"Don't any of you eat the cream cheese right out of the package?"

you bet - I made a cheese ball the other night - and left about 1/4 of the brick in the tin foil wrap - for another time. and I licked the knife!

btw, check out Pioneer Woman's 'cooking' recipe from about a day ago. Multiple chocolate brownies... just click on the 'previous' post.

ah - the PW recipe hasn't been updated yet!

Here is a link that might be useful: PW brownies

Autumn, of course they need to be sampled before serving to anyone else. I mean, they need to be edible, right? My cats sit on the counter stools way more than any humans do.

yes Linelle yes! I sample while in dough form to be sure the mixture is right and they sample in cooked form to make sure the baking is right. A perfect perch and perfect height for them to watch you.

I admire the selflessness I read here on this thread. You are women of stature, brave heart and sacrifice.Sisters of All Things Good. I'm proud to know 'ya.

Notice, speaking of women, there aren't any men participating on this thread? I think JennyBC & Holly Kay said it best when they said their DHs don't get it.

Linelle, I absolutely love that Quality Control Kitty. I have a Pinterest board of funny cat/animal things (not just cute ones - that's nice but boring). I'd like to pin that little picture. You mind? His hopeful little face peering over the counter. Couldn't be funnier or sweeter!

Evidently I can't link to that board alone, but the link to my boards is below, with the kitty book in the 2nd row. You kitty ladies out there might laugh out loud at a lot of my pins, particularly if you think my whining and moaning about The Devil's Work is so darned funny. (You haven't seen the religious symbols of all sorts I've written all over my fridge, have you?). I'm not digressing, but I go back and read them and laugh out loud!

Kompy, I cannot believe I missed cookie dough vodka. I looooove my vodka (but sadly, it hates me). I love Van Gough's Triple Espresso Vodka. It can be sipped (or slammed) and it's a bit sweet. Nummy.

And those oatmeal cookies! I don't know how I missed that. Those would be my next favorite thing in the world. Well, maybe 3rd. There's Steak, then Cookie Dough, then, OK! Ice cream, thEN oatmeal cookies. Perhaps I should just lump them all together -- and EAT THEM?!?

So... My tub is gone. I mourn it. Sadly, I'm also out of food, freezer and all. Comes from being home all month. Another story. However, what bodes badly is that I must go to the grocery store to prepare some vat-o-something to live off of. I'm thinking that sugar cookie mix might just be the ticket. I do love those, too. And molasses cookies. Ok. Cookies. nom nom nom

Right now I'm drinking wine and stripping cabinets. About to start back on the kitchen, since I've almost finished with the MBR. Oh, it's so hard to be me.

Here is a link that might be useful: Christin's Hilarious Pinterest Boards

This post was edited by CEFreeman on Thu, Jan 30, 14 at 19:39

SO very glad there wasn't a recipe for the cream cheese bars on the Prairie Woman's blog. And the ice cream pie. And something else. I CAN NOT EAT MORE OF THAT STUFF until May. All my jeans are the same size, brand and style. If I outgrow one pair, I've outgrown them all. I'm already laying on the bed with my butt higher than my shoulders to get them buttoned. I have to wear them half a day to get them zipped.

lov_mkitchen.
Put 'em on wet.
Uncomfortable, but at least you can zip 'em and you don't forget and answer the door or go to the grocery store looking like an escapee from Wal-Mart with your pants falling down around your knees.

Come to think of it, check out my Wal-Mart board. You just don't want that to be you!

If you read my other thread you may know I just got invisalign. Unfortunately because they are new, my mouth is sore and it hurts to chew some foods. I just came home today with fresh bags of ghirardelli choc. chips. They hurt to much to chew so I opened a fresh tub of vanilla ice cream and added a lot of hershey syrup. Made my teeth feel much better. Of course I flossed and brushed afterward before putting the aligners back in.

So Ice cream is always the answer ; )

Christine, Zephyr has signed a release allowing you to use his likeness. In return he would like your photo to paste on his "cool humans" Pinterest board. In truth, my Facebook page is chockablock with photos of him and his sister.

Ok.
Nothing's fair without a trade.

Now, I just took this. 3 days without a shower, (or combing my hair, which I put up on my head with a 3" nail) painting all day, and when I work I frown. So what you're getting is me, blind as a bat, with a poor woman's botox on her face.
I actually clean up pretty well, but hey. What's an Ugly among friends?

All for the sake of the Quality Control Kitty.
(Oh, God, this is really bad.)

