Sugar Cookie Dough Frosting

If you are a cookie dough lover, this sugar cookie dough frosting is for you. It is basically safe to eat sugar cookie dough in frosting form and it’s as good as it sounds.

When it comes to cookies, the dough is often one of the best parts. So why not tweak the recipe a bit and turn it into frosting?

This sugar cookie dough frosting does just that! It’s egg free and super delicious, plus you can use it to decorate cakes and cupcakes.

I think by now we all know that playing with different frosting recipes is one of my favorite things to do. There are just so many fun frosting ideas out there and not enough time!!

I had been toying with the idea of starting to make edible raw cookie dough.  I know there are shops that sell it by the scoop, like an ice cream shop.

But in my smaller Midwestern town, nothing like that exists. Maybe I should open a shop!

In the meantime, I thought it would be fun to experiment a bit at home.  There are a couple of keys to making edible cookie dough.

The first is obviously the eggs.  I am sure most of us have eaten raw cookie dough, eggs and all, and never gotten sick.

The eggs in cookie dough help to bind the final baked cookie and sometimes offer a bit of rise. 

We need neither of those things when the dough is the final product, so it makes the most sense to leave the eggs out. That mitigates that risk.

Flour is also a potential source of contamination.  Now you can’t exactly leave the flour out of the cookie dough and expect it to taste like dough… so we bake the flour first.

A quick trip to the oven helps kill off any bacteria that may be present.  You can certainly skip this step, but it is easy so it seems worth doing to be safe.

Now you could easily eat this with a spoon and call it a day.  OR….. you could use it as a frosting and but it on some cupcakes for that one two dessert punch!

It is easy to make. After the flour has had a chance to cool down, you are ready to go.  The flour obviously really gives it that cookie dough flavor.

Also, instead of powdered sugar, you use granulated sugar to give it that slightly grainy feel you would get in a cookie dough.  It isn’t too sandy, but just enough to give you the right texture.

I thought it would be fun to make the frosting a lavender color for spring.  I added a few drops each of natural red and blue food colorings.

In hindsight, I wish I had used a few more drops. The color was pretty in person but definitely muted so it doesn’t necessarily show as well as I would have liked in the pictures. Next time I’ll get it right!

I have to say I really loved using the cookie dough as a frosting.  I did loosen it up a bit more than I would if I had served it as a dough on its own.  That helped make it a little easier to pipe.

Otherwise the flavor and texture was spot on for sugar cookie dough! It was hard to not eat it right off the top of the cupcakes!

Have you ever tried to make a food-safe cookie dough? What were your results? Also, what is your favorite kind of cookie dough?