Cooking
I'd already made a cake for Alex's birthday party, as well as cupcakes to send to school on the actual day. So, for his much-smaller family birthday dinner, I was kind of out of ideas.
One of Alex's classmates share his birthday, and her father offered to bring in a cookie cake from a place in town. I told him I'd already planned for cupcakes, and would be happy to make it from both kids. Besides, there's really no substitute for my chocolate chip cookies!
But that got me thinking. Matt picked up a round pizza pan, and while Alex was at school, I made him this gigantic chocolate chip cookie cake.
He thought it was fantastic; a slice of cookie seemed, to him, the neatest thing ever.
And that's what matters, right?
On another note, I apolgize for not being around as much as you may be used to. For some reason, I haven't been spending much time in front of the computer the past few weeks. The prep for Alex's party had a lot to do with it, but I still haven't gotten back on track.
Also, I'm having the worst time posting photos through Blogger, and that doesn't help.
Anyway, I hope to be back to normal next week...so, don't give up on me just yet.
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Cooking
Birthday Cookie
I'd already made a cake for Alex's birthday party, as well as cupcakes to send to school on the actual day. So, for his much-smaller family birthday dinner, I was kind of out of ideas.
One of Alex's classmates share his birthday, and her father offered to bring in a cookie cake from a place in town. I told him I'd already planned for cupcakes, and would be happy to make it from both kids. Besides, there's really no substitute for my chocolate chip cookies!
But that got me thinking. Matt picked up a round pizza pan, and while Alex was at school, I made him this gigantic chocolate chip cookie cake.
He thought it was fantastic; a slice of cookie seemed, to him, the neatest thing ever.
And that's what matters, right?
On another note, I apolgize for not being around as much as you may be used to. For some reason, I haven't been spending much time in front of the computer the past few weeks. The prep for Alex's party had a lot to do with it, but I still haven't gotten back on track.
Also, I'm having the worst time posting photos through Blogger, and that doesn't help.
Anyway, I hope to be back to normal next week...so, don't give up on me just yet.
Tagged
with: Food and Drink + Baking + Cookies + Cake + Chocolate Chip + Birthdays
- Birthday Pizza
Wednesday is Alex's 9th birthday. ...I know. I'm having a hard time believing it, myself. Instead of a cake, he asked for a cookie pizza to take to school tomorrow. And that's what he's getting. Sugar cookie, baked in a pizza pan. Covered...
- Post-oscar Decadence
Of all the nominations, I've only seen...two?...of the films. Ratatouille and Michael Clayton. Which is probably a higher number than past years. We decided to have a sort of 'decadence' dinner. Nothing too fancy, just foods we really enjoy....
- Apples? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Apples!
Forget the shiny red apple as a teacher gift. For Alex's preschool teacher's birthday, we gave cake. I call it 'The Turtle Cake', for what I hope are obvious reasons. Two (square) layers of a seriously dense chocohlate cake, smothered...
- Total Decadence
It was my mother-in-law's birthday this past weekend. She's very good about eating healthy, but she's never said 'no' to something from my oven. Matt drummed it into my head fairly early on that his mom loves chocolate. So, what better...
- Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe
There are tons of options when it comes to baking chocolate chip cookies and mixing ingredients up is a great way to make the same old chocolate chip cookie a little bit special. Many recipes can be found in various baking cook books and you can even...