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

Big Time Rush = Big Time Summer Fun!
+ How to drink up your own VIP Experience with Kool-Aid

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Disclosure: I am a member of the Collective Bias®  Social Fabric® Community.  This shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for Collective Bias and their client. #KoolAidBTRtour #shop (No Kool-Aid Jammers, hair follicles, or boy bands were hurt in the making of this post.)


For my best bud Geri, it was Menudo. I was a retro junkie, even as a kid, so my heartthrobs were the Monkees. And now, for my youngest daughter, it's Big Time Rush. That's right -- Boy Bands -- Good, squeaky clean pop music fun. Ever since Big Time Rush introduced their boy-band synth-pop on Nickelodeon in 2009, it's been nothing but "James [this]," and, "Kendall [that]," around here. So, when Kool-Aid and Walmart presented me with the opportunity to take my daughter to see the boys live in concert, I knew that this was a chance to make one young fan's dream come true.

 
Because the BTR tour is sponsored by Kool-Aid, I thought it would be fun to rock out our hair with a powdered drink mix treatment.  My nine-year-old daughter chose classic Grape Kool-Aid.  I went with a Kool-Aid Twister:  Ice Blue Raspberry Lemonade!



The seats were wonderful. Thank you Kool-Aid!

Justin Guthy, Olivia Somerlyn, and Victoria Justice were all fantastic! They put on a fabulous show. But this little fan...well...she was most excited for the main event...

You can see more photos from the concert in my Google+ album, HERE

The VIP tickets included early entrance for the bands' warm-up sessions, plus a meet and greet (with photo op) with the whole band!


 

WIN A VIP BIG TIME RUSH CONCERT EXPERIENCE!

Do you have a Victoria Justice or Big Time Rush fan in your family?  Yes? Read on...  You can enter to win a VIP experience with Big Time Rush on their Summer Break tour.  Enter by uploading a “Kool Creation” HERE. Getting creative with Kool-Aid is fun.  Check out THIS page of creative beverage recipes and inspiring crafts to help get your juices flowing (pun intended).  Good Luck! 

 

photo source: koolaid.com

If you'd rather not wait to be bopped by the good luck fairy, you can get a discount code for regular concert tickets by purchasing $6 worth of Kool-Aid and scanning your receipt into the Shoparoo app below.  

 

 "Go and shake it up!
Whatcha gotta loose?
Go and make your luck with the life you choose,
If you want it all,
Lay it on the line.
It's the only life ya got,
So ya gotta live it big time."

 ~Big Time Rush

 


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