Wannabe Recipea: Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake
I don’t even know what a Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake is. But Lauren does. And she emailed me and asked me to make one. Today seemed like as good a day as any.
Do you ever wake up and the sun feels like it is shining directly on you? And there’s no specific reason, but you just feel happy to just be alive?
I live for days like today.
It was day six for me without coffee. No one died. Praise God!
My child told me that she hates the cat food aisle. Why? “Because it smells like cat food!” Perfect.
I had the indescribable pleasure of singing in the car at the top of my lungs–six verses of “I Like To Eat Eat Eat Apples and Bananas,” even though there are only five vowels. (“Opples and Banonos” are so fun we sing “O” twice).
There was a goose in the kitchen and I asked Lulu what was stinky. She looked up at me and said in her little Lulu voice, “It was me, Mom, I’m the only one here.”
It was a day to celebrate being alive.
A day for Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake.
Hallelujah!
Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake
Makes one 9-in. cookie cake
- 1 c. whole wheat pastry flour
- 1/2 c. all-purpose flour
- 1/2 t. baking soda
- 1/2 t. baking powder
- 1/2 t. salt
- 1/4 c. unsweetened applesauce
- 1/2 c. coconut oil
- 1/3 c. brown sugar
- 1/3 c. organic sugar
- 2 T. non-dairy or organic milk
- 1 flax “egg” (1 T. whole flax—ground and mixed with 3 T. water)
- 2/3 c. dark chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Lightly grease the bottom and sides of a 9-inch springform pan and set aside.
Prepare your flax “egg” and set aside to thicken.
In a large bowl or the bowl of your stand mixer, combine flours, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
Add applesauce, coconut oil, sugars and non-dairy milk.
Add flax “egg” and beat all together until combined.
Add chocolate chips and give it one more spin.
Spread batter evenly in the bottom of the springform pan.
Bake for 25-30 min. until middle is set and cookie cake is golden brown.
Allow the cookie cake to cool. Don’t even touch it for at least 30 minutes.
Then, remove the springform edges.
Step back and look at what you’ve done.
I’m told you can decorate these cookie cakes with frosting and special messages like “Happy Birthday!” or “It Was Me, Mom, I’m the Only One Here!”
But me? I had something else in mind.
Enter ice cream.
(If we’re being specific, this is So Delicious Vanilla Bean Coconut Ice Cream. They weren’t kidding. So delicious.)
I may not have known what a Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake was a day ago.
But I sure do now.
It’s moist, fudgy, cakey and chewy. It’s the best of both worlds.
I live for days like today.
Hallelujah, amen.
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This post is part of a series called “Wannabe Recipeas,” where I makeover your favorite recipes and then follow up with your comments, photos, and reviews! If you have a recipe you’d like to see become a recipea, and you are willing to make and give me feedback on the new recipea (either via your blog or by emailing me), please email me at peasandthankyou@hotmail.com and put “Wannabe Recipeas” in the subject line.
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I LOVE cookie cakes! Josh surprised me with one for my birthday two weeks ago! Yours looks amazing, and reminds me I really need to get a springform pan! I made a granola bar today that really could have used it!
Granola bar pie…I like it!
It was really good! It was a peanut butter granola crust and topping with apricot preserves in the middle. I topped it with some frozen yogurt! It was almost like a granola cobbler.
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Yum! Looks good!
Thanks!
Oooooh, this looks SO GOOD!… MUST try it SOON!
I LOVE THIS POST! I can FEEL the energy just reading it, and I recognize that energy!
congrats on six days, my friend, and for happy days like today!
Two green juices today, girl! Organic kale was on sale at Fred Meyer.
LOVE when that happens!
With this cake, every day would be a day to celebrate being alive! Which means I need to make it soon, because I keep accidentally putting on my mopeypants this week.
Thanks MamaPea.
Oooh, sorry about the mopeypants. You can borrow my kiddos, they don’t believe in mopeypants. Or any pants, for that matter.
Oops, forgot to ask… Do you happen to know if a chia seed “egg” would work in place of the flax? Thanks in advance!
I don’t see why not!
Great, I’ll give it a shot! Thank you!
this is getting bookmarked immediately.
Like.
My husband says “who stepped on a duck”? He toots like nobody’s business. srlsy.
Who stepped on a duck? I love that! I’m using it.
haha that’s what my boyfriend uses, too! Too funny.
MAMA PEA! This is so creepy! I NEVER bake, and My Love asked me to make chocolate chip cookies this week, and I did! I posted about them today on my blog too! So strange! I used a similar recipe, I used blended apple in place of oil, a flax egg, and I used almond flour and whole wheat flour. I also sweetened with dates! So sweet about little Lulu.
