Cookie cake
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| name = Cookie Cake
| image = 160920-N-XP344-013 (29519508330).jpg
| caption = A custom-decorated cookie cake
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| country = United States
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| creator = Michael J. Coles and Arthur Karp
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| type = Dessert
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| main_ingredient = Cookie dough, icing
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A cookie cake is a dessert that consists of a large cookie, which is baked similarly to a batch of regular-sized cookies and usually decorated with frosting.{{cite web |url=https://www.cookie-cake.com/2015/04/what-is-a-cookie-cake/ |title=Cookie-Cake.com |access-date=2 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403125537/https://www.cookie-cake.com/2015/04/what-is-a-cookie-cake/ |archive-date=3 April 2015 |url-status=dead }} Cookie cakes are made with cookie dough, generally by adjusting the portions of existing cookie recipes to match the size of the pan used for baking.{{cite web |url=http://sallysbakingaddiction.com/2014/03/18/chocolate-chip-cookie-cake/ |title=Sally's Baking Addiction| date=18 March 2014 }} Cookie cakes can be baked in a variety of sizes; they are also served and sliced in sections, similarly to cakes and pies.
The Cookie Cake was first conceived by Michael J. Coles and Arthur Karp, two businessmen who wanted to get into the cookie business and founded the company Great American Cookies.{{cite web | url=https://www.greatamericancookies.com/our-story/ | title=Our Story }} Coles was inspired to use his grandmother's chocolate chip cookie recipe after visiting a busy cookie shop in a San Diego mall.
Cake batter can be layered on top of a layer of cookie dough with pie crust and iced after baking to form a cookie cake pie.{{cite book |author=Carolyn Wyman |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XXb0AQAAQBAJ&q=cookie+cake+pie |title=The Great American Chocolate Chip Cookie Book: Scrumptious Recipes & Fabled History From Toll House to Cookie Cake Pie |date=2013 |publisher=The Countryman Press |isbn=9781581571622 |page=87}}{{cite web |author=Linda Falkenstein |date=12 October 2011 |title=Cookbook cues: "CakeSpy Presents Sweet Treats for a Sugar Filled Life" by Jessie Oleson |url=http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=34904 |access-date=22 June 2018 |publisher=Red Card Media |archive-date=18 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120418113515/http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=34904 |url-status=dead }}