ShareThisUntil today I didn’t have a tried and true recipe for a giant chocolate chip cookie cake. But with Fuzz’s birthday tomorrow, I figured I’d make one for her and test a recipe in the process.
I found the original version of this recipe on Yahoo answers. The cook-time was 20-25 minutes at 300 degrees F, but mine took 35 minutes, so I suspect there was a typo. Despite the cook-time issue, the giant cookie recipe worked perfectly. The original recipe used 1 cup butter, but I wanted to conserve butter the first go-round and used 1/2 butter & 1/2 bf shortening.
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M&M Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour (11 1/4 oz)
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt**
8 oz unsalted butter*
1 cup packed light brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 bag semi sweet regular or miniature size chocolate chips (2 cups)
1 regular size bag (about 1.5 oz) plain M&M’s or, if you live in the UK, smarties
Preheat oven to 300° F. Line a 12 inch round pizza pan with a circle of parchment or non-stick foil. Alternatively, you can make your own pizza pan by molding non-stick foil into a giant 12 inch circle.
Mix flour, baking soda and salt together; set aside.
Cream butter and both sugars by hand or with an electric mixer. Beat in the eggs and vanilla. When well mixed, add flour mixture and stir until blended Fold in chocolate chips.
Put all the batter in the pan and press it into a circle. Stop the circle about 1 ½ to 2 inches from the rim. Press M&M’s decoratively into top.
Bake on center rack for 32-35 minutes or until cookie is golden around edges and appears set.
**If using margarine or regular butter, decrease salt to ½ teaspoon
* I actually used ½ cup butter, ½ cup butter flavored shortening
Oooh, a massive cookie!!
Wishing Fuzz an early happy birthday!!
That looks awesome! My kids would love it!!! Happy birthday to Fuzz!
Happy Birthday to Fuzz! I know she will enjoy that cake…looks good;-)
I love cookie cake so much!
I’ve made this one with excellent results, although I halved the recipe: http://desertculinary.blogspot.com/2005/05/giant-chocolate-chip-cookie-cake.html
You can get M&Ms in the UK! I’ll be making this very soon I’m sure!!!
That looks perfect!!
I’m playing around with chocolate and chipotle today…hopefully with positive results!
That looks so yummy – anything with M and M’s is a winner
Now THERE’S the ultimate CCC!
I made a giant cookie for my daughter’s b’day cake many years ago. We had a cookie themed party. The invitations were cookie shaped, and one of the activities at the party was decorating pre baked sugar cookies, which the girls took home with them after the party. I made chefs hats for each of the girls, and little aprons. It was a lot of fun! I can’t remember the other activities right now, but I know we did other cookie themed things.
That looks so much tastier than the ones they sell at malls! Lovely.
We have smarties in Canada too( we also have M & M’s)
Oh my little brothers and sister would love this!
I’ve made a batch of brownies with M&M’s on top and they turned out colorful and yummy!
BTW, I’m going to be baking your White Chocolate Macadamia Cookies tonight! They look SO yummy!
Fuzz says thanks for all the birthday wishes. I’ll buy her a toy on behalf of each of you
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Jess, that is one mind-blowing cookie cake.
Dana, good luck with the chocolate chipotle combo. I’m really into peanut butter chipotle at the moment.
Cathy, I feel the same way. M&M’s make everything better.
Hannah, I hope to see a giant cookie come out of the Del Sisters Kitchen very soon.
Katrina….yeah!
Sue, that is too cute. See, as someone with a blog called Cookie Madness, I should do that. However, are theme is “Dogs” and we’ve only invited one kid.
Randi, that’s good to know
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Cookie, I hope you like the white chocolate macadamia cookies.
Happy 6th (???)Birthday Fuzz!!! A few more days and we’d share the same birthday
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I made a giant cookie for my son’s birthday, but decorated it like a pizza – grated white chocolate for cheese, jelly sweet strips for peppers, red icing around the edges for tomato etc. It looked amazing, and the kids all loved it!
Happy Birthday, Fuzz.
What a great looking cookie.
When you have time tell me all about your new teacher. I wish you were in my classroom. First grade, isn’t it.
Is Fuzz turning 8? I’m guessing.
I just made small Levains w/yeast (1 1/8 oz.) with the brownie bites in them. They are good!
I’m thinking Fuzz is 7 because if I remember correctly she’s the same age as my daughter
I used to work in one of those cookie places in the mall and decorate giant cookie cakes…fun times! Thanks for sharing your recipe.
I love giant M&M cookies; the ultimate cookie, right? And I love all the stuff you make on here. I don’t know where you find the time though.
tell fuzz happy birthday from me too!
i am thinking about making a similar cookie cake for my boyfriend for his birthday (sunday)….he is a huge cookie monster face. i was thinking of just making cookies until i saw this post and ah it looks so yummy!