Great minds think alike!
I pretty much don’t do cookies anymore (my poor lonely cookie jar) bars are my faves- or cakes. It is SOOOOO much easier since there is no individual scoops. YUM! with the ice cream!!!
Ooh, this would work great in bars too…kind of a blondie!
Exactly!!! YUM ….oh, if you swapped the regular white sugar for maple syrup and traded the chocolate chips for walnuts it would be like the maple walnut blondies at applebees
Now you’re talking…
You just make me laugh! The recipe looks perfect as well, so excited to try it and make it GF:)
So when I read “Hallelujah!” at the end of your post I immediatley pictured Tyler Perry playing Madea in one of his crazy funny movies. He says “Hallelujah” in this kinda nazel voice and it is hysterical:) So your post made me laugh and then I got a great extra at the end. Love it!
I’ll take a laugh however I can get it.
Oh, I remember the opples and bononos – why was that the best verse?! Mind you, I reckon upples and bununus was close
My six-year-old nephew told me seriously the other day that some gingerbread men he and my mum had made were “good for you”. I wondered just how healthy they were till my mum said they’d used gluten-free flour “so Auntie Eleanor can eat them too”… maybe not healthy but he had the right-ish idea!
This cake looks perfect too
Oh, that’s so sweet they made them for you!
You’ve never heard of a cookie cake?! Granted, I’ve only heard them referred to as “cookie pies,” but they looked sooo delicious in the Mrs. Fields display cases. My parents never got them for me but one time I went to a friend’s birthday party and it was amazing!
Was it frosted? I’ve never seen such a thing!
You’ve never seen a Great American Cookie Company in the malls???? Oh my they are delicious!!
Can I sub a real egg in place of the ‘flax egg’, or do you think I’ll need more than 1 egg?
We don’t have a Great American Cookie Company here. Must not be on the West Coast? I’m not going to tell you to de-veganize the recipe….but 1 egg would probably work just fine.
I’m about a week into this no coffee thing, too. I will win! I think I should celebrate with this cake! Love the addition of ice cream!
Good for you! I think you should celebrate with this cake too…and a nice cup of herbal tea.
it looks awsome!!!! I have to try it asap – but… I don’t have coconut oil at home
what else could I use instead?
You could use Earth Balance or even peanut butter
I read your reply too late. But I tried Coconut Milk instead – worked really well!
That looks totally amazing and perfect!!! I can’t wait to make it. Thanks, Mama Pea!
I HATE the pet aisle too!!! I never go through it. And don’t get me started on the pet stores; now that we have a puppy, I’m forced to go in and smell that smell!
Doesn’t the puppy make worse smells?
This would probably be gone in 1.5 days between me & D, that is cookie cake perfection! I’ve never liked the taste of frosting on a cookie (way too sweet), but ice cream?? That can go on anything.
I’m with you.
I love to eat eat eat chocolate chip cookie cake!
Ha ha ha! Cute!
You are amazing. This looks absolutely incredible!!! Mmmmm!
It wouldn’t last very long at my house. 
Ours is half gone…in less than 12 hours.
I’m impressed!
Congrats on the 6 days Mama Pea! And conveniently, I just bought my first springform pan last week to make a pumpkin cake… I know what I’m making in it next!
Well that is fortuitous!
This looks amazingly yummy! And just perfect for another marathon baking day tomorrow. Seriously who in their right mind hosts two birthday parties in one week for a 2 year old?! I havnt traded in my green smoothie for a glass of red yet so at least that’s something;)
Good for you! I hope your kiddo is loving every second and that you get a little respite this weekend.
Chocolate chip cookies + cake + chocolate = favorite food groups for me!
I love how you made this dense, almost bar-like cake using choc chip cookie dough..reminds me of one of those giant cookie-cake birthday cakes that they write on with neon blue frosting things like Happy Bday and that most kids beg their parents to buy them for their bday..except you made it vegan and as healthy as desserts can get.
Bravo!
I am not the best frosting piper, so there was no chance that was happening.
Deeeelish! I’ve been wanting to make a cookie in a skillet pan for awhile and this just reminded me of that… YUM!
Ooh, yes, I guess you could also use a cast iron skillet for this. Good thinking!
yum! I will be making this soon!!
this just looks dangerous. i’ll be hiding it from nate whilst i drool over it and eat it
otherwise i have no chance!
UM, wow. Git in mah belly now! Thank you for making this. The world is now a better place.
I love how you repeat “O” twice in that song. A Peas webisode of this would be awesome! Haha.
It really is the cutest thing.
Woooooweeeee that looks yummy! Congrats on 6 days without java.
We have barking spiders in our house. Makes no sense, I know. I’m definitely going to use the goose.
