Making a Giant Cookie. Tips?

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I’d like to make a giant cookie like this.

Can I just buy a few tubes of pre-made cookie dough and form one big cookie and bake it?
If so, should the dough be formed more like a pancake or dome?
Will the edges crisp long before the center is cooked?

Any experiences doing this?
Thanks in advance.

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You can, but it will be more like a bar cookie than a cookie cookie - that is, it won’t hold up under its own weight, so you’ll have to decorate, transport and serve it in the pan you cook it in. I’d use a disposable pizza pan if you’re taking it anywhere. At home, I often use a 9X9 baking pan for one log of refrigerated dough.

Go ahead and smoosh the dough to the edges, but don’t get too anal about it; it will spread some if it has the room to do so. Watch it carefully in the oven and take it out when you see the teeniest separation between the edge of the cookie and the pan, even if the middle still looks raw. The middle will still cook a bit after you take it out of the oven. Leave it in until the middle looks done, and it will *overcook *a bit after you take it out of the oven.

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I work in a bakery ( ehhh, really, we are a thawery.) for a megastore ( Meijer’s, if you are in the midwest.)

We sell chocolate chip cookie cakes like that. They are cheaper to buy than to make. $6.99 for a basic generic cookie. Usually, a blank one can be customized for free at most Megastore places.

Baking the cookie part is easy, it is either making the icing or buying the tubes of color that is where you run into more money as well.

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I have a question. I have cookie dough and when I make cookies from it, I always find that if they’re too big, they take too long to bake all the way through and if I keep them in too long, they start to burn. So I tend to make smaller, crunchier cookies, which I prefer. How would one go about, theoretically, making a huge cookie?

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I would use aluminum foil around the edges so that it wouldn’t burn before the innards cooked. :o

What!! :mad:

It works on turkeys!! :dubious:

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It works on pies, too. I wonder if it wouldn’t work on giant cookies, as well…

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Mmmmm…gooey inside of chocolate chip cookies… Yum.