Edible Gluten-Free Cookie Dough (Dairy Free Option)

If you love raw cookie dough, you’ll love this recipe for gluten-free edible cookie dough. This recipe is meant to be enjoyed raw (uncooked), and there’s no gritty aftertaste. This post contains affiliate links. Please see my disclosures.

I love cookie dough, but I haven’t had it in so long because I have celiac disease. People with celiac disease are forbidden from eating gluten, a protein found in wheat, rye, barley, and sometimes oats.

I’ve tried many gluten-free cookie dough recipes over the years, but I’ve never settled on one that I liked enough to share with you… until today.

Admittingly, I’m a bit of a cookie dough snob, so my cookie dough recipe needed to have the right taste and texture to pass the test. No one wants to eat grainy and gritty cookie dough!

My cookie dough recipe offers up a smooth dough with the perfect taste and texture.

And remember, this recipe requires no baking. In fact, you shouldn’t bake these “cookies.”

These cookie dough balls are meant to be enjoyed raw. They don’t include eggs, baking soda, or any leavening agents. If you bake them, they will literally fall flat!

Making Gluten-Free Cookie Dough

The star ingredient of this recipe is smooth gluten-free oat flour, which is a fantastic flour to use in gluten-free recipes because of its smooth and silky texture and mild taste. Bob’s Red Mill gluten-free oat flour is my preferred brand.

To make these gluten-free chocolate chip cookie dough balls, you’ll need the following ingredients:

• 1 & 1/2 cups gluten-free oat flour
• 1/3 cup granulated sugar
• 1/3 cup light brown sugar, packed
• 1/4 tsp kosher salt
• 6 Tbsp unsalted dairy-free butter, softened and at room temperature
• 1 Tbsp vanilla extract
• 1/3 cup mini chocolate chips, about 3 ounces
• 2 Tbsp dairy-free milk (more if needed)

First, combine the gluten-free oat flour, granulated sugar, brown sugar, and salt in a large bowl.

Then add the softened (not melted) dairy-free butter, vanilla extract, and 2 tablespoons of dairy-free milk of choice. Mix all the ingredients together using your hands, a wooden spoon, or a hand mixer. I personally find using my hands helps the dough come together better.

Add another tablespoon of dairy-free milk to help the dough hold together if needed. Once the dough is a good consistency, add the chocolate chips and continue to work the dough until well combined.

I used mini-chocolate chips by Enjoy Life and think they work perfectly in this recipe. They’re vegan, dairy-free, and gluten-free. You could also use regular-sized chocolate chips.

Once the mixture is combined, roll the dough into 1.5-inch balls and place each ball on a serving dish or baking sheet. You’ll have enough dough for about 14-16 balls, depending on how large or small you roll them.

Refrigerate the dough balls for 30 minutes or until firm, then store them in a resealable container in the fridge until they’re gone.

Pace yourself. These delicious dough balls go fast – but remember, just because they’re gluten-free doesn’t mean they’re calorie-free or sugar-free.

The Taste Test

These gluten-free chocolate chip cookie dough balls are the real deal. They’re smooth in texture, sweet in taste, and have no grainy aftertaste either.

Oh, cookie dough, I have missed you so much. Thank goodness you’re back in my life!

FAQs

Here are a few tips for making successful gluten-free cookie dough:

Butter: You can use regular butter or a vegan butter substitute, like Earth Balance, if you want to make this recipe dairy-free.

Chocolate chips: I recommend using mini-chocolate chips from Enjoy Life.

Milk: You can use regular cow’s milk or keep it dairy-free by using almond milk, soy milk, or cashew milk.

Can’t find gluten-free oat flour? Gluten-free oat flour is hard to find at local grocery stores. Order it online or make your own. Here’s my oat flour recipe.

Store-Bought Cookie Dough

Love cookie dough but don’t want to make your own? Try these brands of edible cookie dough:

(1) Better Bites makes gluten-free cookie dough covered in chocolate. Find them in the frozen foods section or on Amazon via Whole Foods.

(2) Sweet Loren’s makes edible cookie dough using gluten-free oat flour, palm oil, and molasses. You can find Sweet Loren’s on Amazon via Whole Foods.

I tested several brands of gluten-free cookie dough and share my results in my article, Which Gluten-Free Cookie Dough Brand Is the Best?

More Recipes

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• Chickpea Cookie Dough – Healthy and Low Calorie
• Classic Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Easy Almond Flour Chocolate Chip Muffins
• Easy Paleo Chocolate Mug Cake