Ooey Gooey Cookie Cake

If you're like my dad and I, then you love cookies!  I was cruising around Facebook the other day and I saw a video link for this wonderful one-pan cookie cake and that's something I have wanted, but yet to attempt to make.  The video made it seem so simple that I decided to get up yesterday and make it!  It's so ooey and gooey, it's heaven in a pan if you ask me!  Here's my version of the recipe:

Ingredients:

• 5 tbsp melted unsalted butter
• 1/2 cup light brown sugar
•  *If you want to, you can use 1/3 cup of dark brown sugar instead, I just prefer light brown.
• 1/4 cup white sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1¼ cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips 
• *If you want it really chocolaty like me, then feel free to use 3/4 cup, but the general consensus in my house was that it was too chocolaty.

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 375°F.
2. In a 9" pan, pour in the melted butter, brown sugar, and white sugar.  Combine the three using a spatula or a wooden spoon. 
3. Add in the egg first, then the vanilla extract carefully, and then mix.  This should reduce the amount of splashing and spilling you have.
4. Next, pour in all of the dry ingredients and mix until incorporated.  I found it easier to do this part by hand, but you will get messy.  
5. Fold in the chocolate chips and then spread the dough out evenly.  The dough will be sticky so I suggest using a piece of parchment paper to smooth it out.  Make sure dough is pushed out to the edges. 
6. Bake for 10-12 minutes or until the edges are lightly golden brown.
7. Top with your favorite cookie accompaniment, whether it's ice cream or frosting, or leaving it bare.  Pour a glass of milk and enjoy!

I thoroughly enjoyed making and eating this!  It's a great, need dessert quick recipe that's bound to be loved by many!  As always, pictures of it will come later :)  Here's the original recipe here, but the video that I watched isn't up here.  Always feel free to check out the original.  Tweak either recipe until you find the mixture that best fits you.  Leave a comment to the changes you made or any questions you have about the recipe :)

In reference to the wooden spoon, I highly suggest this if you enjoy baking.  Wooden spoons will, over time, soak in the flavors it's exposed to and will incorporate some of those flavors into what you're mixing.  This being said, make sure you have a wooden spoon that's devoted to your sweets and pastries.  You don't want to have a hint of tomato sauce in your brownies. :)