Geese are a lot less creepy than spiders in my book.
Cookie cake is one of those things I LOVE to eat, but have never attempted to make on my own. Now it looks like that’s about to change!
This was super, super easy. You can do it!
Chocolate Chip Cookie cakes are SO good! I have enjoyed them many times in my life, of course, not the healthier version like you have here ; )
I really think I could survive without coffee, I just have no reason to not want to have coffee , if I did, I know I could though ! Go you!
Happy Thursday! xoxo <3
I guess I have been missing out, not having these cookie cakes. I guess I have no idea if this is close to the real one or not!
This looks fantastic. I’ve made chocolate chip bars before but never have I put the batter in a cake pan to make a cookie cake. I’ve seen them in the grocery store but, obviously, baked goods in the store can NEVER compare with homemade goodies.
Yum!!
I bet wrapped up in individual slices these would make a cute and different offering for a Christmas cookie exchange.
What AM I thinking? Christmas already? I’m going to go and crawl back into my Fall hole and stay there for a while.
You are right on pace with the retailers.
I love cookie cake and yours looks fantastic! Also, I love that pan and how easy it is to just snap off and let the cake cool down. Where did you buy it at?
Honestly, I got the pan with a set of pans that we registered for at Macy’s…almost eight years ago! I bet you can find one at Target or Bed, Bath and Beyond, though.
Well, that looks delicious!!!
This looks super yummy! Going to try this over the weekend. I made your peanut butter dough balls this past weekend. They are all gone already : ( Such a great recipe!!
Hope you like this one as well!
I made a cookie cake for my husband’s birthday and secretly wished I had a Mama Pea version to make instead! So glad I have this one from you now and not that modified Emeril recipe I used — bam!
I’m super curious about this Emeril version now!
Here’s the recipe: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/emeril-lagasse/giant-chocolate-chip-cookie-cake-recipe/index.html (I didn’t use as much butter (and it was non-dairy butter), used egg whites and applesauce, skipped the extra chocolate chips and omitted the nuts. Just semi-sweet chips and not quite as many as he suggested. It was good but too sweet.) I’m sure yours is better!
This was a super happy post to start my day with! Yesterday was rough with two exams, but I’m quoting Anne of Green Gables that “tomorrow is fresh with no mistakes in it yet”. The only mistake would be to not take advantage of baking this cake!! Looks positively glorious — I can hear the angels singing…and ducks quacking
Ha ha ha….hopefully you are the only one there.
love cookie cakes! I grew up with them and always wanted them for my birthdays!
it has been awhile since I have made one, umm that needs to change!
I bet you guys could make an awesome raw version!
Chocolate chip cookies are my favorite, so I have no doubt this cake would also top the list! Yum!
Question for you – do you have to use a springform pan?
You are going to want a round pan with sides. You could use a cake pan, but since the diameter is smaller, it’s going to be a little bit taller of a cake. So if you don’t mind that, then go right ahead! Just make sure to grease the sides well.
this looks really yummy! I may be trying my hand at a gluten free version.
Apples and Bananas is one of my daughter’s favorite songs right now (right after The Wheels on The Bus)… I’ve been known to be singing it to my self.. even if she isn’t around.. because we sing it so much! Which is kind of embarrassing when I’m in public. I get a few odd looks.
I was so impressed that Lu knows every word. Of course, there are only about seven words, but still!
I love chocolate chip cookie cakes. My friends and I used to always get one for movie nights back in high school. Yours is probably much better, though. Mainly because it doesn’t come from the Dominick’s bakery section. lol
Wow, this look so good! Definitely going to test it out this weekend
Any day that calls for a chocolate chip cookie cake is a good day in my book.
And the So Delicious Vanilla Bean Coconut Ice Cream?! Yeah. INcredible. I also love their fruit sweetened vanilla ice cream. Can’t beat it.
YOU MADE A VEGAN PIZOOKIE.
oh my lordy yum .
http://www.bjsbrewhouse.com/menus/desserts
(most delicious thing in the world)
I’ve never had one of those either!!!
Next birthday in our family, this is making an appearance! I sometimes still sing “opples and bononos” and I don’t have any kids. That song stays with you for life.
I love the idea of using the springform pan so that you can actually see the whole thing and get it out of the pan!
I’ve had a springform pan on my list for awhile… and now I NEED to get one!
I remember singing that song as a child. Teach Gigi how to play it on her recorder – do you have earplugs?
But she only knows one note!
I’m so making this. Maybe even tonight. It looks easy enough. I’m a chocolate chip addict!!
