this peanut butter cookie dough is packed with peanut butter cups peanut butter candy pieces peanut butter morsels and because it's eggless it's totally safe to eat right out of the bowl what we're making is strictly for eating with a spoon so raise your hand if you're guilty of eating cookie dough right here but then you kind of panic because you worried that you're going to get sick well I have the sweetest fix for you thanks to Rana from edible who showed us how to make birthday cake cookie dough we added in our favorite mix-ins and created a peanut butter lover's dream cookie dough this recipe is really easy first we're going to start by creaming together our butter with our salt and sugar and this is a lot easier if the butter is at room temperature then we're going to add our apple sauce and this is really important because it replaces the egg as a binding ingredient then we're going to add our peanut butter now this isn't just for flavor it's going to help all of our ingredients stay together and make it gooey and yummy and then our pinch of nutmeg and I'm using a hand mixer because this is a lot easier than doing it by hand next I'm going to add our vanilla extract and I'm gonna slowly add our flour while I continue to mix now we could stop right here and just have peanut butter cookie dough but why would we do that when we have so many fun candies so I'm going to add in our peanut butter cups I cut them into quarters but you could also chop them up if you wanted I wanted really big pieces then our peanut butter candy pieces oh and our peanut butter morsels that's got to be enough peanut butter for all you peanut butter lovers and we're folding them in at the end so that none of those candies break up I think the best part about this cookie dough is when you take a bite and the little peanut butter candies just kind of pop in your mouth how delicious does this look oh I can't wait to try it I really love giving edible cookie dough around the holidays as a gift idea I just put it in a little mason jar at a bow people love it but it's also great adding into desserts like my chocolate chip cookie dough stuffed Oreos dipped in chocolate oh my goodness this looks so good I cannot wait to try it well might as well just try it right off the spoon mmm oh my gosh this is so good and now that I've shown you guys how to make birthday cake cookie dough chocolate chip cookie dough and now peanut butter cookie dough I would love to see what flavor combinations you come up with don't forget to post it on Instagram tag me hashtag eat the trend see you next time bye