Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Balls

Posted by Lori:

Just the thought of a candy tasting like chocolate chip cookie dough is enough to make a lot of people like this candy. I shouldn't even admit this, but as a teenager, my best friend and I would mix up a half-batch of cookie dough, but NONE of it would ever make it to the oven! Yep. We would eat the whole half batch...without the fear of Salmonella.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Balls

1/2 cup butter
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 cups flour
1 can (14 oz.) condensed milk
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 cup mini chocolate chips
1/2 cups walnuts (optional)
1 1/2 pound chocolate candy coating

Cream butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Add flour, milk, and vanilla; mix well. Stir in chocolate chips and nuts. Shape into 1 inch balls. Put in the refrigerator 1 - 2 hours. Melt coating per package directions. Dip balls in melted coating. Store in refrigerator in airtight container.

I rarely let my kids eat homemade raw dough now, because of the Salmonella threat, but we do sometimes buy the refrigerated dough at the store, and just like some of the cookie dough in my past never made it to the oven, some of the bought doesn't, either!