NYT just posted a recipe two weeks back:

Heat-treat the flour: Heat oven to 400 degrees. Line a sheet pan with parchment, add the flour and spread it into a thin layer. Bake flour for 5 minutes (see Tip). Cool flour completely.

Edible Cookie Dough

But my favorite hobby at home was spooning raw flour into my mouth and washing it down with melted crayons…

At that point…it ceases to be cookie dough.

Are you saying that substituting apple sauce for eggs doesn’t make them safe?