Mama Pea- I just read your Tofu Dippers post and wanted to say (again) that I admire you tremennnnndously for the way you’re raising you girls and also that I hope when I have kids, my little girl is unconventional like me (and you and Gigi) and lets me pack her ‘weird’ things for lunch and reads historical biographies
Thanks, Elizabeth
This looks so good and easy! I’m currently trying to think of a reason to make it for someone…
i’m with whoever thinks the cat food aisle stinks of cat food. i’m 25 years old and i hold my nose when walking by!
It’s Lulu. She doesn’t see how this works against her getting a dog, though.
yeah, explaining that logic to a 3 year old might be tough! she’ll claim dog food smells differently (it doesn’t.)
Yum! One of my favorite desserts my mom makes is chocolate chip cookie pie. I love love love it. This looks like a healthier version that I’m definitely going to try! I’ll share it with my family too.
I need that now! Will make it this weekend when the boyfriend is in town!
So, 2 questions:
1: can I use chia seeds in place of flax for the egg?
2: can I use a round cake pan if I don’t have a spring form pan?
Make that three questions:
Can I come to your house for cookie cake? It is only a 5 hour flight away!!
Yes, yes and yes.
YUM! That looks so good! I think I might have to try it. I need to buy flax, I haven’t used it before.
It makes a great egg substitute!
Haha that is too funny! I used to sing along to the Ipples and Bininies song too. My kids are older now so its Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez now but man do I remember those Raffi days
This recipe looks delicious, gonna try it!!!!
Thanks <3
My kids don’t know who Justin Beiber is. Yet.
This looks delicious! I’ll have to give it a try. Don’t have a springform pan though…think a glass pie pan would work?
Tried making Red Velvet cupcakes yesterday and got the epic fail. My batter seamed foamy and the cupcakes fell.
I think I’m more of a cook than a baker…
I’m just worried it would raise over the edge of your pie pan. It gets pretty poofy!
yum! my husband LOVES cookie cakes from the grocery store and the 4 page long ingredient lists make me cringe. will have to try this out on my cookie cake connoisseur.
mmm i want one. with a message that says “eat me”
I was wondering if I can use canola oil instead of coconut oil
I’d use more of a solid fat. The canola will be to wet. I’d use a vegan margarine (i.e. Earth Balance) or a nut butter if you don’t have coconut oil.
Oh my that looks good!!!
Love Lulu – I love it when little kids are so literal!
My husband requested your black bean burgers for a second night in a row. It was all great until he asked where the top of his bun was…and I realized one of the cats had jumped on the counter and put it on the floor so she could take little slobbery bites all over the top of it. I gave him mine and had my burger open faced.
See, Pea Kitty would fit right in at my house! ha ha ha!!!
MMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmm. I’ll make that for sure.
I knew there was a reason I owned a springform pan! And I love Lulu’s honesty.
I’m in love. Seriously cookie cake’s better than actual cake any day!
This looks really, really good.
Oh I have almond butter but i dont use flax i use the egg replacer im buying a coffee grinder next month to grind some flex
It was me mom, I’m the only one here.
I love!!!
Never heard of chocolate chip cookie cake, it must be made ASAP.
What i love about this recipe is…that i already have all the ingredients in my kitch!!
I’m going to make this today. it does seem like it’s one of those days! i do feel happy to be alive! Oh the only thing i’m missing is the round springform pan thingie you have. Do you think it will work with a rectangular pyrex? I’ve used that for my brownies before.
Sure, it should work fine!
Please stop making drool worthy things that I want to eat through the computer screen, but I can’t, so I realize that I actually have to MAKE it myself, which I can’t because I look at your delicious things right before work or while at school or just before bed it seems. And yes, I understand the midnight baking thing is so acceptable, but I’m not there yet. Send me a cookie cake and then I’ll think about it!
Yum. fantastic idea…I love that all of those ingredients are already in my kitchen! : )
S, my birthday is on Monday and I’d love both you and this cake to show up on my doorstep that morning. Peas and thank you.
If only I could make that happen! Happy early birthday, friend.
Great recipea makeover! You can never have enough chocolate chips in anything…
Can you work on a pb granola recipe? It’s not a makeover but would sound tasty coming from you! Otherwise I’d love to see a vegan version of key lime pie…i miss it so much after not having dairy anymore!!!
I’ve made both of those before…just need to tweak and post ‘em! Hope you are well!
No coffee? You’re a stronger person than I am.
And I hate the cat food aisle, too.
I too have attempted a coffee cold turkey week!! However….. Day Four had it in for me. After fighting the urge to get a coffee for three days, I relented and bought a Latte. But it was half strength, so made me feel a little less guilty! And I won’t lie. It was amazing.
Cookie cake looks absolutely delicious. Yum.
