Cake or ice cream? Tiara or party hat? Big bash or intimate celebration? We all like a birthday (or other festivity) with options. Not only can we gluten free peeps have our cake, but thanks to Betty Crocker Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookie Mix we have other tasty choices! I was super excited when I (insert modesty here) ingeniously decided to use Betty Crocker’s GF Cookie Mix to create a ginormous and scrumptious cookie cake! I’m sure you’ve all seen cookie cakes in your local grocery store. However, those cakes are loaded with gluten (boo hiss). So I easily made my own gluten free cookie cake and it ended up costing less than the price of a store bought cake! That’s a big ol’ win/win in my book.
Here’s how to make your very own gluten free cookie cake: follow the directions on the Betty Crocker gluten free cookie mix box. When cookie mix is a soft crumbly dough, transfer it to a 10 inch pie pan. Evenly press the cookie dough around the base of the pie pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 20 – 25 minutes (cookie will be light golden brown). Let cool completely before decorating. To decorate this cookie the size of sputnik, I used Betty Crocker Easy Flow Decorating Icing (it comes with four tips for different style options).
Before you blow out the candles, don’t forget to make a wish!
Disclaimer: please don’t judge me on my cake decorating “skills” cause I have none!
My best friend Kelly is an amazing person who serves as my confidant (and, ahem, part time shrink), my shopping partner, and my co-conspirator to surviving life here in good ol’ suburbia. In addition to all of that, Kelly is a fantabulous baker. Now, I know you jaded Celiacs are thinking, “Bully for Kelly. Let her bake a ton of delicious delights that we can only drool over.” But, on the contrary, one of the reasons I am so lucky is Kelly bakes GLUTEN FREE for me!
During one of our afternoon get togethers, I was ooh-ing over Kelly’s fresh-outta-the-oven batch of cookies when her son asked me if I wanted to eat one. I then explained to him that “Aunt Mo” can’t eat certain foods because it will make me sick. Blah, blah, blah – you’ve heard the story. Well, her darling son exclaims, “Mom, you’ve gotta make some cookies that Aunt Mo can eat!” Bless his little gluten eating heart.
A day later, Kelly arrives at my front door with a huge tray of sugar cookies! She altered her recipe to be gluten free and baked lil ol’ me a batch of the prettiest gluten free cookies EVER. I wanted to cry as I hadn’t had a sugar cookie for three years. Wow – it was like Christmas in July!!! So, after recovering from the fact that I had a tray full of gluten free cookies, I asked Kelly if she’d share her recipe for my blog. Her answer was a resounding “Yes! No one should have to live without baked goods!” Amen sista!