Need a better shot of your earrings!

Has anyone tried these? They have them at my local store, but I have only contemplated them.

I'd also like to add two other things that are wondrous frozen; mini cheesecake bites and ... wait for it ... really decadent, cream cheese frosting.

Long ago I made banana cupcakes with homemade cream cheese frosting for one of the kid's bdays. It was just the family so i froze half the batch, and, separately, froze the cream cheese frosting.

I just happened to take a spoonful ... OMG like ice cream times ten.

The cupcakes looked fine with powdered sugar.

Here is a link that might be useful: Open lid, no spoon reqd, eat

mtnrdrdeux, you're just plain wrong. Wrong to steal all that frosting. Wrong to post those tubes of cookie dough. Wrong to mention cream cheese frosting. How 'bout butter cream!?

"Wrong," she muttered. "Wrong."

Cream cheese frosting...frozen. Oh yes, how could that NOT be good! Love cream cheese frosting, it's the best part of whatever flavor is underneath. Another wonderful thing easily eaten with a spoon (a tablespoon).

Lol-"cupcakes looked fine with powdered sugar" - no one probably ever knew, except for that smudge of frosting on your chin....

mtnrdredux-I have not seen those. I will have to keep a look out for them!

Christine-you look pretty good 3 days no shower girl.

mtnrdredux--what a wonderous find! Wish I had thought of that. Bet they go over big with kids of every age (5- 100). And freezing cream cheese frosting is another dynamite idea I could go for. A double batch would be necessary. one for the item being baked and one for the freezer. :)

Autumn4--yummmmm snickerdoodles!! My sis made a snickerdoodle cake--heaven in a pan and enough to send blood sugar sky high. Self control is non existent.

Put 'em on wet.

Today is the first day it's been above zero for 2 weeks or so..... Wet jeans are not one bit appealing. I'm visualizing frozen jeans. Would I be walking like Frankenstein? Or not able to walk at all? Frozen zipper might not be a good thing. I think new blizzard tomorrow. They seem to be on a loop these days and I'm to the point that I don't know if one's coming or leaving. Oh, weather man says 3 AM Sat. but I didn't catch the amount of snow. This is the 15th windiest winter on record. Whoopie! Cold and wind. My electric company is rolling in it. At least I don't heat with propane!

Last sub-zero day I hung a wet shirt outside, and in ONE MINUTE it froze stiff as a board. So do NOT put on the wet jeans and step out the door! Just stay inside and eat cookie dough, that's all you can do. You need the calories for shoveling. Yeah, that's it.

Christine, Zephyr thinks you're a goddess.

Oh this has been so funny to read - and I mean laughing out loud funny.

Anything ghirardelli is good. I bought some chocolate chips to make ganache and funny thing - I had to go and buy some more to make ganache, but I got smart and bought two bags - one for me and one for the ganache.

I eat cream cheese straight from the package (and yes, I lick the knife).

I had forgotten about the tubs of chocolate chip cookie dough. I use to buy it from Costco when my kids were younger and most of it went straight from the tubs into tummies. But when I discovered that the cookies no longer had chocolate chips in them when baked (I wonder where they went - see ghirardelli story) I stopped buying the tubs and just went straight for the chips.

What is all the hankering about jeans for....we have had 5 snow days in a row - comfy (yoga) pants ladies, comfy pants!

Cream cheese is good. My families favorite dessert includes a a layer of cream cheese mixed with powdered sugar and cool whip. I could eat that right out of the bowl, well I do actually but I could eat the whole bowl instead of the 'extra' I leave.

I started eating chocolate chips out of the bag after I had my first son. It was a long winter. :) He is 11 now - and I still like my chocolate chips!

This post was edited by Autumn.4 on Fri, Jan 31, 14 at 7:08

Alright you crazy cookie dough people.

I stopped at a local bakery to get DH a treat and look at what I saw there.
{{!gwi}}
"What is that cupcake there?" I asked the gal. "That's a cookie dough frosted white chocolate chocolate chip cupcake with cookie dough filling."
So, because of you all and I don't even LIKE cookie dough bye the bye, I bought it. To take a picture of it to post for you all. Nuts.

(Cue "The Stripper" in your head now.)

{{!gwi}}

And here is a naughty shot of the disgustingly sweet cookie dough innards...

{{!gwi}}

Urp. I feel kinda sick now.

Hope you all enjoyed it though!

ok, I just happen to have a tub of choc chunk cookie dough in the freezer and I'm finna try the broiler trick....is that broil on LOW or HIGH?????

