Today is Maria’s nephew’s 7th birthday. Last week Gianfranco was asked if he would like cupcakes or cookies for his birthday and he requested cookies. So, I thought what better to make him than a cookie cake?! We love baking for anyones birthday, but we especially love baking dessert for people who love dessert as much as us! This might be an under statement, but Gianfranco LOVES dessert! I love it how he connects together, Maria = dessert. I’m not sure if he is happy to see me when I come over, or because he knows there will be dessert, haha! Not only do I love him because he is my dessert buddy, but he truly is the sweetest little boy! The ladies are going to be lining up for him when he grows up!
Look at how adorable he is!
Being as sweet as he is, he thanked me numerous times for the cake and said he liked it a lot. So the cookie cake was a success!
The cookie recipe I decided to use is a oatmeal-coconut chocolate chip cookie, that we recntly came across on Jane’s blog, thisweekfordinner. We have fallen in love with it! The coconut keeps the cookie soft and chewy for days. We chose a vibrant blue and green to decorate his cake, and loved how the colors popped.
The recipe is as follows.
Ingredients:
- 2 sticks unsalted butter
- 1 C brown sugar, packed
- 6 T sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 1/2 t salt
- 1/2 t baking soda
- 1 C flour
- 2 1/4 C oats
- 1 1/2 C cocnut
- 12 oz semi-sweet chocolate chunks (2 cups) (I prefer mini chocolate chips – they really make the cookie oh so delicious, in my humble opinion)
- 3/4 C chopped almonds
Directions:
Preheat oven to 375 F. Beat butter and sugars at high speed until fluffy. Add eggs and beat till blended. Beat in vanilla, baking soda, and salt. Add flour and mix at low speed until blended. Stir in oats, coconut, chocolate and almonds.
Refrigerate for 30 minutes. Line bottom on a 10′ spring-form pan with parchment paper. Press cookie dough into pan using spatula. (You might have some extra dough left over depending on how think you want our cookie cake.) I doubled the recipe and make 40 smaller cookies and froze the rest to use for the cookie cake.
Enjoy!
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