Chocolate Chip Cookie Pizza

It's National Chocolate Chip Day!  Here is a fun recipe that I like to use for many different holidays if I need to take a treat somewhere.  I will explain later.

We got a little crazy with this pizza.  Target didn't have any of the white mini marshmallows so we bought the Cars marshmallows and my 2 year old was so excited.  If you look closely you may be able to see that the pink is McQueen, brown is Mater, blue is Sally and orange is a construction cone.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Pizza

3/4 cup packed light brown sugar

1/2 cup margarine

1 egg

1 Tbsp water

1 tsp vanilla extract

1 1/4 cups flour

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp salt

1 cup peanut butter or butterscotch chips

1 cup miniature marshmallows

1/2 cup semi sweet chocolate chips

1/2 cup chopped pecans (optional)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.  Lightly grease a 12 inch pizza pan.  In a large mixing bowl beat sugar and margarine until creamy.  Add egg, water and vanilla; beat well.  In a separate bowl, stir together flour, baking soda, & salt; add to sugar mixture, beat on low speed until blended.  Stir in peanut butter or butterscotch chips.  Spread batter in prepared pan to within 1/2 inch of the edge.  Bake for 11-13 minutes or until set.  Remove from oven.  Sprinkle marshmallows, chocolate chips and pecans over top.  Return to oven.  Bake 5-7 minutes or until marshmallows are lightly browned.  Cool completely.

Chocolate Frosting:

1/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

2 Tbsp margarine

Combine these two ingredients and melt in the microwave until smooth (stirring every 30 seconds).  Drizzle chocolate over top of pizza.

Colored Frosting:

1/2 cup powdered sugar

1 Tbsp water

5 drops of desired food coloring

Mix these three ingredients together in a Ziploc baggy.  Once it is completely mixed, cut a small piece of the corner off the bag and decorate your pizza.

Let stand about 1 hour until drizzle sets.

I like to use the white mini marshmallows and then split the colored frosting mixture in two, taking 1/4 cup powdered sugar, 1/2 Tbsp water and 4 drops food coloring and put it in two Ziploc bags.  Then I use red and green food coloring for Christmas time, red and blue for 4th or July and orange and yellow for Halloween.  The possiblities are endless.



Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Sandwiches- National Ice Cream Sandwich Day

Can you ever tire of an ice cream sandwich?  How can you resist?  Here is a simple twist on an old favorite.  We whipped these out in minutes and even shared them with our neighbors.

Start with chocolate chip cookies, sugar cookies, or even chocolate wafers if your grocery store carries them.  Chose the ice cream of your choice.  We used chocolate chip for half of them, and cookies and cream for the other half.

Scoop ice cream onto one cookie and sandwich it between another cookie.

The kids were getting a little goofy, but they made 18 of them without my help.

We wrapped them individually in celophane wrap.

Did you really think we were going to eat all 18 ice cream sandwiches?  After we froze them for about an hour, we put them in brown paper bags, created this fun tag, and attached it to the bag with ribbon.

We ran off to share them with some friends right at dinner time. 

"I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream." Heywood Broun