Antabuse, can I eat chocolate chip cookies with vanilla extract in them?

January 19, 2010 - Posted by admin

I just started taking Antabuse to stop drinking and my aunt made me some cookies that have vanilla extract in them? I am dying to have one but do not want to suffer the consequences.

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3 Comments

  1. TX2step says:

    Usually any alcohol content will have burned out during baking; and there’s so little vanilla in the whole batch of cookies, it shouldn’t bother you. But, you can call your pharmacist and ask…….

    ... on July January 19th, 2010
  2. snakegrrl says:

    I believe you can. At least in baked goods. Just don’t have it in something that isn’t cooked. Like don’t put vanilla extract in your coffee, don’t put it in your whipped cream if you’re making the stuff from scratch. Usually vanilla extract leaves only the flavoring behind when the whatever is baked. Alcohol has a low boiling point, so it cooks out of things quickly. That’s why they don’t check your ID before you order bread pudding with bourbon sauce for dessert! There’s a lot of bourbon in that but all the alcohol cooks off so it’s safe even for kids and pregnant women.
    But check with your doc. I may be wrong on this. Good luck quitting the drinking! I’ve heard it’s really tough to quit, but have no experience in it or else I’d give more advice….haven’t been brave enough to try alcohol outside of cooking yet.

    ... on July January 19th, 2010
  3. Poyzin says:

    good question. I heard even mouthwash (which you don’t swallow) can cause a bad reaction.

    Although the temperature and chemical reactions resulting from baking the extract probably renders it harmless, i wouldn’t take a chance.

    But.. it might also not hurt to do some math.

    If she used 1 teaspoon and it’s 15% alcohol, you have only 15% of a teaspoon of alcohol in the entire batch of cookies. If a batch of cookies is 20 cookies, it means you only have 0.75% of a teaspon of alcohol per cookie. That’s WAY less than a drop. Plus, assume that 50% of it evaporates from the baking process, you have WAY less than half a drop of alcohol per cookie.

    ... on July January 19th, 2010