Giant Cookie Cake with Leftover Halloween Candy
November 5, 2014 by Jenn
If you have a bunch of leftover candy from Halloween, this is the recipe for you! If you ate it all your Halloween candy, good news- it’s all on clearance at the local stores, so go and grab some more before it’s all gone! If you do not live where you participate in Halloween festivities, you can use any candy you want to! I’m solving all of the world’s problems this morning- finding solutions to a lack of candy. You’re welcome.
Some people (not naming names- ME) went out of town after purchasing Costco candy for all the trick-or-treators in the neighbourhood and have a ginormous bag of candy (that I don’t like) leftover- NEVER opened! Oops. If you’re like me, there is serious strategy to buying Halloween candy. I buy what you don’t like, and then you won’t eat it. Usually, that is a fail safe way ensure there is no snacking, BUT since I recieved so many requests for a new recipe on how to use up leftover candy, I had to go out and buy some. Had to. HAD to! Then I HAD to go out and buy more when we snacked our way through the chocolate candies. HAD TO PEOPLE!! YOU MADE ME!! I thank you for that. My pants don’t, but I do.
Making a giant cookie cake definitely saves time, rather than dishing out individual amount of dough to make smaller cookies. You can do this with this recipe, but the fun is in serving a slice to your family or friends. Triangular pieces are a change from the standard round cookie, as are chunks of candy! If you choose to roll these cookies into rounds, bake them for 15-18 minutes, or until golden brown at 350F.
Whether you choose to make this the traditional way, or in it’s giant cookie form as seen in our tutorial, it’s a delicious, and fast way to use up any candy/chocolate you might have hanging around!
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Giant Ice Cream Sandwich Cookie Cake
July 11, 2014 by Jenn
I made homemade Vanilla Ice Cream a couple of days ago, and I had so much of it, that I knew I had to come up with something to make with it, in order to use it up. There’s only so much ice cream that you can give away!
A couple of weeks ago, I was at a local store (The Superstore) and on sale was a silicone pan shaped like a giant cookie! I didn’t know what I was going to use it for, but I knew I needed it. My storage room does not need it, but I did!
Fast forward a couple of weeks and ice cream plus cookie pan equals ice cream sandwich! I wanted a cake-like topping and bottom for the sandwich, and I’d been wanting to use a simple recipe, sometimes called a “wacky cake”. It doesn’t have any eggs, and uses ingredients that were easy to find back in the day. The baking soda and vinegar combine as the leavening agent and make a light fluffy cake which is the perfect pairing for the ice cream. As far as the cake pan goes, you definitely don’t need a new pan for this though, and you can bake the cake in a regular 8″ cake pan if you wish.
If you want to use homemade ice cream, follow our recipe here. But if you prefer, getting yourself a couple of liters of ice cream from the grocery store works as well.
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How to Make a Double Giant Chocolate Chip Cookie: Backpack Baking
June 13, 2013 by Jenn
If you’ve been keeping up with us for the last little while, you know that we have jumped into the exciting world of Backpack Baking!! It is the absolutely BEST! I do have to tell you that it is the true fat girl experience (I’m talking about me, so don’t send me hate mail). . . a food award after working hard hiking up a mountain . . . I can’t think of anything MORE rewarding! A million dollars? Nah, doesn’t get you far these days? A trophy? To gather dust? No thanks. A GIANT Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookie?? YES, PLEASE!!
In this video we show you how to bake a giant chocolate chip cookie in the outdoors, although this recipe can be baked in any oven if you feel like staying in the comforts of your home.
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