Frozen cooky dough is just not appealing to me--I can't eat a runny egg yolk, so the thought of raw egg in dough--ick.

My secret crush is pie filling, straight out of the can, by the soup spoonful. There's an open jar of lemon filling in the fridge right now, calling my name.

And frozen Cool Whip? Ohhh yeahhh, drop chunks of it into chocolate pudding, give it a little stir, and ummmmmmmmm.

Christine, you're my new secret crush. :)

that reminds me of my Grandma's 4-layer dessert.....it's a simple flour crust with pecans, layered with choc pudding then cool whip on top.....yum! (can use other flavored puddings but choc was always what she used)

The broiling depends on your individual oven. Do it so it just gets a light crust, so quicker is probably better as long as it doesn't burn. However, there are no fast rules.

I am rearing another frosting aholic. He is a muffin top eater. He eats the top only and throws the rest away. He also east just the tops of a cupcake with the frosting - the ratio must be better for him that way. I blame it on my continued chocolate chip eating while he was in utero.... The poor first born just got carrots......

deedles-oh yes, I would love to try that. That looks awesome. So did you like it???

illini-yes that's the one. Should have known you would know it since we are from the same 'parts'. It's the flour/pecan/butter crust, cream cheese goodness layer, chocolate pudding then cool whip on top dessert. My kiddos and hubby love it. I must confess it's so rich and I like it but it doesn't like me so I can only have a little bit.

How did your broiling work out?

mama_goose-I can't eat runny eggs either, scrambled or broken yolk fried and fully cooked - almost dry. I bit into a partially done egg mcmuffin in high school and that was it for me. Done forever with egg mcmuffins. That was over 20 years ago. For some reason I can easily mentally block out the raw egg in cookie dough though. Go figure.

----My secret crush is pie filling, straight out of the can, by the soup spoonful.---

I do that too!! But only cherry. And I've been SO good today......and I know there are a couple of cans in the cupboard.........And I am NOT going to open one.

Christine- You look fabulous! Are you sure you're not hosting some HGTV rehab show? I think you've just started a fashion trend...I know I want to try the 3" nail/hair accessory. Can we market that? :)

Is anyone watching Shark Tank tonight? What a coincidence...two,sisters came on looking for investors for their business The Cookie Dough Cafe...edible cookie dough that has no eggs and is meant to be eaten raw, not baked. The investors all agreed it was delicious but one investor thinks they are nuts to think they can sell it. But two of the investors just agreed to do business with them and help them grow the business.They already sell it in 50 Fresh Market grocery stores...so look for it! I have a Fresh Market here so I'm going to look for it next time I go. It's pricey though...$6.99 for a pint.

I swear you can't taste raw egg in cookie dough. Although a runny white in a fried egg is revolting, I can easily eat beaten egg whites with sugar (raw meringue). It must be the change in texture.

I dare not buy a tub of frozen cookie dough. Besides, is it made with butter? If it's not, it ain't worth eating raw.

well it was good but next time I would keep a closer eye as my tops got a tad brown.....4 minutes under the broiler = too much. however they were still yummy. let them set on the hot pans for a while and the insides cook just a bit longer (I like them ooey gooey but not raw raw).

This must be the trick to avoid flat cookies. I struggle with the flat cookie syndrome. These cookies i made tonight were heaping!

Okay, stop the yucky parts of eggs discussion and let's get back to cookie dough, ice cream, chocolate, pie crust, cream cheese, vodka, pie crust filling & oreos.
Last night, 1am, I was lying in bed & the cookie dough that has been in my basement freezer for over a year was calling me. That's never happened before!
Linelle, love this picture!

Finally made it to the grocery store yesterday and thanks to this thread managed to find 3 bags of chocolate chips in my cart! Regular, mini's and chunks. Oy.

Linelle-I'm with you on butter-real butter.

My 'imaginary friend' when I was a kid was named Davey Butter....hmmm wonder why. He was always to blame when there was a finger swipe out of the stick of butter. Naughty Davey, naughty! My kids get a kick out of that and sadly yes it's true.

illini-always on a quest for the perfect cookie. I try new recipes all the time and always trying to achieve the perfect texture and height. :) Very good description - tender crisp (not just for vegetables) on the outside and soft and chewy in the middle.

The cookies that Zephyr (quality control guy) is inspecting turned out just right, not flat, not cakey, but divinely chewy. It was the recipe from America's Test Kitchen where you brown the butter and then go through these stirring/sitting gyrations. It was one of those recipes that works great the first time, and then never again.

