Giant Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake

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.

Ingredients:
All purpose flour - 1cup+2tbsp
Baking Soda - ¼tsp
Salt - ¼tsp
Butter - 6tbsp, melted and cooled
Light brown sugar - ½cup
Vanilla extract - 1tsp
Egg replacer - 1tbsp whisked in 3tbsp water (or use 1 large egg)
Chocolate Chips - ¼cup+more for the topping (mini chocolate chips preferred)

Method:

• 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!!

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