A cookie cake is a
dessert
Dessert is a course (food), course that concludes a meal. The course consists of sweet foods, such as confections, and possibly a beverage such as dessert wine and liqueur. In some parts of the world, such as much of Greece and West Africa, and ...
that consists of a large
cookie
A cookie is a baked or cooked snack or dessert that is typically small, flat and sweet. It usually contains flour, sugar, egg, and some type of oil, fat, or butter. It may include other ingredients such as raisins, oats, chocolate chips, n ...
, which is baked similarly to a batch of regular-sized cookies and usually decorated with
frosting. Cookie cakes are made with
cookie dough
Cookie dough is an un-cooked blend of cookie ingredients. Cookie dough is normally intended to be baked into individual cookies before eating, however edible cookie dough is made to be eaten as is, and usually is made without eggs to make it safer ...
, generally by adjusting the portions of existing cookie recipes in order to match the size of the pan used for baking.
Cookie cakes can be baked in a variety of sizes, and are served and sliced in sections, similarly to cakes and pies.
See also
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List of cakes
References
Cookies
Cakes
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