This Pizookie Skillet Cookie Recipe is one big ooey gooey cookie with chocolate chips baked in a cast iron skillet and topped with vanilla ice cream!
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Why This Recipe Works
Pizza Cookie Perfection: This pizza cookie, aka pizookie, is a giant skillet cookie that is the perfect dessert for a family or a couple of friends to share! I made a peanut butter oatmeal chocolate chip cookie here. So it has all the best of every single kind of cookie in one!
Easy to Make: If you have ever enjoyed a pizookie cookie at BJ’s restaurant, you know just how delicious they can be. But you don’t have to go out to enjoy one these cookies! Make it easily at home instead. This cookie dough is super easy to make, and can be made ahead of time! Or, double the recipe and keep half of it frozen to have a pizookie skillet cookie whenever the craving hits!
Ingredients
- Flour: All-purpose flour works great here! To make a gluten-free pizookie, you can use a gluten-free replacement flour.
- Baking Soda: Baking soda helps the cookie to have a bit of rise in the oven!
- Salt: To balance the flavors.
- Old Fashioned Oats: Old-fashioned oats add a chewy, delicious texture.
- Butter: Use room temperature butter! This is essential to being able to cream the butter and sugars together.
- Brown Sugar & Granulated Sugar: A combination of brown sugar and granulated sugar adds the right amount of sweetness with a caramely flavor!
- Creamy Peanut Butter: This is a peanut butter chocolate chip skillet cookie that uses creamy peanut butter!
- Egg: Make sure to use a room temperature egg for best results.
- Vanilla: For added flavor!
- Chocolate Chips: I used semi-sweet chocolate chips here. You can use dark chocolate or milk chocolate instead!
- Ice Cream: The best way to serve a pizookie is warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top!
Here’s How to Make It
Step by Step Instructions
- Preheat & Prep: Preheat the oven to 350 F and spray a 9 inch cast iron skillet with cooking spray. (not pictured)
- Measure Dry Ingredients and Cream Butter & Sugars: In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking soda, salt, and oats and stir to combine. In a larger bowl, cream together butter and sugars until light and fluffy. You can use a mixer or a wooden spoon. (photos 1-2)
- Make Dough: Add peanut butter, egg, and vanilla and mix well. (photos 3-4)
- Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients and mix until just combined. (Photos 5-6)
- Stir in oats, then chocolate chips. (photos 7-10)
- Place Dough in Skillet: Gently press the cookie dough into the prepared skillet. Leave about 1/2 inch around the outside of the dough to allow for spreading, and make sure your cookie dough is not taller than the skillet, since it will rise. (photos 10-11)
- Bake: Bake 25-35 minutes until an inserted toothpick comes out clean. Serve warm, with vanilla ice cream! (photo 12)
Expert Tips
- Switch up the toppings! You can top it off with creamy vanilla ice cream or opt for a dessert sauce like caramel sauce or chocolate sauce! You can sprinkle it with extra chocolate chips, nuts or even m&ms for added texture and sweetness.
- Don’t over mix the dough! As with any cookie dough, it is important not to over mix the pizookie dough once the flour is added to the mix. Simply combine the ingredients until the mixture is just combined!
- If you don’t have a cast iron skillet, you can make this easy pizookie recipes in a cake or pie pan instead!
- To make the cookie dough ahead of time, prep the cookie dough and place in a bowl covered in plastic wrap. You can store the dough in the fridge for up to 3 days before you bake it!
Frequently Asked Questions
Definitely! If you have mini cast iron pans, you can divide the dough between four 6 inch cast iron skillets and have four individual pizookie skillet cookies instead. Keep an eye on the cookies since cooking time will decrease.
Store any leftovers in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 1 day, or store in the fridge for up to 4 days! You can reheat the cookie in the oven until warm and serve with more ice cream!
More Cookie Recipes to Try
- Red Velvet Skillet Cookie
- Salted Caramel Chocolate Thumbprint Cookie
- Peanut Butter Cookies
- Sugar Cookies
- White Chocolate Chip Skillet Brownie
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Pizookie (Skillet Cookie)
Ingredients
- 1 ¼ cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup old fashioned oats
- ½ cup butter - softened
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- ½ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- vanilla ice cream
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 and spray a 9 inch cast iron skillet with cooking spray.
- In a medium bowl combine flour, baking soda, salt, and oats and stir to combine. In a larger bowl cream together butter and sugars until light and fluffy.
- Add peanut butter, egg, and vanilla and mix well. Stir in chocolate chips. Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients and mix until just combined.
- Gently press cookie dough into prepared skillet. (Leave about 1/2 inch around the outside of the dough to allow for spreading, and make sure your cookie dough is not taller than the skillet, it will rise.)
- Bake 25-35 minutes until an inserted toothpick comes out clean. Serve warm, with vanilla ice cream.
Notes
- Switch up the toppings! You can top it off with creamy vanilla ice cream or opt for a dessert sauce like caramel sauce or chocolate sauce! You can sprinkle it with extra chocolate chips, nuts or even m&ms for added texture and sweetness.
- Don’t over mix the dough! As with any cookie dough, it is important not to over mix the pizookie dough once the flour is added to the mix. Simply combine the ingredients until the mixture is just combined!
- If you don’t have a cast iron skillet, you can make this easy pizookie recipes in a cake or pie pan instead!
- To make the cookie dough ahead of time, prep the cookie dough and place in a bowl covered in plastic wrap. You can store the dough in the fridge for up to 3 days before you bake it!
Yum! This looks AMAZING! Pinning! xo
Thanks Jamielyn! Big fan of yours, I’m honored!! 🙂 🙂
wow, what a dream cookies, love it
This looks amazing! Definitely pinning. As soon as I hear “the best” whatever recipe it may be, I’m instantly needing to know what it is and what it tastes like.
so, what if you do not have a iron skillet and want to try it, what are the other options to get the same results everyone loves ?
Hi! I definitely recommend using a cast iron skillet for this recipe. However, you could try baking these as individual drop cookies and bake for about 9-11 minutes on a cookie sheet. 🙂
Does it need to be a cast iron skillet??
If you don’t have a cast iron skillet, you can make this in a cake or pie pan instead!