Show your lover some love this Valentine's Day with a homemade Cookie Cake! I came across a recipe for a cookie cake and thought it was the best idea because I always lose steam halfway through making regular cookies. Once the first batch is in the oven, I usually decide I no longer want to roll the dough into balls and end up eating the leftover raw cookie dough and feeling pretty miserable afterwards. Solution, one giant Cookie Cake!
Ingredients: 3/4 cup softened butter, 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1 cup plus 1 tbs. all purpose flour, 1/4 tsp baking soda, 1 egg, 1 tsp pure vanilla extract (not pictured), 1 cup of M&M's.
Cream Brown Sugar & Butter: AKA - use the back of a spoon to mash your butter and brown sugar together. (Note: It's important that you use softened butter and not melted butter. I'm not normally one for following rules when I cook, but baking is another story. Using softened butter will give you a fluffier cake and using melted butter will make your cake flat.)
Add Egg & Vanilla: Mix one egg and one teaspoon of vanilla extract into your butter/sugar mixture.
Add Flour & Baking Soda: Add 1 cup & 1 tbs. flour and 1/4 tsp of baking soda. I have no idea who discovered that 1 cup plus 1 tablespoon is the right amount - but that is what the cookie recipe told me to do.
Mix in M&Ms: Fold in 1 cup (I used a HEAPING cup) of M&M's to the batter.
Pour Batter into Pie Pan: Pour the batter into a greased pie pan. I sprinkled some more M&M's on top for some extra pizazz.
Bake that Cake! Bake the cake in a 325 degree pre-heated oven for 27-30 minutes until a tooth pick comes out clean.
Eat it! Or give it to your Valentine! Either serve this as is or top it off with some ice cream! Yum!
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