Special Occasion Cookie

Don’t you just love when you go into the mall and you walk through the food court and there they are – the Big Cookie!!! I make cakes for a living and normally I’m a huge cake fan, but on my birthday I love to call my local cookie shop and order a cookie. This year I thought I could bake awesome small cookies why not make a big cookie. Well in the past I have tried doing this and it never turned out, it always got over baked. So what’s a baker to do except go and Google my problem? Well, I wanted to share the recipe I found and it is so good it will want you to slap your granny it’s so good. I promise you that it tasted just like the big chain cookies!!!!! Except I thought it was better because we ate it fresh and it was just amazing and easy. The first cookie I baked was for my husband’s birthday. The key to this cookie is to let it cool in the pan, and you will need a pizza pan or a 12” round cake pan. Make sure that after it cools that you have a big cooling rack. I had leftover icing colored and bagged from a previous cake and the girls loved decorating the cookie. They simple put down an icing line to divide the cookie in half, so they each had a half to decorate. They were so proud and the cookie with the icing……… well they do have a phrase for that experience. Enjoy making these cookies for any occasion, and sorry I didn’t get this posted in time for the Valentines Day weekend. St. Patrick’s day is coming up and I’m making one to take to the office to celebrate (since there will be no drinking of green beer on the clock!)

THE BIG COOKIE!!

1 box of yellow cake mix

2 eggs

½ cup oil

1 tsp. vanilla

12oz. bag of chocolate chips

Lightly grease a pizza pan or a 12” cake pan. Mix all ingredients except chocolate chips in a bowl and mix until smooth. Put chocolate chips in and mix. Put batter into pan and bake at 350* for 25-30 minutes. Let cool completely and then turn out onto cooling rack. Ice if you would like.