BM# 51 — Baking Marathon: Day 17
Bake of the Day: Celebration Cakes — Giant Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake
I can’t believe it is the third week of our month long mega baking marathon, after making breads, breakfast dishes, the next two weeks (or week and a half) are going to be focused on desserts — cakes, cookies and so on.
I have been planning for this marathon for almost 6 months now. So I’ve been saving all the special baked recipes for this week. First up, is the cookie cake I made for my son’s birthday. It is a giant chocolate chip cookie that is decorated like a birthday cake.
My son’s birthday was on a weekday last year and I had planned to make a birthday cake for the party over the weekend. So on his actual birthday, I decided to keep it simple and made this cookie cake instead of an actual cake. That decoration was supposed to be a dinosaur because my son is a big dinosaur fan 🙂
This cookie cake is quite easy to put together and it was fun to decorate this big cookie. I had some buttercream frosting that I made for another cake, so used that to frost this cookie cake.
All in all, I had fun making this cake and my son enjoyed cutting it on his birthday. I halved the original recipe and made a 8″ cookie cake that we ended up eating the entire thing in one sitting.
Recipe adapted from here.
- 1 + 2 cup tbsps All purpose flour
- ¼ tsp Baking Soda
- ¼ tsp Salt
- 6 tbsps Butter - melted and cooled
- ½ cup brown sugar Light
- 1 tsp Vanilla extract
- 1 tbsp Egg water replacer - whisked in 3tbsp (or use 1 large egg)
- ¼ cup Chocolate + more for the topping Chips
- Preheat oven to 325°F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Set aside.
- In a mixing bowl, cream together butter and brown sugar. Mix in egg mixture (or egg) and vanilla extract.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, salt and baking soda.
- Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients, stirring until a soft dough forms. Fold in chocolate chips.
- Press dough evenly in the prepared pan into 8" round cookie.
- Bake for 13~15 minutes -- make sure not to over bake the cookie, cookie will continue to cook as it cools.
- Let the cookie cool on pan until completely cooled.
- Once completely cooled, decorate as desired. Enjoy!!
Giant cookie cookie as a cake sounds good and must have tasted awesome. Nice decoration too.
I want these right now!!! they are super tempting!!! looks so delicious..
cool idea fun for kids too…
Wow, wat an attractive and super duper cookie cake.. Wish i get a slice now.
That looks so good! A great recipe for a simple celebration.
Love this cookie pizza!! What a wonderful way to bake along with kids..
A beautifully prepared giant cookie cake.
What a wonderful idea Pavani..the decoration looks so much like a fun activity!..
Is that a soft. chewy cookie? The icing and cookie color combo is looking good.
lovely and decoration is very nice
Lovely idea for a birthday. I am sure the kids will love to decorate the huge cookie as well.
Thats a new idea for me. Its so nice :-). I love the simple decorations and how sweet and cute everything looks! Happy (belated) birthday to your son!
never heard of a cookie cake !! belated bday wishes to ur kiddo !
That is a great option instead of cake. Looks so cute…
What an awesome idea! Looks so good Pavani…
That looks great Pavani! I always buy those humongous cookie from Papa John’s. I am going to try making one myself now 🙂
Awesome idea of using a cookie cake pavani, that frosting on top is very catchy!! 🙂