I'm now using a modified version of the recipe (no more melted butter) but find it's not always possible to get the same results. I always chill the dough several hours or overnight in the fridge (snack time!!!) and put the cold blobs of dough straight on the cookie sheets. But last time they flattened and it made me a little sad. But, I ended up freezing them and discovered the deliciousness of frozen cookies.

BTW, 10-yr. old, low-end Kenmore stove, all gas, no convection (what is that, anyway?).

At Thanksgiving I bought some Extra Creamy Cool Whip (With Real Cream!!) for the pumpkin pie in case anyone wanted it, which they didn't, so that's why it was sitting in my fridge. The more this thread went on, the more I got up from my computer to grab a spoonful or two. Yesterday I decided to finish it and get it out of my life. I purposely did not look at the calories because who wants to ruin a perfectly delicious experience?

Today I decided I could handle the truth. 2 Tablespoons are a mere 25 calories? Isn't that like celery or cucumbers? Nevermind the fat and gross ingredients. I was shocked that it was so low in calories, maybe because it's mostly air?

Just want to say raw cookie dough is where it pays off to be vegan. No worries of raw eggs and salmonella. Here's a good recipe for cookies eaten raw or baked. Again taken from the ppk website :

Chocolate Chip Cookies
Makes two dozen two inch cookies or about 16 three inch cookies

1/2 brown sugar
1/4 white sugar
2/3 cup canola oil
1/4 cup unsweetened almond milk (or your favorite non-dairy milk)
1 tablespoon tapioca flour
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract

1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt

3/4 cups chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350 F. Lightly grease two large light metal baking sheets.

Mix together sugars, oil, milk and tapioca flour in a mixing bowl. Use a strong fork and mix really well, for about 2 minutes, until it resembles smooth caramel. There is a chemical reaction when sugar and oil collide, so itâÂÂs important that you donâÂÂt get lazy about that step. Mix in the vanilla.

Add 1 cup of the flour, the baking soda and salt. Mix until well incorporated. Mix in the rest of the flour. Fold in the chocolate chips. The dough will be a little stuff so use your hands to really work them in.

For 3 inch cookies, roll the dough into about ping pong ball size balls. Flatten them out in your hands to about 2 1/2 inches. They will spread just a bit. Place on a baking sheet and bake for about 8 minutes �" no more than 9 �" until they are just a little browned around the edges. I usually get 16 out of these so I do two rounds of eight cookies. Let cool on the baking sheet for about 5 minutes then transfer to a cooling rack.

For 2 dozen two inch cookies roll dough into walnut sized balls and flatten to about 1 1/2 inches and bake for only six minutes.

Here is a link that might be useful: Cookies

I'd make mine out of denim!

Here is a link that might be useful: Problem solved!

So at 25 calories and 2 grams of fat per serving, I can have, oh, lots of servings! I have "Original" in my fridge ( I never buy it, but if have some jello I need to use up, and there's a recipe, so...) and the original is only 1.5 grams of fat. So I can have more than you, Linelle ;)

I just happened to notice on a package of ready-to-bake cookie dough, in capital letters: "PLEASE DO NOT EAT RAW COOKIE DOUGH" Do they really think anyone pays attention to that???!!! What a joke!

Here is a recipe for monster cookie dough dip. I thought you cookie dough lovers would like it.

edited: I really wanted to post the photo of it but its not working for me. If anyone can post it, its great to look at, LOL.

Here is a link that might be useful: monster cookie dough dip

This post was edited by debrak2008 on Tue, Feb 18, 14 at 19:23

Curse you GW! I've got a gnawing in my stomach right now and would kill for some cookie dough.

debra, the only problems are 1) peanut butter and 2) no raw egg.

I love peanut butter, truly I do. I eat it out of the jar by the spoonful, but it has no place in a chocolate chip cookie, let alone the dough.

I know raw eggs are supposed to be the evil ingredient, but it's what gives it the right texture and raw doughy goodness.

I hope you raw-egg-phobic people don't eat salad dressings in restaurants.

Linelle, haven't you ever heard of egg beaters? Not only are they eggs, but they're pasteurized! That's another restaurant trick. It's less $$ and stays better than eggs. So for some recipes, even scrambled eggs in buffets, they're liquid eggs. Liquid eggs also don't turn greenish from the steel pans.

There. The secret is out. Life large, ladies.

