Recipe: Giant cookie cake

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By: Emma Little

This Valentines Day, if your love is as strong as Troy and Abed’s from Community, then make your own giant cookie. Decorate it yourself to add a personal touch!

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 375°F. Soften the butter in the microwave, and beat in the sugar, eggs and vanilla. Next, add the flour, baking soda and salt.
2. Use an electric mixer until fully combined together – an electric mixer is not mandatory, but it makes things easier! Mix in the chocolate chips.
3. Line a pizza pan with parchment paper. Spread the batter evenly over the parchment paper to fill the pizza pan almost completely.
4. Leave 1-2 inches around the edges for the cookie to expand when baking. Cut the excess parchment paper off, again, making sure to leave 1-2 inches excess.
5. Bake for 20-25 minutes. You want the centre of your cookie to turn golden. If you don’t wait long enough, the middle with be very soft and dough-like. Let the cookie cool fully.

Easy decorating

If you want to add an outline of a heart for Valentine’s Day, use M&M’s or Smarties. Press them gently into the cookie dough before baking.

Difficult decorating

Using icing is a little more advanced, but if you decide to add icing to your cookie, you need a thicker icing that will harden a little and set in place. Use a tub of Betty Crocker frosting, plus icing sugar and food colouring.

1. Start by emptying the icing into a bowl. For one tub of icing, add two cups of icing sugar. Beat the icing sugar into the icing. I recommend using an electric mixer if you can.
2. Add the food colouring. Once you have the colour you want, pick an icing tip, fill a piping bag, and pipe on the design.  I used two different icing tips for my piping bag, a thin round tip and a medium size star tip.

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