Cookie Dough Bites

Cookie dough bites are a fun candy to make any time you want a taste of the sweetest part of the holiday season- cookie dough! These are safe to eat with no raw eggs and so yummy!

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Here on my blog and on the Hallmark Channel, it’s Christmas in July, which is basically just an excuse for me to make some of my favorite holiday treats in the summer time and make them more appropriate for summer time. Like these cookie dough bites which I finished up while watching a Hallmark Christmas movie.

Sidebar: can we talk about my deep seated love of these movies? It’s intense.

They are just so stinking predictably happy. The way life should be. 

And I have some super fond memories of these that don’t involve ugly crying onto my newborn’s head (which I totally did the year Goose was born). Friday night, Goose woke up from a very long nap cranky and miserable. She sat on my lap and watched one of the movies with me, and actually liked it.

In the movie we watched, a woman got into a car accident with a reindeer. Yes, I know. Really, I do. But this 30 second scene made a huge impression on my child, and she talked about it the rest of the night and has actually been requesting to watch the reindeer lady movie.

Back to the candy.

The cookie dough is basically the dough from my skillet chocolate chip cookie with a couple tablespoons of milk added in and no eggs. Then to top it all off, I dipped the dough balls in chocolate. Because chocolate. After all, it’s sort of the holidays, so calories don’t count. And then just for fun, bling these treats out with sprinkles. Because sprinkles!

While, yes, it’s true the finished cookies and bars are delish, my favorite part of cookie making is eating the raw dough. So why not turn that dough into safe to eat candy?

Safe to Eat Cookie Dough Candies

These cookie dough bites have no eggs and the flour is zapped in the microwave prior to making the dough making them perfectly safe to eat. Not that raw egg or flour in cookie dough has ever stopped me before.

Because raw cookie dough should be its own food group. Yum!

Ingredients

To make this eggless cookie dough candy, you need:

• Butter– softened unsalted butter
• Sugar– both brown and granulated sugars
• Milk
• Vanilla
• Flour
• Salt
• Chocolate chips– both mini and regular
• Sprinkles– optional I guess but hello sprinkles!!

How to Make

1. Prepare the flour and let it cool.
   Place the flour in a microwave safe bowl. Zap in microwave for 30 seconds. Let it cool and set aside.
2. Make the dough.
   In a stand mixer cream together the butter, sugars, vanilla, and milk. Beat it until the mixture is light and fluffy. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour and salt. Then add about a third of the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients, and mix until combined. Repeat two more times with the rest of the dry ingredients. Mix until combined. Now, stir in the mini chocolate chips.
3. Make the dough balls.

   

   Roll equal sized balls of dough and place them on a sheet of wax paper or parchment paper lined cookie sheet. Cover them well with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1-2 hours or until firm.

4. Dunk the bites in chocolate.

   

   After the cookie dough centers have been refrigerated, melt 2 cups of chocolate chips in microwave by microwaving for 15 seconds at a time and stirring. Repeat this until chocolate is smooth. Then dip the dough bites into the melted chocolate and place on wax paper. Sprinkle with sprinkles to bling them out in festive cheer. Let cool in fridge. Chill until ready to serve. Enjoy!

How to Serve: Make them part of your holiday dessert spread!

If you are like me, you put out a huge amount of cookies and candy during the holidays.

My spread normally includes a few homemade candies including these cookie dough candies and I often make chocolate peanut butter bars and homemade chocolate truffles as well. I serve them all along side the best chocolate chip cookies and these sugar cookies. 

It’s a knock your socks of with holiday cheer kind of situation you should definitely try!

A Lovely Food Gift

These candies are perfect for gifting too! If I give them as gifts, I like to put them in pretty candy wrappers and store them in a small, festive tin. No one would be sad about getting them!

Tips and Tricks

• To make them more or less the same size, use a cookie dough scoop. 
• Take care not to burn the chocolate when you melt it.
• If you find the chocolate is too thick when you melt it, stir in a tablespoon of coconut oil to thin it out and make it shiny.
• Feel free to switch up the kind of chocolate you use. These used semi sweet chocolate, but you could use milk, dark or white. Whatever you like!

Other Christmas in July Recipes

Looking for last year’s Christmas in July ideas? Check them out below:

• Frozen Hot Chocolate Floats
• Cranberry Barbecue Ribs
• Easy Frozen Pumpkin Mousse Pie

Cookie Dough Bites

Cookie dough bites are a fun candy to make any time you want a taste of the sweetest part of the holiday season- cookie dough! These are safe to eat with no raw eggs and so yummy!

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Prep Time: 15 minutes minutes

Total Time: 15 minutes minutes

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings: 18 -21 bites

Author: Seasoned Sprinkles

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup of softened butter
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup of packed light brown sugar
• 1 1/2 tbs of milk
• 1 1/4 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 1/4 cup flour*
• 1/3 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 cups of mini chocolate chips
• 2 cups of chocolate chips

Instructions

• Place the flour in a microwave safe bowl. Zap in microwave for 30 seconds. Let cool.
• In a stand mixer cream together the butter, sugars, vanilla, and milk. Beat until the mixture is light and fluffy.
• In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour and salt.
• Add about a third of the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients, and mix until combined. Repeat two more times with the rest of the dry ingredients. Mix until combined.
• Fold in the mini chocolate chips.
• Form balls of dough and refrigerate for 1-2 hours or until firm.
• After the balls have been refrigerated, melt 2 cups of chocolate chips in microwave by microwaving for 15 seconds at a time and stirring. Repeat until chocolate is smooth.
• Dip the balls into the melted chocolate and place on wax paper. Sprinkle with sprinkles if desired. Let cool in fridge. Chill until ready to serve.

Notes

*Use gluten free all purpose flour if desired

Nutrition

Serving: 18-21 bites

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