Can I go to the party? I’ll bring a huge glass of milk! Happy birthday to Fuzz!
Happy Birthday Emma!
I guess you could call the cookie EM&Ma giant cookie cake! Is there a party tomorrow?
Happy Birthday Fuzz!
I have a back-to-school party to go to Saturday and was just trying to think of something to take…This is perfect!
I used to love these things as a kid. They were the ultimate treat. Top with some vanilla ice cream while the cookie is still hot and oh man. I try to stay away from it now since I have zero control around that thing but man, they are calling my name now. I used to just use the tollhouse cookie dough and slab that on a pan but a homemade one sounds even better.
My little guy would be super happy with that yummy looking cake. Looks like a giant pac man with the slice taken out of it!
Oh, so delicious every is especially the brownie with that big walnut on top at the top of this page. I will bookmark your site to use the recipes. Everything looks so good:)
Oh my that cookie cake looks fabulous! Happy B-day to Fuzz
Now I may have to try this for the next birthday coming up rather than buying a cookie cake. Thanks for sharing.
Happy Birthday, Fuzz.
We made the peanut butter crunch bars yesterday. Oh, they were good. I mean really really good. I can’t wait to tinker with that one.
Hi, I’ve had your blog in my favorites since last year and I check it daily to see what new recipes are posted. I want to say that I am so pleased with the delicious recipes. I have made a few but I recently made the one bowl chocolate chip cookie recipe and it was a huge hit with our family on a recent camping trip. I am the ultimate die hard chocolate chip cookie fan so I always find great recipes from you. I can’t wait to try this M&M cookie cake next. Thanks for sharing! Also, I want to send a big Happy Birthday wish to Fuzz!!
I made this yesterday, dividing the dough into 2 8-inch cake pans to make two big, but not gigantic cookie cakes. Baking time was 30 minutes. My daughter and her friend each decorated one with a basic powdered sugar frosting, just to practice decorating. They came out great! I look forward to making the full 12-inch cookie one day.
OMG! This looks fantastic! I’m doing a school project, and maybe I can talk about this delicious desert!;) O, and idk who fuzzy is but happy b-day anyway!;)
okay i have to make a “how to” project in school so i decided to make a cookie cake… part of my grade is the taste and my class of about 30 has to eat a peice.. will that be enough for 30 peope?
Hi Rick,
Good luck with your project. I think one cookie would be enough for 30, but you’d have to give out very small sample size pieces. You might want to go ahead and just make two. Maybe you’ll get extra credit.
This will be my next birthday cake i have had cookie cakes for the last 3 years now
Hi Austin,
Aren’t cookie cakes great? I need to make this again. I spend so much time trying new recipes that I have to carve out time to go back and try old ones. This is one I’d like to make again soon.
Maybe I’ll make it later today. My daughter loves cookie cakes.
Is this cookie soft or crunchy? I’m looking for a soft cookie.
I was searching the internet all over the place looking for the perfect cookie cake to bake for my boyfriend’s birthday. This one caught my attention the most out of any other, so I decided to try it. I went to my cousin’s house to bake the cake with his wife and I must say, it came out so great we ended up baking two of them! They both came out great, they were soft and probably the best cookie cakes I’ve ever tried. I did do something a little bit different instead of using a full bag of chocolate chips, I used half a bag of mini chocolate chips and half a bag of white chocolate chips, although I couldn’t find mini white chocolate chips it still came out amazingly delicious. He loved it and so did everyone else. This recipe definitely made it into my favorites.
Hi Sally,
Thank you so much for taking the time to write an unbiased review. I really appreciate it.
I had great success with this recipe when I made it, but haven’t made it in a while and was hoping that folks out there were getting the same good results. The great thing with cookie cakes is you can play with the add-ins as much as you want. Your white chip/mini chocolate chip combo is a great example. I’ll bet the mini chips with the big white chips looked cool.
Thanks for the review. This is my daughter’s favorite recipe and I should make it more often.
YES…. Thank you NEVER thought about making one and its wayyyy cheaper. I had tons of fun making it and decorating it for my daughter’s 7thbday party tomorrow.. SHE loves cookie cakes every yr we would buy now I make!
Just wanted to let you know this recipe is excellent. I did it for my 16 year old for his birthday. He loved it so much that I just asked him what I could do to make him feel better since he had a bad day. Make the big cookie for me was his solution to happiness.
That is amazing – 35 minutes for a cookie! Thanks for sharing. I have a great recipe for M&M Cookies that I just posted too. Check it out: http://www.maddiesadventures.com/mom-recipes/mm-cookie and let me know what you think.
Hi Elissa,
Thanks for the feedback! I’m glad the cookie brightened your son’s day.