Debrak2008, I thank you. I see my own ingredients such as walnuts and maybe raisins. Ohhhh.... does that sound delicious. I think I'll even save my cookie dough container to put this in. How perfect could that be!?

Christine, yes, I've heard of egg beaters. :p Never tried them. Does that mean if I want to make half a recipe of something that uses one egg, egg beaters would work? Other than when you need a separated egg, can they be used anywhere beating or scrambling occurs?

Linelle, I'm so lazy I don't even buy eggs anymore.
There's an equivalent chart on the container. They come in little milk carton-like containers.

I've bought the egg whites and the egg beaters. You're right that you can't separate the egg beaters, of course. If you chose, you could do what my sister does: She pours the egg white-beaters into ice cube trays and freezes them. Then, tosses them into a zip lock and puts them in her big freezer. She bakes, so this evidently works just fine.

Anywhere you're going to use a beaten egg, you can use these. 'Beaters.
I eat the egg beaters for scrambled and French toast mostly.

I just thought of something lazier: I buy bags of hard boiled Eggland's Best eggs. I don't even boil the little stinkers. I just mash them into things.

I think I'll buy some and give them a whirl. I'm very fussy about the texture of scrambled eggs, but they might be awesome for certain recipes.

Hysterical thread -- I am a cookie dough fiend. Here's a healthy substitute (ok, it's not as good as the real thing, but it's close and my kids love them). I keep them in the freezer (and eat directly from freezer) and usually substitute walnuts for the cashews.

Healthy cookie dough balls

2/3 c raw cashews
1/3 c oats (I use Bob's gluten free oatmeal)
2 Tbsp Agave
1 Tbsp Maple Syrup (Omit and use Agave to preserve true Raw Status if you care)
1 Tsp Vanilla Extract (can sub maple)
1/4 c Chocolate Chips (or to preserve true raw status, take 2 Tbsp Raw Cocoa Powder and add 1 Tbsp Agave, optional dash of vanilla extract, whisk and blend. Spread into a thin layer on wax or parchment paper, freeze. Take frozen chocolate off parchment and crumble the shreds into the mixture as your raw "chips".)

Blend the cashews and oats in a food processor, or high speed blender until they're a fine powder. Don't overblend or you'll wind up with cashew butter very quickly.

Add the agave, maple, vanilla and blend until incorporated. Be careful to just blend in short bursts and only until combined; don't over-process.

Stir in the chocolate chips by hand.

Form into balls and serve. If dough is sticky, chilling it in the refrigerator or flash-chilling it in the freezer helps make it easier to work with.

http://www.averiecooks.com/2009/10/raw-vegan-chocolate-chip-cookie-dough.html/print/

I love raw cookie dough. In fact when I was a teenager I used to make a quarter batch of choc chip cookies and eat the entire bowl after school, but before the 'rents got home from work. I would wash all the evidence, and none was the wiser. Well, not until it was time to make cookies, and then it was "Where on earth are the chocolate chips?" Hee hee. I have to be honest, though, the commercially prepared raw cookie dough is just not my favorite. I really am a cookie dough snob. I want mine made from scratch. And with real butter.

I do not limit myself to choc chip dough, though. I love sugar cookie dough, and spritz cookie dough does not all make it into the cookie press. It really is a shame how the dough sticks to the insides of the press, and I have to dig it out with my finger. I just hate when that happens.

One of my favorite treats--and I am amazed that no one brought up this one-- is about 5-10 (or 20) of those delectable frozen cream puffs. The ones with the "real" whipped cream. Holy moly, those are wonderful! I take them out of the freezer, set them on the counter to let them thaw just a teensy bit, and pop them into my mouth, one by one... nom nom nom. My youngest has discovered my secret stash in the freezer, so I have to be much better at burying it in there. ;)

shelayne, I love your purist sensibilities. I wouldn't say no to store-bought dough, but I agree, it has to be real butter and real vanilla.

When I was a preteen I once found a freshly baked pan of blonde brownies stashed in the kitchen linens drawer. I rescued them and ate about 2/3 of the entire pan. Apparently they had been hidden (not very well) to escape my detection for some ladies' function my mom was hosting. My sense of smell did not let me down. My punishment was to make a replacement batch on the spot, with plenty of raw blondies to consume along the way.

LOL, linelle, you were like Brer Rabbit, "Oh no, please do NOT make me whip up another batch of blondies. Oh please, NO!"

Heeeeee!

Heeeeee, Shelayne. Yes, it was not the worst thing that ever happened to me.