A Second First Birthday

So we had a good group of family over for a potluck BBQ to celebrate Daniel's birthday. It was wonderful to have everyone together...

I really didn't want to make a cake again, for several reasons:
- In my head I was calling this a "Family BBQ" because I didn't want to go overboard for a first birthday with two parties, and Daniel already had a party.
- Planning a birthday cake is stressful.
- Kids don't really like cake. I realized this the other weekend because none of the kids ate their cupcakes. Sure they licked the icing and took a couple of bites, but really, they would have preferred a cookie or ice cream.
- I already don't have enough plates for everyone to eat supper, much less eat dessert too. And also forks.

So with all that in mind, and a comment from Jeff the previous week, I set about to plan a special dessert...

Yum.

That's right. Ice cream sandwiches! The other week at the grocery story Jeff said something to the effect of  "I really like ice cream sandwiches. I bet you could make them." And I said something like "Probably." A friend of mine makes AWESOME cookies called "Award Winning Chocolate Chip Cookies" so I got her recipe and proceeded to make a batch of giant cookies. The recipe says it makes 72 and I made about half that.  I was short on chocolate chips, but figured with the ice cream it wouldn't matter. These were so good! I couldn't believe that there was even one left over that I got to eat the next day! The boys just got cookies without the ice cream, but boy were they happy...

That cookie is as big as his face!
But oh so delicious!

I really don't know how many cookies Jacob ate for dessert.
But for supper all he had was chips.