Ha ha ha…you’re killing me Kathleen! And it’s national coffee day!
That looks just like a giant chocolate chip cookie!
I want one. Immediately.
THAT LOOK SO GOOD!!!!! Mama Pea, you are the best!
Growing up, I thought the song went, “I like to eat, eat, eat monkeys and bananas.” I had the hardest time with lyrics
I just made this for a potluck. it’s so delicious. i believe my boyfriend’s exact words were, “Dear God. This is amazing.”
that it was. Thanks for the recipe!
Dang, girl, you are fast! So glad you guys liked it!
INCREDIBLE! I love cookie cake…..aaaah the childhood memories!
I must resist making these cookies, I must resist making these cookies…
All’s well that ends well and these cookies look incredible!
Have a happy week.
Um no, nope, I don’t think so. I made a blondie cookie pie/cake whatever you want to call it a few weeks ago….biggest mistake ever. One slice is like five cookies and I couldn’t stop with it. It was just too good. So this isn’t happening. It’s NOT going to happen darn it.
Excuse me while I spend an hour in the kitchen making this.
Ha ha ha…
Love this recipe, Mama Pea! Cookie cake is probably one of my top 5 favorite “special occasion” foods, can’t wait to try this one! Also, did you notice that the banner ad on the top of your page is for Crisco?? Doesn’t seem like something you’d ever promote- what’s up with that?
I absolutely love the stories in your first book, and I can’t wait for your second one. I am sure you will have many more tales to include in it. How exciting!
I can’t wait for your next book! I would love to see more lunch box ideas for kids!
Hi, and many congratulations on your second book deal! Also good job on working on the coffee addiction. The Thin Mint cookies look KILLER, I miss those ole non-vegan thin mint Girl Scout cookies. I’d love to see some crockpot recipes in your next book. (I hope this was an ok place to leave a comment, I couldn’t find a comment button at the bottom of your post with the big announcement.)
Good luck on the next book! What an undertaking. I have the cookie cake recipe ready to go this weekend, so I hope it would be an official entry!
Hooray!!! I’m so excited for you (and for me)!! I think that the new categorization method you will be using is genius! Honestly, I just love all of your recipes so whatever you put in the book, I will eat up (literally and figuratively). My favorite meals are the simplest ones with the least amount of ingredients/prep-work possible. It’s much easier to come home and make dinner after a crazy day of work when it takes less time to cook than to wait for the vegan pizza man to deliver.
Congrats on the new book deal! So excited for you. I’d like to see one or two crock-pot recipeas! I make the African Peanut Stew at least monthly (even in summer) and would love more like that. Good luck! Enjoy the process!
So happy you are doing a second book! I LOVE all of your recipeas. Your writing is second-to-none.
I have always liked tofu, but now I love it with your suggestions! Your salads are out of this world and I could go on and on. Keep it all coming.
Your new categorization method is the perfect addition.
Finally, I do have to agree with another comment that maybe a couple of crock-pot recipeas would be nice.
Yay! Glad to hear a second book is in the works. I’d love to see a recipea for alfredo yum sauce (If there’s already one, please forgive me — I haven’t bought the first book yet, but intend to!)
Just curious, whose cat is Pea Kitty? I’m still new to Peas and Thank You, and haven’t had time to go through all of your posts, but I’m guessing Pea Kitty is Pea Daddy’s cat.
Yes indeed.
Now that we know how you got pea daddy to start thinking about a healthier way of eating, I like to hear about how you handle others outside your home. Since food is so social I run into a lot of times when we are enjoying a meal with others who have their own way of eating. You seem to have really good realistic and non-preachy ways to handle school treats, birthday parties, extended family dinners, lunches and all of the social activities that goes along with an active family. And I’d love to hear more stories and tips on how these kinds of things work. Did your parents balk when you told them your family was going vegan? Do you always bring a vegetarian entree to cookouts or Thanksgiving? I am sure you have great tips for those of us transitioning to a healthier way of eating on how to handle these situations!
Oh wow congratulations Mama Pea! That is fabulous news. We love the first book. I would be interested to read more helpful hints on how to help small children learn to love (or simply just eat) their veggies as well as school lunch ideas.
We are happily working our way through the first book and loving the food. We look forward to book #2.
There aren’t many times when I see a recipe on a blog and feel like I have to go make it, Right. Now. This was one of them, and I made it last night. It was amazingly delicious, and my husband and I ate half of it. I made him put away the other half before I devoured the rest of it. YUM!
Also, I love the first book and can’t wait for the second! Big congrats!
