Cookie dough

Cookie dough can be made at home or bought pre-made in packs (frozen logs, buckets, etc.).

Dessert products containing cookie dough include ice cream and candy.

When made at home, common ingredients include flour, butter, white sugar, salt, vanilla extract, and eggs.

They evolved into Biscuits for convenience as they were easier to keep fresh for a longer period and were simple to carry for travel.

Ruth Graves Wakefield and Sue Brides owned the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts, where they created the eponymous chocolate chip cookie in 1938.

[3][4][5] Cookie dough should be placed in the freezer, but it is considered safe to consume if left out in the open for 2–4 hours.

For example, raw flour was found to be the culprit in a June 2009 E. coli outbreak involving Nestlé Toll House prepackaged cookie dough, which was recalled; more than 70 people fell ill, although none died.

[14] Edible cookie dough, egg-free and made with specially treated flour, became a dessert trend in the 2010s and led to the creation of several businesses.