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

Cake Art


May the Cake be With You...




Everything is Awesome!

"Crab Cake" with a squeeze of "Lemon"

Once upon a time there was a girl who liked art and loved to bake. One day, a friend encouraged her to put the two together, and in a short time the girl was sculpting cakes for events up and down the California coast and had her very own little boutique cakerie.  


Along the way, she baked up something entirely different, wonderful, and even miraculous -- two little girls -- not made of sugar and spice, but of the real stuff:  chubby cheeks, golden hair, and lots of giggles. The girl who made cakes became the mother who played patty-cake, and she came to love this job above all others.  So the girl who became a mother set aside her whisk and her paint brushes, and set about devoting her time, love and energy to sculpting a beautiful and magical life for her two little cupcakes!


Here are a few photos of the cake creations from those earlier days of the girl and her boutique cakerie:


Bon Appetit!  

While certainly very crabby, this fellow was actually a very sweet and rich chocolate cake on the inside.


His "squeeze of lemon" was made of sugarpaste.






Lalaloopsy Cake



This cake was my interpretation of the client's Peter Max lithograph (in the background).




This was designed for a book club called "The Bookies"



Inspired by Mary Cecily Barker's Flower Fairies

Alice In Wonderland Birthday Party



The client asked me to replicate a hammered tin plaque she and her fiancé had purchased in Mexico.  It is made of sugarpaste, as are the scrolls banding the cake.


A little sugarpaste Eiffel Tower for a Francophile birthday girl

A baby octopus for a baby shower.  Pacifier and Rattle were made of sugarpaste.


Classic

A mix of fresh and sugarpaste flowers are joined by chocolate shoes and cross.

The folk art collection that inspired the cake.

The cake.

"An inside joke," is what I was told when a mom ordered this cake for her daughter's 19th birthday.




One of my signature desserts:  Chocolate Banded Parapets



Here are some tutorials for working with fondant that I've written for Rook No. 17:

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