Butterscotch, Walnut, and Chocolate Chip Giant Mother's Day Cookie

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Happy Mother's Day to all the moms (and fur moms) out there! This weekend's bake is special to my boyfriend and I. Since our parents live in Florida and we currently reside in Chicago, we won't be able to spend Mother's Day with them in person. So, I thought, why not celebrate both of them in a GIANT cookie? I took one of my mom's favorite flavors and one of my boyfriend's mom's favorite flavors and added them to a chocolate chip cookie, creating a butterscotch (my mom's favorite), walnut (boyfriend's mom's favorite), and chocolate chip Mother's Day cookie! And, since it is Mother's Day, I decided to shape the cookie into a heart, as well as write "Happy Mother's Day!" in pink buttercream frosting. I then decorated the sides of the cookie with purple buttercream frosting as pink, purple, and white pearl sprinkles. I went all out for this Mother's Day themed bake. 



Butterscotch, Walnut, and Chocolate Chip Cookie 

Ingredients:

  1.  2 sticks unsalted butter, melted
  2. 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
  3. 1 cup granulated sugar
  4. 3 cups all purpose flour
  5. 2 tablespoons vanilla extract
  6. 1 teaspoon salt
  7. 1 teaspoon baking soda
  8. 2 large eggs
  9. 1 1/2 cups mini chocolate chips
  10. 1 1/2 cup finely chopped walnuts
  11. 1 1/2 cup butterscotch chips

Instructions:

  1. Preheat oven to 350. Line one large baking tray with parchment paper. 
  2. In a microwave safe bowl, melt the two sticks of butter. Let it cool. 
  3. In a medium bowl, combine brown sugar, granulated sugar, and melted butter. 
  4. Once the butter and sugars are combined, add the vanilla extract and eggs. Mix to combine. 
  5. Add the salt, baking soda, and flour. Stir until everything is combined. The dough will be sticky. 
  6. Slowly fold in the chocolate chips, walnuts, and butterscotch chips. The dough should be full of all the tasty add-ins. 
  7. On the large parchment lined baking tray, scoop all of the dough onto the parchment paper and, using hands, shape the dough into a heart (or any shape). 
  8. Once shaped, put baking tray into the fridge to cool for 30 minutes. 
  9. Bake giant cookie for 20 minutes. The cookie will be just done and soft and chewy in the middle. 
  10. Let cool on tray for15 minutes before cooling completely on a wire rack. It will firm more as it cools.   


Buttercream Frosting

Ingredients:

  1. 3 cups powdered sugar
  2. 6 tablespoons milk
  3. 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  4. 1 stick unsalted butter, room temperature
  5. Pink and purple gel food coloring

Instructions:

  1. In a medium bowl, combine powdered sugar, butter, 3 tablespoons of milk, and vanilla extract. Combine ingredients until smooth, gradually adding in the last tablespoons of milk. The frosting should be stiff. 
  2. Split the frosting into two bowls and add a few drops of the gel food coloring in each bowl until desired color is reached.   

For Decorating

Ingredients:

  1. Purple and pink frosting in piping bags
  2. Purple, pink, and white pearl sprinkles
Instructions:
  1. Once cookie is cooled completely, use pink buttercream frosting to pipe "Happy Mother's Day!" in the middle of the cookie. 
  2. Using the purple buttercream frosting, pipe desired design around the shape of the cookie. Add sprinkles on top of the purple buttercream. 
It was seriously so much fun making this GIANT cookie! It is by far the largest cookie I've ever attempted to create and I'm so happy with how it turned out, shape and flavor wise. It's been a long time since I've written on any baked good and only made enough frosting to pipe what I wanted it to say, so I was pretty nervous that I would mess up the "Happy Mother's Day!" but it turns out, I still have the skill of piping words. I was so happy that I clapped. It was just fun adding in new flavors to a cookie and making it giant. It's going to take my boyfriend and I DAYS to finish this giant cookie and I'm so excited! 

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