I really enjoy your blog (silent reader for a long time!) and am also enjoying your first book. I would like to see some simpler (less ingredients, steps and non-nutritive sweeteners) in your new book, While inspiring, I more often than not, actually make vegan meals involving simpler combinations (alas, I have no kids with finicky tastebuds to please!) But, I love your creativity and humor nonetheless, Sarah!
I haven’t made your dough balls, so would love the opportunity to taste a batch baked by you!
I started subscribing to your blog about 2 months ago maybe, so I’m sorry to say I haven’t even gotten my hands on your first book…so I don’t know what’s in it and what’s not. I will say however, I love the way you write, your light-heartedness, your humor, and the love for your family. I’m not a mother yet, but hope to be someday and I love the sense of family you have brought into the kitchen. I think it’s awesome. Something I always wonder is how do parents feel when their children decide to go against how they were brought up eating? How will that effect how your family eats?
I do love your pumpkin spice latte recipe by the way!
Thanks!
Well, I cant comment on what id like to see more of because I havent gotten the book! Ive been dying for it though, but seriously with a wedding in less than a month I am BROKE so I would just love to win it
Otherwise it will have to wait for christmas. 
Congratulations, Sarah! I am excited for you and I must admit, really excited for me, since yours has become my main cookbook since finding it by happy accident this summer. (And I am a major cookbook collector, so it is even a bigger compliment!) I’d love to see a few crockpot recipes as well (I have been savoring the African Sweet Potato Soup as well, along with a great quinoa recipe with roasted almonds, dried cranberries and middle eastern spices…good match, oddly enough!) Also, any main dishes for a family of one vegan (me), a vegetarian-leaning teenage daughter, and two die-hard omnivores (husband and 13-year son) who tolerate some meatless meals but get cranky if I say “vegan” too much. They will eat baked goods readily if I don’t announce their vegan origin, but main dishes (even if delicious) are harder. Also, noone but me will eat Daiya….SO any suggestions here are welcome.
On a different note…I’d love a recipe for vegan lemon bars and those lacey cookie sandwiched with dark chocolate….Hope it was ok to comment here, since it didn’t seem to work on your book announcement page. Again, CONGRATULATIONS. I can’ t wait! Laura
And one more comment, really a question…are ground flax and flax meal different? If so, which should be used for this cookie cake recipe? Thanks again, Laura
Wow – congratulations!!!! I am working on book #1 with my firm now, and we have a signed contract for #2 (eek!) — so I know how much work it is! Very impressive!
I’d love a lighter recipe for the classic thankgiving favorites… stuffings, casseroles, etc. The holidays are right around the corner! Congratulations again
I would love some hints on how to extract every last bit of goodness from under the blades of my vitamix—I am stingy and i hate feeling as though i am wasting one drop of food. My particular problem is with foods that have a consistency like hummus. Thanks for any tips!!
Love your story on the goose…totally understand. I adopted a goose 1 1/2 years ago when I had gastric bypass…man my goose is so stinky it can peel paint from the walls…but that is another story!
Do you watch “Chopped” on the food network? They had a competitor that had a top knot just like Gigi. When I saw her I instantly said “That’s Gigi with red lipstick!
THIS is always my birthday cake. Every year since I can remember, I request a chocolate chip cookie cake, so happy early birthday to me
PS: CONGRATS on the new book!!! I’m so, so excited for you.
I’m so excited that you are working on book #2! I have been cooking my way through book #1 with great results on every recipe. I was not a follower of your blog but bought the book because the “recipeas” looked great for my family. Now I am sure to log on everyday to check out the happenings of the Pea family and get any new recipes. In fact, my children were eating some cookies the other day and one of them said “They are good, but not as good as Mama Pea’s!”. They enjoy your blog too… I think they might have a little crush on Gigi and Lulu (they are 5 yr old twin boys).
Would love to see some more lunch ideas (we are a nut-free school so it is sometimes challenging).
I have two sons, ages 8 and 11. They both have severe allergies to peanuts and tree nuts;basically all nuts and nut products. I can’t wait for new book. I would cook and bake more of the recipes if I knew what I could substitute for the nuts. I would love to see a key in your new book that indicates a “nut free” recipe. For those recipes that have nuts perhaps a footnote at the bottom of the recipe that says how to modify it to make it nut free. Thanks!
Congratulations on your new book! I have your first book and really enjoyed the spicy African peanut slow cooker soup with red lentils, pumpkin oat bran with almond butter (I made a double batch and ate it all week for breakfast this week), and roasted chick peas with lemon and rosemary. I also made the Thai fried quinoa with coconut milk, scallions, and peas from your blog and threw in some edamame and cashews. It was yummy. You do such a wonderful job crafting ethnic vegetarian fare. In your new book I would like more ethnic food. Love your blog.
