A giant chocolate-chip cookie.
Can you think of anything better?
Right now, I can’t. But give me a second…
Nope. Still cant.
Presenting a healthier version of the famous Great American Cookie Cake. This one is whole-grain, gluten-free, and high in fiber. But don’t let those adjectives scare you away; the recipe has the stamp of approval from:
- A bunch of college guys
- Some very-picky preteen girls
- An entire kindergarten class
Giant Chocolate-Chip Cookie Cake
Inspired by the Deep Dish Cookie Pie
- 1/2 cup quick oats
- 2 tbsp unsweetened applesauce
- 1 can white beans or garbanzos (drained and rinsed) (250g)
- 1.5 tbsp oil (vegetable or coconut or canola)
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 3/4 cup brown sugar (You can try adding less, if you’re used to healthy desserts. Also, white sugar will work if you don’t have brown, but brown is recommended for the best taste. I can’t personally vouch for the results, but some commenters have reported success with xylitol, if you want it sugar-free.)
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips
Blend everything except the chips very well in a food processor (not a blender). Mix in chips, and pour into a greased or oiled pan. Cook at 350 F for around 20 minutes. Let stand at least 10 minutes before removing from the pan.
Or try the following recipe in a round pan for a PB & J Cookie Cake.
I’m also wondering if this would work with cinnamon and raisins, as an oatmeal-raisin cookie cake. But since this is a chocolate blog, I think next up will have to be:
A chocolate cookie, based off the Chocolate Brownie Batter Dip.
Question of the Day:
Have you ever had a cookie cake?
Great American cookie cakes were the thing when I was in middle school. (Well, those and Ugg boots with skirts.) Every single birthday party, school function, and social gathering… there’d be that ubiquitous cookie cake, sitting on the table amidst the chips and dip.
I remember my friend and I once got the “brilliant” idea of trying to take a Betty Crocker cookie mix and turn it into one giant homemade cookie cake. Sadly for us, our cookie didn’t make it. The poor thing burnt to a crisp on the outside and was simultaneously a gooey, messy mush in the middle.
Of course we ate it anyway!
Fun Party Idea: Set out a bunch of different icings and sprinkles, and let kids decorate their own slice. 🙂
I would love a giant cookie right now 🙂
And I second what another commenter already wrote — you have to get specific GF oats for it to be gluten free.
Oh they look and sound so yummy!
I bake a chocolate chip cookie cake for my husband on his birthday every year! His birthday is actually in just a couple days, so I plan on doing another one for him. His favorite dessert in the whole world is chocolate chip cookies, and he’s not a big cake fan, so a couple years ago, I decided to start baking him chocolate chip cookie cakes for his birthdays. Thanks for sharing your recipe!
Cookie cakes are the best! Definitely something I always nibble on at school/church/social functions! Thanks for the healthier alternative, Katie! 😀
This recipe may have just changed my life….. or the lives of my students! I can handle this!!!!! …..To share or not to share?!
Oh, Katie. I love you 🙂
LOVE IT! You really can’t go wrong with a giant cookie– really, i can’t think of anything better besides a giant cookie with brownie batter icing– or a giant brownie. I’m feeling nauseous right now, but def later I gotta make this 🙂
Cookie cakes…oh yes, fond memories! I used to work near a Mrs. Field’s cookies in the mall in h.s. and for everyone’s bdays (or even if Mrs Fields was trying to get rid of those big cakes they’d give them to us as a discount) but yes, have had my fair share. And of homemade, too. My mom used to make them for my bdays some years.
Yours looks great!
this looks amazing! it reminds me of the pizzokies they sell at BJ’s restaurant, they have all different flavors like chocolate chip, double chocolate, oreo (like cookies-n-cream), white chocolate macadamia, red velvet, i think they make different ones at diff time of the year too. haha they are like a cookie cake straight out of the ove (they serve it in the pan), topped with fidge and ice-cream. so good and im really excited to get to have a pizzokie again! love this katie!
haha, that was supposed to say out of the oven and topped with fudge
This one’s more of a pizookie density: https://lett-trim.today/2011/05/31/deep-dish-cookie-pie/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
I really want to try out a pumpkin-chocolate pizookie! 🙂
Ummm GET IT MY BELLY! Katie, this is awesome, I really wish I would have had this recipe sooner. How many people do you think one will serve?
One makes the size of a paper plate. (I cook it in a 8in round cake pan.)