Homemade Cookie Cake

I love making homemade cookie cakes! They are so easy and inexpensive. They taste just like the ones you would buy, too! The hardest part is the decorating. The more you make them the better you will get, I promise. 

If you try it out, let me know how it goes! I would love to see pictures :-)

Ingredients
Cookie cake
- tube of refrigerated cookie dough (I use Nestle)
- parchment paper
- pizza pan

Buttercream Icing
- 2 sticks (1 cup) of butter, room temperature
- 3 cups of powdered sugar
- 2 teaspoons milk
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Decorating
- ziploc bags (or icing bags)
- piping heads

Directions
Cookie Cake
1. Cover a pizza pan in parchment paper.
2. Roll the cookie dough onto the parchment paper. I normally use my hands to press it down first and then use a rolling pin. I also use my hands to shape the cookie into a circle.

3. Bake at 350 for 15(ish) minutes. Watch it. You want the edges to brown a little.

Mine was actually a little browner than I like

Buttercream Icing
1. Combine all ingredients and beat until smooth.

Decorating
1. If you are wanting different colors, separate some icing into different bowls and add food coloring. Wilson has some great colors (you can find them at Hobby Lobby).

2. If you don't have icing bags, use a ziploc bag. Cut the corner off and stick a piping head in the bag. Then load it up with icing.

3. Decorate!

I usually do one color at a time and guess on the space between. If it is a tad too much room, just squeeze a little more icing out when you are filling in the gap.