I would L-O-V-E a copy of the book because I haven’t gotten around to buying yet. Thank you for the opportunity! I am really, really excited about the next book and can’t wait until you release the name for it! I love your dough balls as well and I wasn’t even into making them until I began reading your blog. I love chocolate chip cookies but I like the dough better and I love yours because they’re egg-free.
I would love to sea more whole grain recipes in the next book!
AnneKatherine @ theyogurtgirl.blogspot.com
I am trying in vain to make refried beans like a mexican restaurant, I’d love it if you figured that one out. I bought the first book for everyone in my family for xmas, so I’m happy to know that xmas 2012 (or 2013?) is already taken care of too!
How about monkey bread? Or maybe lemon pound cake? My two favorite sweets
hi mama pea, so i was about to make this and realized my apple sauce is old! yuck! i have all other ingredients. what do you recommend in place of apple sauce? oil?
I can’t wait for book #2! I love the book and the blog, both have quickly become my favorite. I love the idea of noting which recipeas can be frozen, etc. I would love to see some recipeas for kids lunch that are easy and yummy.
Yay! I am so excited there will be a second book! As a fairly recent follower, and one who has shared this site with everyone I meet, who cares if they are vegan. This is pea-tastic! I too love the idea of having the recipea notes. I look forward to many more stories about why a dish was created along with new ways of cooking the foods I grew up eating before I went veg. Of course, what would a recipea book be without great pea stories to go along with it
I love all your recipes! I would be interested in more gluten free ideas…my husband was recently put on a gluten free diet. Keep the goodness coming
uuuuuuhhhhg. STOP! stop making delicious things that i read about and walk directly into my kitchen to make!! actually, no, please don’t stop. i love this blog. xo!
(the Hubs doesn’t even care that he has to go out for SoDelicious now–I showed him your drool-worthy pictures and he practically ran out the door to fetch it.)
I’m new to your site and recipes but have LOVED all of the recipes I’ve tried!! My husband even approves
In your next book, I’d love to see ideas about how to make traditional holiday food more vegan-friendly. We are new to cutting out animal products and I’m a little worried how to manage with the holidays approaching. Keep up your fabulous work!!!
I started reading your blog some months ago. I love how you write your stories, it always makes me smile. This recipe sounds delicious and since my mum cannot eat any dairy products it will be just perfect to make when I see her this weekend. Thanks for making my day!
I love your blog and recipes. Have been vegan almost two years and yours are the absolute best! Thank you for them and your awesome, posts.
I would love to see a section for introducing your baby to vegetarianism! Maybe recipes, things you substituted from the basic “rice cereal”, (yuck!) and toddler friendly bites!
Mama Pea!!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE your blog and I’m so excited that you’re coming out with a new book. I’ve been a vegetarian for the past three years and as of last Easter I’ve been vegan (I went vegan for Lent and then just stuck with it!!) Now I am a college student and every morning I wake up I read your blog before I head off to class. I’ve absolutely loved your recipes and I’ve recommended your blog to SO many of my friends who want to experiment with meat and dairy free cooking, and also gain an appreciation of the “vegan lifestyle”. I would love it if you added some “cheap meals” to the new cook book. Maybe a section on “the cheapest meals to make per serving”, or something like that. It’s hard being a vegan college student on a budget…I tend to splurge on your recipes…but it’s always so worth it. Sometimes the little ingredients really add up. Maybe a section on substitutions would also be nice. Like rather than using tahini (which I ended up buying a whole jar at the harris teeter close to campus), we could substitute peanut butter (because believe me, all college students are stocked up on the PB!!) Those would be little ways to save money while still making these AMAZING recipes. Well, even if I don’t win in the giveaway I hope you read my post and consider these suggestions….AND I can tell you with ABSOLUTELY no doubts that even if you didn’t add a single thing from ANY of these posts, your new book is about to “convert” a lot of my meat-eating roomies….they have noooo idea what’s comin’ for them
I’m kinda drooling right now.
I just love your first book, so will definitely be buying the second book. I even told my dietician about your book and she bought it too. I made those vanilla cupcakes with the “butter” cream frosting and they were so yummy! I loved the fact that the frosting wasn;t overly sweet because it seems that some companies make the frosting too sweet to compensate for the lack of something else. I am envisioning a coconut cupcake version of these. Yum! I would love a signed copy of your book and the dough balls, well they are awesome and make great gifts for people I might add. Thanks for being you!
I’m waiting to see “pea puppy”
I’d love to see more uses for oat bran and lots of raw balls, but most of all I’d like the recipe for those coconut cream doughnuts
jenna
Congrats on the new book contract….I can’t wait for the follow-up. I would love to see more vegan and gluten free recipeas. I have experimented with subbing out wheat flour, but my confidence is not great in gluten free baking. Also more tempeh….my family and I have fallen in love with tempeh (because of you)!!
