Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake with Icing

Chocolate Chip Cookies are pretty much my favorite cookie and dough, but I wanted to do something different so I made them into a cake and added frosting. I made no-butter frosting because I ran out of butter and did not want to run to the store. It taste pretty good and the recipe is good to have when you do run out of butter. 



Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake

Ingredients:

3/4 cp Sugar
3/4 cp packed Brown Sugar
1/2 cp Butter, softened
1/2 cp Crisco
1 tsp. Vanilla
2 Large Eggs
2 1/4 cp All Purpose Flour
1 tsp. Baking Soda
1 tsp. Salt
2 cp. Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
1 cp. Nuts (optional)

1. Preheat Oven to 300 degrees.
2. Mix together sugar, brown sugar, butter, crisco, and vanilla until creamy.
3. Add eggs one at a time, mixing well after each.
4. Add flour a little at a time until completely mixed in.
5. Mix in baking soda and salt.
6. Add chocolate chips and nuts.
7. Eat a little bit of the dough. : )
8. On a non-greased pizza pan, spread cookie dough about 1/4 inch thick over entire pan leaving about 1/2 inch around the edge. (You will have some dough left over)
9. Bake for 10 minutes, remove and place aluminum foil just around the edges of the pizza pan, leaving the middle exposed.
10. Continue baking for 10-15 minutes or until top is browned.
11. Allow to cool completely before icing.



Butter Free Icing

Ingredients:

1 cp. Crisco
1 Tblsp. Water
1.5 tsp. Vanilla
5 cp. Powdered Sugar
3 Tblsp. Milk

To Make it Chocolate Icing you will also need:
1/4 cp Cocoa
1/2 cp semi-sweet chocolate chips, melted


1. In Mixer, mix together crisco and water, add vanilla and mix until well blended.
2. Alternate between powered sugar and milk until it is all mixed together.

If making chocolate icing:
3. Add in cocoa, mix
4. Add in melted chocolate and blend well.

Add food coloring if wanted.
Store in fridge in tight container until you need it.




ENJOY!