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Next time you’re throwing a party, look no further. I have a Mega Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake that will feed a crowd! It’s the perfect easy recipe to feed those hungry football fans at your next party!
Are you ready for some football? The season starts tonight! Aren’t you excited???
(Me neither!! Or is that just me?)
My husband is over the moon. He’s giddy with anticipation. I’ve cancelled all Sunday plans for the next 5 months, unless of course those plans are going to a football party. In which case I’m happy it’s football season because then all the food.
Mel had his fantasy draft a few weeks ago. I’ve told you guys about this before, remember? He goes to Arizona for the draft. He’s the commissioner. I told him to take a video during the draft because I wanted to see and he said “I can’t, I’m too busy wearing a headset, drafting my team, drafting for the guys on Skype, and managing the white board the restaurant gives us as part of the package deal.”
After I finished laughing, I told him one of the other drafters better send me a photo AND video of that. JUST FOR BLACKMAIL PURPOSES.
As is the tradition for his annual nerd boys weekend, I make treats for him to take along. I’ve sent football cookies, football brownies, football pies and football dip. This year I went ALL OUT. I made him a MEGA Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake to take with him with a HUGE pan. I even decorated it in two ways because it’s so, well, MEGA.
The cookie pan is one of Wilton’s newest pans, the Perfect Results Mega Cookie Pan. Officially I think they invented the 15×21″ pan so that you can bake mega amounts of cookies on it in one batch. You can get up to two dozen cookies on there for baking, which makes it easier to bake all at once with less cookie sheets and transfers and all that.
Of course, I saw it, and all I thought was “FOOTBALL FIELD SIZED COOKIE” because that’s the way my mind works. If you’re having trouble picturing what a pan that is 15 inches by 21 inches looks like, picture two 9×13″ pans next to each other and then add some.
Yeah, the thing is huge. It could double as a cat bed if I had a cat. But I’d rather use it for baking cookies on…and for making a mega chocolate chip cookie cake!
I decided to use my favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe for the cookie cake. That recipe starts with brown butter, which is the ONLY kind of butter you should use forever and always, okay? It adds so much flavor to the cookie batter. It’s such an easy recipe, even if you’ve never browned butter before. I doubled the recipe and it made a huge amount of cookie dough, perfect for a crowd. I can’t wait to use this pan for birthday parties and baking Christmas cookies!
I could have just done one decoration for the whole cookie cake, but that’s boring. Plus, I like options and I bet you do too. I decorated half the cookie cake with chocolate frosting and piped laces with Wilton Candy Melts. I decorated the other half with my favorite vanilla frosting that I tinted green, and then I made chocolate footballs out of more candy melts. You could also make one big football out of chocolate or frosting, if you prefer.
Of course, if you don’t like options, just pick one…and if you do good luck with that. Chocolate or vanilla? I can never choose.
Don’t like football, no problem. This cookie cake would be great decorated for ANY sport using any colors for any team. Or put rainbows all over it for a birthday party. Or just slather it with frosting and hide in the closet with a mega fork. I can see myself doing any one of those things…
Mega Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake
Ingredients
- 2 cups unsalted butter
- 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
- 2 cups packed brown sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 2 tablespoons vanilla extract
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 6 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 3 cups mini chocolate chips
For Football Decorations:
- 1 recipe Perfect Vanilla Frosting or any vanilla frosting
- 1 recipe Brown Butter Chocolate Frosting or any chocolate frosting
- 6 ounces Wilton Chocolate Candy Melts
- 4 ounces Wilton White Candy Melts
- Green Food Coloring
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Line the bottom of the Wilton Mega Cookie Pan (15x21) with parchment paper and spray the bottom and sides with nonstick cooking spray.
- Place butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Stir occasionally until the butter is melted, then cook on medium-low, stirring occasionally, until the butter turns a rich amber color. This will take about 8-15 minutes depending on the heat on the stove. Once it starts to change a bit be sure to watch it, it can burn fast. Remove from heat and let cool for 5 minutes.
- Place granulated sugar and brown sugar in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. (You can also use a hand mixer.) Turn on the mixer and slowly add the butter, letting the mixer run until the mixture is smooth. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing between each, then add vanilla, baking soda, and salt. Slowly mix in flour until combined, then stir in mini chocolate chips.
- Press the mixture evenly into the bottom of the prepared pan. It’ll just fit. Bake for about 12-15 minutes or until it just looses its glossy sheen (these taste better under cooked). Let cool.
- To make the chocolate footballs: melt the chocolate candy melts according to package directions. Line a cookie sheet with wax paper. Place chocolate in a pastry bag and cut off a small tip. Pipe footballs onto cookie sheet. Chill. Once they are hardened, melt the white chocolate candy melts according to package directions and place them in another pastry bag. Pipe laces onto the footballs and chill to set.
- Tint white frosting green using Wilton food coloring. Frost half the cookie cake with the green frosting. Top slices with a chocolate football.
- Frost the remaining half of the cookie cake with chocolate frosting. Slice the cookie cake and then pipe laces on each slice.
- Note: you can make the entire cake with one decorations, just double the amount of frosting for whichever decoration you desire.
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Hashtag DREAM DESSERT! I love cookie cakes and can’t wait to try this!
This is so impressive! I don’t care one iota about football or any professional sports at ALL. Like…I could be doing sooo many other things besides watching sports for 4 hours on a precious weekend day! You did such an amazing job decorating this cake! It’s so creative and adorable!
I don’t get the fantasy football thing either. My husband stayed up way too late with their draft a few weeks ago. He would have loved to have had this cookie cake during the hours he spent on the computer!
My husband is way too excited about football season, too! I actually don’t care for it, but I do care for this cake! Love how cute this is, Dorothy!
My husband is WAY too pumped as well. He was walking around last night singing the NFL theme every five minutes. It’s very repetitive. And now I get to see him stare at his phone all the time pretending to be paying attention but really watching all things football.
This cookie cake is magnificent, though. As is the pan. It’s the most adorable football cookie cake ever!!!
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