Hello Mama Pea,
Just want to say that I love your book and your chocolate chip cookies are so awesome!!!
I’ve tired almost all your recipes and so far my growing boys only like the dessert section.
I am having a difficult time trying to raise my boys and feed them wholesome healthy vegan foods.
I mean they are boys and they want meat, especailly my hubby. But he tries his hardest to try new foods and I love him for that. Anyhoo just want to say that I am looking forward to getting my hands on your new cookbook. Those coconut donuts look insanley good.
So far it has been approx a yr since I went vegan. I am trying to feed and educate my boys about where foods come from and why it’s important to eat better and eat junk, but no luck.
Keep up the fantastic work, you are a genius in the kitchen I wish I was like that. To come up with recipeas like that. Anyhoo…..
Again looking forward to buying your latest and greates new book soon.
Thank you so much, Evie. I appreciate how hard it is to feed those boys of yours, but commend you for giving it your all. So glad to be a part of it!
Disclaimer: This is a decidedly unwitty comment, some of us were denied the gift of poetic prose
I have tried one recipe a day from your blog and book since June as our first transition into becoming vegan.
We are hooked, my IBS has disappeared – (I cannot tell you how incredibly amazing that statement is….), so I think I need the second book (and the dough balls)
The black bean burgers are close to Nirvana,
We eat oatmeal squares every day for breakfast,
The Black forest brownies are impressive for entertaining (with the raspberries and frosting of course),
The banana smoothies with chocolate chips and pretzels satiate my 13 year old daughters craving for ice cream, we use chocolate almond milk for an extra “fix”.
My husband begged me to make the marinated eggplant at least once a week, and his co workers are threatening to ostracize him if he doesn’t bring in more doughballs. One batch disappeared from my refrigerator in less than 30 minutes…..
I could go on but had better stop here, or this will be an incredibly long post!!!
Besides I need to go make those caramel apples now that I bought the candy thermometer
Julie,
Thanks so much for the wonderful feedback! I’m so happy you aren’t just enjoying the recipes, but that also they are managing your health problems…that’s amazing! Enjoy the rest of your wonderful weekend!
Beautiful! Great recipe – can’t wait to try it!!
This looks so yummy – the crispy edges especially! Congrats on book deal numero dos!
Love the step by step pics and look so good!
OMG, I love Lulu. And I think I may use her response the next time husband asks me about ducks in the house. (We have ducks here, not geese. Also, with his accent he says ‘dunk,’ and I laugh every time. But not too hard. Just in case.
And of course I forgot to add, I can’t wait to forward this recipe to my mom. I always hated cookie cakes, and we’d get them every year for my birthday because everyone loved them! Cookie cake!! What’s not to love? (Every year for my birthday, when my mom asked me what kind of cake I wanted, I’d respond pizza, so partially this was my own fault.) These were store-bought though, and I’m sure yours is amazing.
mmmm… i make these in our cast iron skillets (i have like 7 different sizes, all lovingly seasoned for decades by marshall’s grandpa–i know, best gift ever!) and i usually use my cookie recipe, but i see this recipe being used in the very near future. you never let me down.
Hi, when your recipe call for a T of something is it teaspoon or tablespoon?
It’s a Tablespoon!
Hey there Miss Sarah,
My blog post tonight mentions you, so wanted to give you a shout out!
http://wp.me/p1A4ZL-Z
I added a yummy Mixed Berry Cobbler. Enjoy!
Just made this, and taste tested it…. WONDERFUL!! My roommates can’t believe it is vegan!
I substituted the coconut oil for the same amount of earth balance baking sticks
Whoohoo!!! Glad you all enjoyed!
So, since I’ve moved in with my roomates, we’ve been baking machines. Well, not me, but this one girl and the twins. I need to contribute some
. So, I’m planning on making this! I’m guessing I could use canola oil instead of coconut oil or earth balance with the same 1/4 measurement? I’ve tried Chocolate Covered Katie’s chocolate chip pie and this looks delicious as well. One of my rooomates, the girl who is a baking queen is vegan, so i’m sure she’ll appreciate this 
I’m not sure…I’ve never tried it with canola oil, but it’s certainly worth a shot!
This looks delicious!! You should make a gluten free version! Ever since I have been gluten free, I drool over every cookie cake I see.
Hi Mama Pea! Is there supposed to be vanilla in this? I see it’s in the picture but not listed in the ingredients. This sucker is in my oven right now and I. CAN’T. WAIT.
I must not have put it in at the last minute (or else I forgot!). Feel free to add a teaspoon if you like!