Ingredients:

one boxed cookie mix of your choice

2 tubs store-bought white/vanilla buttercream frosting

yellow, orange and black gel food coloring

royal icing for facial details (or use some of the buttercream frosting)

decorating bags/tips (optional) or sandwich baggie

small, off-set spatula (optional) or knife

Directions:

1. Mix cookie dough and plop it onto the middle of the round pan (i.e. pizza stone).

2. Use your lightly floured hands to pat the dough into a big circle.

3. Bake according to directions on box (Note: one giant cookie may take twice as long as directions state). Allow cookie to cool (keep on pan).

4. Tint some of the frosting orange, and some yellow. Keep a small amount white for the middle circle.

5. Put some of the white, untainted frosting in the middle of the cookie (use a decorating bag or Ziplock with no tip) and spread with a small, offset spatula (or knife), into a circle.

6. Spread the next portion of the cookie round with the orange icing.

7. Spread the yellow frosting around the outer edge of the cookie.

8. Decorate the face: use Ziplock bags with corner snipped or a decorating bag and tip (#5 for the whites of the eyes), #2 tip for the black pupil and smile, and a #1 tip for the small white dot to finish the eye detail (another option would be to purchase candy eyes).

Bon Appetit!