Chocolate Volcano

One of my co-workers asked me, "Aleta, can you help me with something? My daughter told me that she needs to make a cookie volcano. I told her that we could try to make a volcano with rice crispes. She said, "NO, Mom, everyone is expecting me to bring a COOKIE volcano! I told them I would do this!" Do you have any ideas on how to make something like that?"



I don't know if my coworker realizes that I don't cook... she was asking the wrong chickee, about the most non-Martha Stewart person there is... Maybe it was the volcano aspect of it, but I thought about it for a few minutes and suggested that she stack cookies going up high and round and pour melted chocolate as the "lava."



The next day she came to the office and showed me a picture she took on her cell phone. She said, "I told my daughter about your idea and she loved it! We were excited to try it. After we made the volcano my husband said, "I want to eat some of it now!" Thanks so much for the idea, it was great!"



OK, so I may not cook, but it was fun to be creative. I asked her to send me the recipe that she used to keep the cookies stacked together. This is what she wrote:





78 Cookies (break and bake) to make the volcano.

Stack them like bricks



To get the cookies to stay in place, use chocolate butter cream icing and spread on the bottom of each cookie before stacking them



Melt 3 cups of semi sweet chocolate morsels and pour on top of stacked cookies



Put in fridge to make the chocolate hard or leave out if you want it soft