We Tried 23 Brands of Edible Cookie Dough and These Are the Best
There are two types of people: those who can’t help but taste the raw cookie dough when they’re making cookies, and those who don’t eat cookies. Edible cookie dough is nothing new (its popularity in ice cream will forever stand the test of time), and these days there are a ton of different brands competing for sales in the snack department. Who to choose? Where to start? We tasted 23 different brands of edible cookie dough for you and ranked them from worst to best.
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Buy from Edoughble
Once you’ve finally pried open the lid of your Edoughble Chocolate Chip off the Ol’ Block, your hands battered from the maliciously sharp plastic, you’ve arrived at what should be their flagship flavor: classic chocolate chip. It’s quite bland at first, but then it becomes sort of sour, but then after that it suddenly tastes metallic, and then just like full-on blood. This is more like a magic trick than a food. Don’t eat any.
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Buy from Target
These bites are a much more approachable size than most of the baked-or-raw options, but there’s only one thing here that you can really taste. And that’s unfortunate, because that thing is flour. Pillsbury might be claiming this is a sugar cookie, but it’s a tiny little mound of flour that they’re pranking you into eating. That’s the only logical explanation.
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Buy from Whole Foods
We take no pleasure in this, but the fact is, sometimes life just ain’t fair. Cappello’s has done a respectable job with their almond flour cookie dough, and even more respectable is their cutesy little idea that anybody would ever want to snack on it raw. Almond flour doesn’t make for a great cookie, and that’s just sort of the way things are. Is it a solid vegan cookie? Sure. Is it anywhere near the snack you’re craving? No. It’s just not. Just bake the thing. You don’t need to be out here eating raw almond flour.
Buy from Edoughble
People are either craving a snickerdoodle, or they’re craving a bite of cookie dough. It’s rarely both, but that’s not Edoughble’s opinion. There’s a slight hint of cinnamon, but for the most part this feels like a clunky mashup of ice cream and cookie dough. It’s just one of those things where if you want a snickerdoodle, get a snickerdoodle.
Buy from Instacart
We can’t fully hate the idea that Bubbies Hawaii, a brand known for mochi ice cream, has cooked up here. To take the mochi ice cream route and stuff cookie dough with chocolate chip ice cream is a great call. Unfortunately, this dough tastes like a strange, grainy mixture of cookie dough and mochi, and that simply doesn’t work. It’s got that gummy texture that almost reminds you of cookie dough that isn’t too well-mixed. Smart idea. Poor execution.
Buy from Edoughble
If you’re in the edible cookie dough game, there comes a time when you need to ask yourself a question, and it’s one that we’re afraid Edoughble has never actually considered: what are we even doing here? With s’mores-style edible cookie dough, we have gotten a little far away from the point at hand. S’mores aren’t even cookies, really. These products are stored in the fridge, which means they are served cold. So what you’re eating is cold cookie dough, cold graham crackers, and cold marshmallows even though they’re still very soft and easily pulled apart. We don’t even know what this is anymore. If cozying up by the snowman with an ice cold s’mores in your hand is your happy place, we found a great cookie dough for you. If you’re like the rest of us, move on.
Buy from Amazon
Despite the semi-low ranking, it’s important to note that we’re impressed with Deux. The products are far tastier than your average vegan alternative, but the hard truth is that it’s still tough to match the flavor of non-vegan cookies. Deux’s Birthday Cake is tasty enough (helped a great deal by the sprinkles), but suffers from an extreme stickiness that gets real old, real fast.
Buy from The Cookie Dough Cafe
This is exactly what you might expect, if what you expect is The Cookie Dough Cafe’s standard flavor, stuffed with Oreo pieces. While the Cafe’s chocolate chips still shine, we are faced with an overload of the Oreo-without-filling situation. This results in dueling chocolate textures and flavors, and creates a cookie dough that is far too sweet, and ultimately, just tastes like fake food.
Buy from Edoughble
So, here’s the deal with Edoughble. If you’ve ordered a variety pack, you’re going to need metal hands like Dr. No to open the containers, because of the razor-sharp plastic that surrounds the top. We have never been in such pain from opening a piece of food. Beyond that, this isn’t very good and if you’re looking for less of a mystery mound-style food, skip this.
Buy from Amazon
This is about as middle-of-the-road as we’re gonna get here. We’ve gotta keep in mind that these are vegan cookies and the flavor is never going to match up to that of a non-vegan cookie. It’s simply the way of the world. While Deux is doing a great job with an awesome chocolate chip crunch, the rest just leaves you with that vegan cookie feeling that only butter can solve.
Buy from Instacart
With this Oreo-collab cookie dough, Pillsbury is bringing the heat when it comes to size. It is also bringing the heat in the how-can-you-eat-more-than-one department. The issue here, as is the issue with most Oreo-based things, is that the balance is all wrong. This is mostly chocolate cookie bits, and when we think of Oreo, we think of the cosmically wonderful white filling the cookies are known for. With only a dash of that filling, this feels more like a chocolate cookie. That’s not bad, but it’s not Oreo.
Buy from Target
Hard as a diamond, muddy brown, and gluten-free. This is what you’re getting with Sweet Loren’s Chocolate Chunk, which you can also bake if you choose. Like some of Loren’s other ventures, this is as arid as a desert, but despite the color, texture, and dryness, it all ends up tasting not so bad. None of this makes sense. There are better brands out there.
