Chonky Boys: The Chocolate Chip Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches that Scream Summer!

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Featuring my thick and nuggy Chonky Boy Chocolate Chip Cookies, these ice cream sandwiches are the stuff that summer dreams are made of.  If you've ever had the Cookie Ice Cream Sandwich at Disneyland , you are going to LOVE these!  These big and bold chocolate chip cookies are based on a recipe from my culinary school studies at Auguste Escoffier, but with a few modifications to give them that Jennuine touch.  They make the perfectas book for a fat slice of real vanilla bean ice cream.  And those mini chips?  You just gotta have that extra cronch! Thank goodness this recipe only makes 8 sandwiches, otherwise I would be eating them for breakfast lunch and dinner.  This way, my big family can help save me from my inner child diet-saboteur.   Print With Image Without Image Chonky Boy Chocolate Chip Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches Yield: 8 Author: Jenn Erickson Loaded with chocolate chips and buttery, brown-sugary vanilla flavor, these mall-sized cookies form a perfect partnership with a

Shabby Chic Mob Cab -- Shower Cap Tutorial


I think my affinity for colonial era mob caps can be traced all the way back to when I was a child, swept up in the whimsy of my grandmother's childhood storybooks, illustrated by Kate Greenaway.


My little girls love bubble baths.  Who doesn't?  When their hair is already clean and shiny from a morning shower, and a bubble bath becomes a part of the evening agenda, it's great to be able to slip an adorable shower cap over their golden tresses.  I found an easy tutorial for a mob style shower cap on SewDelish.  


Here's how I made my own version:


Shabby Chic Mob Cap Shower Cap
(adapted from the SewDelish tutorial)
Level:  Beginner

Materials
  • 1 sheet posterboard or large paper
  • 22" square of lightweight cotton print or satin fabric
  • 22" square of thin plastic 
  • (I used a $3 shower curtain liner from Target)
  • 1 package satin or cotton bias tape, coordinating color
  • (extra wide, double fold, 3 yards)
  • 2 yards Vivid Pink Rose Lace Trim 
  • 1/2" elastic, approx. 24" inches in length
  • Small safety-pin
  • pins, coordinating threads, scissors, tape measure, pencil, tweezers or craft stick, sewing machine



Step 1:  Make a pattern by cutting a 21.5" circle from the posterboard.


Step 2:  Use the pattern to trace and cut a 21.5" circle from both the fabric and the plastic.  Pin together with wrong sides facing each other.


Step 3:  Stitch all the way around the edge.  Remove pins.  


Step 4:  Open up bias tape and pin to the plastic side of the shower cap as pictured above (lining up outer edge to outer edge).  Stitch in place.  Remove pins.


Step 5:  Fold tape over to the other side and stitch in place.  


Step 6:  Pin the rose lace trim so that the bottom edge of the roses nearly meets the bias tape.  The tulle should overlap the bias tape.  Your stitches will run just above the bias tape.


Step 7:  Now stitch the topside of the trim, just above the rosettes.
  

Step 8:  Using a tape measure and pins, measure 2.5" - 3" (depending on how deep you want the ruffled brim) from the outside edge of the cap.  Open-up bias tape and pin in place.

  
 Step 9:  Stitch on both sides to form a casing for the elastic.


Step 10:  Attach a safety-pin to the elastic and thread through the casing.


Step 11:  Tie both ends of the elastic together loosely and try the hat on your model.  Adjust tightness of elastic if necessary, then re-tie the elastic tightly and push back in to the casing using tweezers or a craft stick.
  

The finished cap can be washed in a cold water gentle cycle in the washing machine, or with warm water by hand.



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