The best thing about pre-made cookie dough is that if you’re craving freshly baked cookies, you can have one in 15 minutes or less. The only drawback with some store-bought cookie dough is that it's missing a homemade taste.
Can you make pre-made cookie dough taste better? Absolutely.
The following tips aren’t premade cookie dough hacks, meaning this isn’t a tutorial on how to turn premade sugar cookie dough into cranberry orange zest cookies. This is for the person who wants their premade cookie dough to taste a bit more like homemade dough.
Here are eight ways (plus bonus hacks for cookie dough box mixes) to make premade cookie dough taste like it was made from scratch. Note: Because premade cookie dough is tough to stir, hand or stand mixers are helpful for most of these tips.
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Butter and brown sugar make everything taste homemade.
According to Leaf TV, you can elevate pre-made cookie dough by adding a few teaspoons of brown sugar and three to five tablespoons of softened butter to the pre-made batter. You could also add a few teaspoons of olive oil instead of butter, though cooking blog La Jolla Mom reports that this will yield a flatter, crunchier cookie.
More vanilla extract can’t hurt.
Pre-made cookie dough can have a strange, almost chemical-like aftertaste, so Food52.com suggests adding extra vanilla extract to mask any weird flavors. In general, a little extra vanilla extract in any cookie recipe is always a good idea. Leaf TV also suggests trying other flavor extracts like mint (for double chocolate chip cookies) or cherry (for sugar cookies).
Add in extra mix-ins or toppings.
Add extra mix-ins or toppings like white chocolate chips, candies, pretzels, or nuts to break up the flavor profile of the dough.
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