Best tasting raw chocolate chip cookie dough?

[shivohum]

Anyone have any opinions on the best tasting chocolate chip cookie dough *before* it gets put in the oven?

[jjones21]

I hope you are using pasteurized eggs! Remember, raw eggs -- even if they are mixed into a dough or batter -- can be dangerous.

[pepper_mil]

What an interesting question. Don't have a recipe, but my thoughts are that a strong vanilla flavour makes the best tasting dough and you can only get this with real vanilla bean, allowed to infuse into the dough for a day or so. I would also use a chocolate that is more for eating than cooking to get the real melt in your mouth quality.

[Katie Nell]

All of that and a little bit of extra salt! I would also go higher on the brown sugar, but that might be a matter of personal taste.

[brownie]

Alton Brown's the Thick and Chewy (i think that's its name) makes some pretty tasty dough for eatin'. Should just be on the Food Network's website, or if you search the boards, as it's been posted before

[shivohum]

I've tried it, and it does make good cookie dough. But there's a little too much brown sugar in there for me for raw cookie dough, I think. I think I like a higher ratio of white sugar in there...

[brownie]

actually, one of my other longtime faves for just plain eating is definitely the recipe on the back of Nestle's chips bag. I always just make 1/2 the recipe and then usually use only 1/2 stick of butter, not a whole one. Does change the texture, but makes for less guilt in the guilty pleasure ;)

[flourgirl]

I guess I'm in the minority here but I have never understood the attraction of raw cookie dough.

[sweetpotater]

Jeffrey Steingarten's recipe from It Must've Been Something I Ate. I can post recipe if you'd like. I keep this dough in the freezer for my husband and it rarely makes it into the oven.

[shivohum]

I'd love the recipe. Thanks.

[sweetpotater]

Oven to 375. Mix 2 c flour, 1 t salt, 1 t baking soda in bowl. In mixer, cream 2 sticks unsalted butter, 3/4 c light brown sugar, 1/4 c dark brown sugar, 3/4 c white sugar. Add 1 t vanilla, 2 T water and 1 egg. Beat in flour mixture, then stir in chocolate chips. Drop onto nonstick baking sheet in rounded teaspoons; bake about 10 minutes.

[miss louella]

No specific favorite recipe, but I can advise you to leave out the baking soda or other leavening. No need to have all that baking soda action in your belly instead of in your baking process.