Gianni's Cookie Dough Ice Cream

What is it?

Cookie dough in ice cream is edible raw dough rather than baked biscuit, which is the distinction that makes the flavour work. Baked biscuit goes soft against a frozen base, where a dough piece stays dense and chewy because there's no crumb structure to collapse. The dough is made without raw egg and with heat-treated flour, so it's formulated for eating rather than for baking. That's a food safety measure rather than a recipe choice, and it's why cookie dough pieces taste sweeter and denser than dough scraped from a mixing bowl. The base underneath is plain vanilla. With pieces this rich there's nothing to gain from flavouring it further, and it gives the dough something neutral to sit against.