How to Make a Cookie Bowl

The smell of home baked cookies is always welcome and this awesome cookie bowl is always a hit at birthday parties. Eat the treats and when you run out, you can eat the bowl.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• 1 package sugar cookie dough
• Vegetable shortening
• Waxed paper
• Round cookie cutter or drinking glass
• Parchment paper
• Aluminum foil
• Oven safe mixing bowl (about 11-inches wide)

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Roll out the cookie dough between 2 sheets of waxed paper to a 1-inch thickness. Make sure the dough is cold.
2. Cut round shapes out of the dough with the cookie cutter or glass.
3. Turn the bowl upside down. Cover it with aluminum foil and grease the foil.
4. Place one of the cookie dough circles on the bottom of the overturned bowl. Drape the other cookies over the rest of the bowl, overlapping the cookies and gently pressing the edges together. Only cover the bowl with dough about halfway, as the dough will rise in the oven.
5. Reroll the remaining dough and cut small shapes out of it. Place them on a separate cookie sheet.
6. Bake the small shapes for six minutes and the bowl for about 15 minutes until the edges turn slightly brown. Transfer to a cooling rack.
7. Use frosting to attach the shapes to the outside of the bowl. Carefully lift the cookie bowl from the foil-lined bowl and fill with treats.

Tips & Warnings

• Experiment with other shapes like a loaf pan.