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Skillet Cookie – ooey, gooey chocolate chip cookie baked in a skillet, and topped with ice cream, hot fudge, whipped cream and any other toppings your heart desires!
One of my all time favorite desserts is a skillet cookie. Sometimes it is called pizookie or a cookie sundae. But it doesn’t really matter. You take a fresh warm baked cookie, and top it with ice cream and all the toppings for pure dessert heaven.
The one thing about a skillet cookie is it is best served immediately straight from the oven. You want the cookie to be nice and warm to melt the ice cream and have a gooey and delicious bite each time.
What You’ll Need
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- Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough – there is a recipe below for homemade cookie dough, but you can use the store bought kind or whatever your favorite recipe is.
- Ice Cream – I like to use vanilla ice cream for this, but you really can use whatever your favorite flavor is.
- Hot Fudge – Homemade Hot Fudge is the ultimate topping for this.
- Caramel
- M&M’s
- Sprinkles
- Whipped Cream – Homemade Whipped Cream makes for a delicious topping.
How To Make Skillet Cookie
- Make cookie dough. If you are using a homemade cookie dough, mix together or you can use the tube of premade cookie dough from the store.
- Bake. Press the cookie dough into a skillet. If you are using a full batch of homemade dough, it will make approximately 2 9-inch skillets. Or you can make smaller individual skillets. Bake for about 15-20 minutes until the edges are golden brown and the center is set and appears mostly dry. You want to make sure to underbake it slightly.
- Remove. Take it from the oven and let it cool for about 5 minutes, just so it isn’t super hot.
- Toppings. Go crazy with your ice cream and favorite toppings and serve immediately.
Recipe Tips & Tricks
- Underbake. You want to make sure to underbake the cookie. The skillet will remain very hot and continue to bake the cookie after you take it out of the oven.
- Cookie Dough. You really can use whatever type of cookie dough you like. I like chocolate chip cookie dough for this, and prefer homemade. We have been making this since I was just out of college, and store bought tubes of cookie dough were always used. It works perfectly well!
- Skillet. If you don’t have a cast iron skillet you can use a pie plate or cake pan. A cast iron skillet gives it that crispy edge and great texture, but I have used a cake pan many times as well.
- Creative. Your toppings are when you can get really creative. Ice cream, whatever candy or cookies you like (Oreos, peanut butter cups, M&M’s etc). Make it your own.
Storage
Skillet cookie is something that you want to serve right after it comes out of the oven. It is best to only bake as much as you need at the time. Extra cookie dough can be baked into cookies, or you can freeze to make another skillet cookie later.
More Must Make Dessert Recipes
- Gooey Brownie Pie
- Skillet Brownie for Two
- Chocolate Chip Cookie Pie
- Cookies & Cream Cupcakes
- Peanut Butter Cake
Skillet Cookie
Video
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, ,softened
- 3/4 cup light brown sugar
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream together butter and both sugars until light and fluffy. Mix in vanilla and eggs until combined. Add flour, salt, and baking soda, mix until combined. Fold in chocolate chips.
- Put dough in a skillet (makes enough for 2 9-inch skillets), press down into an even layer.
- Bake for 15-18 minutes until the edges are set, but the middle is still slightly under baked.
- Remove and top with ice cream and desired toppings.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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You can’t go wrong with a skillet cookie! I want!
Love skillet cookies! Perfect to share 🙂
This is the dessert of my dreams! And my 11-year-old just saw an image and agrees.
That’s awesome getting together with other food bloggers! I love these cookie skillets and actually have some small pans of my own to try this in 🙂
What a fun get-together! I love hanging out with other bloggers, and I love that y’all got the chance to hang out AND cook together. And this Skillet Cookie? Incredible! I cannot wait to make this at home!
Oh my goshhhhhhh this looks so perfect! There is nothing better than warm cookies topped with ice cream. Yum!
Sounds like you all had a fun little get-together! I mean, how can you not when there is skillet cookies involved, right? 😉
The video shoes corn starch was added, but corn starch is not listed in the ingredients list. What are the pros and cons to in regards to corn starch? Thanks!
I haven’t tried this recipe yet, but it looks yummy!
The cornstarch is optional – it helps cookies stay softer longer.