Buy from Instacart
When you crave cookie dough, do you crave sugar cookie dough? And if you crave sugar cookie dough, do you crave a scone-like consistency? And if you crave that scone-like consistency, do you crave a scone on the dryer side, with nary an ounce of moisture to be found? If the answers to these questions are no, go ahead and steer clear.
Buy from Amazon
Congratulations are in order for Deux, because landing in the Top 10 is always an impressive feat for any “healthy” version of a snack food. Let’s start from the beginning: visually, this is a delight. It looks moist and brownie-esque, so much so that we involuntarily took a gigantic bite at first. It looks that good. Because you’re dealing with Deux, you’ll see a grip of health-conscious words, like “vegan” and “gluten-free” and “collagen support”. The flavor is what you’d expect, a typical vegan dessert alternative that will make you scratch your head wondering exactly what’s missing (the answer, as always, is butter, cream, and fat). It’s tasty though, and we can’t see anybody topping it in the vegan dough world.
Buy from Target
Sweet Loren kind of beat herself at her own game on this one. Her fudgy brownie flavor tastes just like a fudgy brownie, and that ends up being the biggest problem. You don’t want to take a hardened, circular piece of fudgy brownie out of the fridge and eat it. This is the type of rich, chocolatey dessert that should be served warm, preferably with some whipped cream or a scoop of vanilla ice cream, and yeah, maybe some fresh berries. It doesn’t really work this way.
Buy from The Cookie Dough Cafe
When it comes to ranking different brands of edible chocolate chip cookie dough, the differences can be minute. This is a texture and chocolate chip battle at this point, and Nestlé’s chips and texture are better. While the Cookie Dough Cafe’s flavors are in the right place, it’s a bit too eggy and has an unsettling richness so you really can’t take more than a few bites. This will scratch the itch if you’ve got a craving, but this is a big, wide world, and there are bigger and wider things out there.
Buy from Edoughble
This isn’t Edoughble’s worst crime by a long shot. This brand has just as high a ceiling as they do a low floor, but of all the brownie-style, chocolate-forward cookie doughs, this is the best. This is a lot like an inverse cookies & cream flavor, where the chocolate cookie flavor is speckled with creaminess. This is a well-done job from Edoughble, and it’s a shame that the brand’s other flavors don’t reach these heights.
Buy from Instacart
EatPastry certainly seems to think this is a snack, seeing that the brand is selling this in single-serving cups. The issue is, as we’ve previously mentioned, this serving size is simply preposterous. You’re cut from a stronger cloth than us if you can put away an entire cup of cookie dough. That said, EatPastry has a nice, smooth consistency absolutely packed with chocolate chips.
Buy from Target
These are some big, honkin’ cookie-dough pieces. If you can eat more than one of ‘em, bless your heart. Fear not the size though, or even the slightly beige color. Pillsbury has the best Birthday Cake variety you can find, boasting a richness and depth of cookie dough taste that none of the others can match. The sprinkles are a nice touch too, and help to bring some crunch into the holes that the ghosts of chocolate chips have left behind.
Buy from Target
Toll House hasn’t done anything wrong here, so don’t let the outside-top-3 ranking discourage you. The cookie dough is milky, buttery, sugary, and really tastes homemade, almost like a scoop of ice cream. The problem here is that this makes a better cookie than it does a piece of edible dough. As evidenced by the brand’s elite-level ice cream sandwich, it has got quite a recipe on its hands.
Buy from Target
Pillsbury is up to some very confusing stuff. As it says on the package, this dough has the dual option of being baked or eaten raw. It seems that on principle alone, one of the two would have to be sacrificed for this to work, but the cookie dough actually functions quite nicely. Pillsbury’s chocolate chips are probably the best you’ll find in any cookie dough; big, toothsome, crunchy things. And is that a little bit of salt that we detect? Pillsbury, you Jacques Torres, you. It’s easy to put many pieces of dough away before realizing that each mound is the equivalent of an entire cookie, so proceed with caution.
Buy from Doughp
It’s true, Ben & Jerry’s gets the edge for snackability. But perhaps you’re not reading this for snackability. Perhaps you’re reading this because you want to do it, the ultimate naughty thing: you want to chow down on some raw cookie dough that’s supposed to be meant for the oven. You were told not to, but you just can’t seem to help yourself. If you are this person, then Doughp is for you. The taste is indistinguishable from cookie dough in its pure, raw form. Speckled with the perfect amount of chocolate chips, it’s also got a texture that feels spot on. While so many other brands taste doughy or floury, Doughp tastes like brown butter and crunchy chocolate. The “Shark Tank” sensation is the real deal, and you need some in your fridge.
Buy from Target
No notes, Ben & Jerry’s. The key to the brand’s success is really all right there in the name: this truly feels like a snack. Most of the cookie doughs we tasted were extremely decadent and heavy. Even served in individual snack-sized portions, it’s impossible to understand how anybody could eat that amount of cookie dough. Yet with B&J, they’ve made tiny little nuggies for you to pop into your mouth. They’re small enough that you might even go for a few at a time, and they’ve got the sharp, unmistakable crunch of pure sugar crystals. The truth is, Ben & Jerry’s is no stranger to the edible cookie dough game. In fact, those two wacky Vermont boys have been slinging their dough for so long that it’s a huge part of why they’re so very beloved. Perhaps there will be a day when a challenger comes for their Cookie Dough Crown. But it is not this day.
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