Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake

My grandma recently celebrated her birthday. She was verrrry excited about it, here's the proof. Anyway, I decided to try something besides the typical birthday cake. I made a cookie cake instead. It was so easy. Here's the recipe...

Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake

What you need:

1 cup softened butter
3/4 cup white sugar
3/4 cup light brown sugar
Pinch of cinnamon (not pictured, because it was a last minute thing)
1 tsp. vanilla
2 eggs
2 & 1/4 cups flour
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda
1 pkg. semi-sweet chocolate chips

And you need a greased! 14 inch pie pan to bake it in.

Preheat your oven to 350.

In a large bowl beat the butter, sugars, vanilla and cinnamon until light and fluffy.

Add the eggs one at a time, and mix well after each egg.

Next, gradually add the flour, salt, and baking soda into the sugar/butter mixture, beating until well blended. Stir in the chocolate chips.

Spread the cookie dough into the pizza pan, but don't spread all the way to the edges! Leave a border, like this-

Except you want your border to be even thicker than mine because mine still cooked up over the edges. You might just want to set aside half a cup of the batter instead of worrying about your cookie cake baking over the edges. Mine baked over the edges of my pie pan-

But that didn't keep anyone from eating it! Bake for 20-25 minutes, start watching it after 20 minutes so it doesn't get crispy around the edges.

You can eat it just like this, or have fun with it and decorate it! I made it all pretty for my grandma. Here's what I used-

Oh, and mini chocolate chips were involved in the decorating process as well, because you can never have too much chocolate.

It's crunchy on the top and bottom and nice and chewy in the middle. The perfect chocolate chip cookie.

Enjoy!