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I wonder if brown butter would help?

They have a similar flavor (delicious) at Thomas Sweets in Princeton, NJ.

I was thinking brown sugar. It's got that molasses taste that is very "cookie dough."

I know this is cheating, but you could try getting a box chocolate chip cookie mix and adding 2-3c whole milk. I made yellow cake ice cream that way and it turned out great.

I've wondered the same thing myself. I also grew up going to a small ice cream store that served Thomas Sweet ice cream and the cookie dough is the best.

OMG...it WAS Thomas Sweet!!! I forgot that it changed names 2 times after that, but the original was most definitely TS. Thanks so much for posting my question, this has been driving me crazy for ages! I have tried once or twice by using just brown sugar (good taste, but not quite "doughy" enough) and recently with browned butter and flour (nasty!). I realized though, that browned butter comes with the baking, and the yummy dough is from just butter, so I might try it that way. I was just sitting down before reading this and looking at CC Cookie recipes trying to get the right ratio of brown to regular sugar to get that right. I love the idea of the cookie mix, but I don't like all the extra ingredients that usually go into it. I am also a little nervous about butter flavoring, but it might be what I need to get it right. Anyway, you will all hear from me if I ever do get the recipe even close! And thanks again for reminding me of Thomas Sweet :D!

I don't have the slightest idea how to make it, but I wanted to mention that Tillamook also makes a cookie dough flavored ice cream. I'm not sure if you can find Tillamook ice cream on the east coast...?

I'm going to agree with Faith and suggest trying to put as many cookie things in as possible. My mom's recipe is shortening (skip it), sugar, brown sugar, eggs, flour (skip it), baking soda (skip), salt, vanilla and chocolate chips. Good luck! And let us know if you get this to work, it sounds yummy.

Use cookie dough extract. ;)

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Sigh. Have never seen Tillamook ice cream on the east coast. And as an Oregon girl, it pains me.

Another option for people who hate the runny taste of raw cookie dough in the ice cream is a trick I learned from an ice cream parlor I worked at in high school. Make (or buy, cause that way there are no raw eggs) cookie dough and then roll it out on a cookie sheet so you get one large 1/4 inch layer. Freeze that until it's hard. Then break it up into pieces and add them to the ice cream when it's soft and freeze it hard for as long as the ice cream recipe recommends.

Obviously this isn't quite the same as what ziacd is looking for, but it does eliminate that runny texture that a lot of people don't really like in cookie dough ice cream.

I would try something like what kdeeley suggested... Try to make a "thin" batter of cookie dough (maybe less flour, with browned butter, and at room temperature) and try to blend it into a basic ice cream batter while churning it. Kind of like a swirl, but more blended. Hmm... I might try it myself.

I just saved a recipe from a blog I came across the other day for Cookie "No Dough" Dough Ice Cream. I haven't tried it yet but it looks so so good and it sounds like exactly what you're looking for! http://thekitchykitchen.blogspot.com/2009/06/cookie-no-dough-ice-cream.html

Ames, thank you very much! Funny enough, I also came across that recipe yesterday...seems like it was posted a day or two after I gave up my search and sent my question here. I actually used that idea, along with the butter pecan ice cream recipe from Simply Recipes, and double check the sugar to brown sugar ratio from a chocolate chip cookie recipe. I just finished mixing it in the ice cream machine and I'm waiting for it to set up. So far it's good, not quite like the actual thing, but I guess without flavorings that will be hard. I'll post the actual recipe soon! Thanks again to all of you!!!

Thomas Sweet! I'm in Oregon now and I miss it. Will have to look up Tillamook ice cream.

I think that butter make it so good.

Thomas Sweet! I'm in Oregon now and I miss it. Will have to look up Tillamook ice cream.

I think that butter makes it so good.