Cake for Company

So I looked through cookbook after cookbook, recipe after recipe, and I just couldn't find anything I liked.  Well I liked plenty of what I saw but none seemed like the right cake for this post. So I had an existential crisis of sorts. Do I even like cake? Who am I if I'm not the cake lover I thought I was? Well that lasted for a whole...2 minutes when I realized that I'm more of a cookie, brownie, pastry type person. I find most cakes to be too rich, too decadent for me.  So I looked on my shelf for what I had and I looked through some different dessert recipes and I came up with a solution...A COOKIE CAKE! Who doesn't like a good cookie cake?

I had all of the ingredients for a Nutella cookie cake. 

Here is the recipe

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• 1/2 C butter, salted, at room temperature
• 1/2 C brown sugar, packed
• 1/2 C sugar
• 1 1/2 C all purpose flour
• 1 egg
• 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/2 C Nutella
• 1/8 tsp salt
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 3/4 C semi sweet chocolate chips

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees
• Line baking sheet with parchment paper
• In a bowl beat butter until soft, about one minute
• Add in sugars and beat for an additional 2-3 minutes or until soft and fluffy.
• Add in vanilla, egg and Nutella. Mix together well.
• Add in flour, baking soda, and salt. Mix until just incorporated.
• Add in chocolate chips.
• Bake for 8 minutes

And throw it in a pan! Or in my case a skillet. I'm a big banana bread fan (Donny and Luisa are even bigger fans) so maybe the next recipe will be banana bread.

Thanks for the link up, French!