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!!
Usha Rao
Giant cookie cookie as a cake sounds good and must have tasted awesome. Nice decoration too.
Nivedhanams Sowmya
I want these right now!!! they are super tempting!!! looks so delicious..
The Pumpkin Farm
cool idea fun for kids too…
Priya Suresh
Wow, wat an attractive and super duper cookie cake.. Wish i get a slice now.
Varadas Kitchen
That looks so good! A great recipe for a simple celebration.
Saras
Love this cookie pizza!! What a wonderful way to bake along with kids..
sneha datar
A beautifully prepared giant cookie cake.
Srivalli
What a wonderful idea Pavani..the decoration looks so much like a fun activity!..
Suma Gandlur
Is that a soft. chewy cookie? The icing and cookie color combo is looking good.
Srividhya Gopalakrishnan
lovely and decoration is very nice
Harini-Jaya Rupanagudi
Lovely idea for a birthday. I am sure the kids will love to decorate the huge cookie as well.
Rajani S
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!
Kalyani
never heard of a cookie cake !! belated bday wishes to ur kiddo !
Gayathri's Cook Spot
That is a great option instead of cake. Looks so cute…
PJ
What an awesome idea! Looks so good Pavani…
Sandhya Ramakrishnan
That looks great Pavani! I always buy those humongous cookie from Papa John’s. I am going to try making one myself now 🙂
Priya Srinivasan
Awesome idea of using a cookie cake pavani, that frosting on top is very catchy!! 🙂