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| My picture of the egg aisle in a Paris grocery. |
My pregnancy diet and my non-pregnancy diet are not much different. I don't regularly eat many of the things "they" tell pregnant women not to eat - with one exception - raw eggs in cookie dough. I love cookie dough so much more than the actual cookies themselves, but the raw eggs scare me enough to make me not eat cookie dough while pregnant. I know that people have differing view points on raw eggs. When we were honeymooning in Paris, they kept the eggs in the regular food aisles - not refrigerated at all! It's my understanding that it's because their eggs go onto the shelves fresher than in America. Anyway, it's not a risk I'm taking just to eat some cookie dough, so I made the cookie dough egg free! These are also good if you want some cookie taste without turning on the oven on a hot day!
Eggless Cookie Dough Recipe
(Note: these are not for baking - just for eating refrigerated)
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened
- Heaping 1/3 cup sugar (I just don't level the measuring cup)
- Heaping 1/3 cup brown sugar
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 1 1/8 cup flour (I just fill 1/2 of a 1/4c. with flour)
- 1/2 tsp. baking soda
- 1/2 tsp. salt (slightly less if you use salted butter)
- 1 c. chocolate chips
- 2 TBSP milk
Cream butter, sugar, and vanilla. I cream them for a long time.
Add the flour, salt, and baking powder. The baking powder isn't really necessary because the cookie dough doesn't need any help rising, but for taste purposes, I add it in. Blend it all together.
Add the 2 tablespoons milk. You might need to add slightly less or more, depending on your location. Two usually works for me!
When the dough is a good consistency, add the chocolate chips.
Mix it all together!
Place spoonfuls on a cookie sheet and refrigerate or freeze.
Enjoy!
Now, I might have to go make some more!
