New Years Day Cookie Cake

So it's January 1st 2014. The brand new start to a new year and what better way to bring in the new year than with a new recipe. As a child I loved having Miss Fields cookies. Every time we went to the mall I just had to get a cookie. Then I discovered her cookie cakes and I was in "Heaven". Never before had something tasted so good.

I'm not if its because I grew out of them or because I just don't do that much shopping at the mall anymore thanks to amazon.com but I haven't had a cookie cake in for ever. So while I was browsing through Pinterst.com and Foodgawker.com two of my new favorite guilty pleasure I saw a few cookies and they brought me back to when I was a child.

Long story short I decided to give it a shot and try to make my own cookie cake, and wow it turn out amazingly. I tried to frost it, but I need to work on my tectonic still. I really do love this cake though even more than I loved Miss Fields. I ate with so ice cream which only made it even Better. try this out for yourself though. Let me know how it turns out.

Ingredients

• 3/4 cups of salted butter, softened
• 3/4 cups of brown sugar
• 1/4 cup of sugar
• 1 egg, at room temperature
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 cups all purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons of cornstarch
• 1 teaspoon of baking soda
• 1/8 teaspoon of salt
• 1 cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips (sometimes I put a little more, chocolate never hurt anyone)

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line your baking dish with parchment paper. (I used an 8 inch round one, you'll see why after it's all done.)
2. In a large bowl or mixer combine sugar and butter together until fluffy.
3. Next mix in your egg and your vanilla.
4. If you have a mixer I combine the put in the rest of the ingredients except the chocolate chips in the bowl and mix until dough in thick and can sticks together. If you are using an electric hand mixer you may want to mix all of the dry ingredients in a separate bowl (except chocolate chips) before mixing with wet ingredients.
5. Now you may stir in your chocolate chips.
6. Put dough in baking pan and press it down and speed it out even. 
7. Bake for about 20- 25 minutes until edges are brown. (if using a larger pan the cooking time will be less)
8. Let cool in pan for 30 minutes then transfer cool rack for duration of cool.
9. If you so desire frost your cookie cake once cool, or eat it with some ice cream or by itself It will taste wonderful no matter what.