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 cookie...

$30 Sweet Lulu GC Giveaway --
Make your Valentine Party Pretty!

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If you've ever taken a glance to the right of the posts at Rook No. 17, you may have noticed a button for my favorite online source for charming party accoutrements, decor, finery and fancies -- Shop Sweet Lulu!

Perhaps you caught a glimpse of the striped and polka-dotted paper straws I bought from Shop Sweet Lulu for my daughter's summer beach party in September...


...or the farmhouse milk bottles we used at the Toy Story Birthday party .



When I'm planning a party, I always know I'll find something extra special at Shop Sweet Lulu! 

 

Pictured above are some of my favorite items (clockwise):
Farmhouse Milk bottles, paper straws in colors and patterns for every occasion, push-up pop containers, and a kaleidoscope of baking cups!


If you're planning something sweet for Valentine's Day, you won't want to miss the party essentials and decorative whimsies at Shop Sweet Lulu. 


GIVEAWAY
I'm so delighted that Jessie of Shop Sweet Lulu has generously offered to give one lucky Rook No. 17 a $30 shopping spree at her online boutique!  Here's how to enter:


Mandatory for your FIRST entry (a single comment)
1)  "Follow" Rook No. 17 with Google Friends Connect (click "Follow" under "Birds of a Feather" on the left-hand sidebar). 
2)  "Like" Shop Sweet Lulu on Facebook.

If you have a "no-reply" account, be sure to leave your email address, so I can contact you if you win.

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Must be a resident of the U.S.

 GOOD LUCK!



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