Homemade Pizookies AKA Pizza Cookies
Homemade Pizookies: This decadent pan cookie is a cross between cookies and pizza, and a divine treat for those chocolate chip cookie lovers in your life! You will swoon with your first bite of one of these giant Pizza Cookies!
This Copycat BJ’s Pizookie will become a new favorite dessert, especially when you’re looking for an easy recipe the whole family will love.
Why You Must Make
- It’s a HUGE chocolate chip cookie!!!
- A pizookie is slightly gooey in the middle and crispy around the edges.
- Topped with a scoop or more of vanilla ice cream and either caramel or fudge sauce, it’s a dessert worthy of any celebration.
Expert Tips
Pizookies, or pizza cookies, can be made in whatever skillet or skillets you have available. Mini skillets are perfect for individual servings, but you can also make a single, large pizza cookie in a larger skillet. Just adjust the baking time.
- Make the pizookie cookie dough just like you’d make a chocolate chip cookie dough, having the eggs and butter at room temperature for the best incorporation, and use a wooden spoon to blend the ingredients, not a mixer, so they’re nice and dense.
- Prep your skillet or skillets by greasing them with butter or nonstick cooking spray.
- Divide your dough between your pans, leaving a little space at the top for the pan cookie to rise. Smooth the tops with an offset spatula.
- PRO-Tip: To give your pizookie a professional look, you can press a few extra chocolate chips across the surface before baking. And if you forget, you can carefully add them to the pizookies as soon as they come out of the oven.
- Bake until the middle is almost set and you smell the amazing aroma of chocolate chip cookies. Underbaking slightly makes a moist and gooey center!
- Allow your pizza cookie to cool slightly before topping with a scoop of ice cream and toppings. You’re not limited to vanilla, so use the ice cream flavor and toppings that appeal to you.
- Serve warm, but with caution so nobody gets burned. Wrapping a towel around the handle might be warranted if you’re concerned about someone grabbing a hot handle.
- PRO-Tip: shake up the recipe by adding nuts, other flavors of chips, toffee bits, etc.
Baking Times:
The times will vary depending on the size of your skillets. As soon as the edges look crisp and the center looks almost set, they’re done. Of course, all ovens bake a little differently, but here are some guidelines:
- 3.5-inch Skillets – 15-20 minutes
- 4-inch Ramekin – 12-15 minutes
- 6-inch Skillet – 25 minutes
- 8-inch Skillet – 18-20 minutes
- Medium Skillet – 22-24 minutes
Frequently Asked Questions
f you’re anything like me, Homemade Pizookies have not been on your radar. But they will be after today. This legendary dessert is made of chocolate chip cookie dough baked in a personal-sized pizza pan. They first appeared at BJ’s Restaurant Brewhouse in 1978 where they were served hot out of the oven.
Pizookies are available in numerous flavors at their locations. Nice, eh? Who wouldn’t love a huge Pizza Cookie???
The term is a blend of the words pizza and cookie. Instead of making a pan pizza in your cast iron skillet, you are making a chocolate chip “pan” cookie.
The original pizookies were baked to share, probably in an 8-9-inch cake pan. But there is no mention of size on BJ’s website. You can make them in any sized skillet you have on hand, just remember to adjust the baking time.
These big Pizza Cookies from BJ’s are served warm, topped with 2-3 scoops of ice cream (usually vanilla, though other flavors are offered). Of course, 3-4 spoons are needed as well. My version includes caramel sauce or fudge sauce and vanilla ice cream.
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Pizookies AKA Pizza Cookie
When pizza meets cookies and chocolate chips are involved! A dessert to die for!
Ingredients
- 2 cups flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 ½ sticks softened butter
- 1 cup dark brown sugar
- ½ cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- 1 egg
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- 1 cup bittersweet chocolate chips (I used Ghirardelli chips)
- Vanilla ice cream, fudge and/or caramel sauce to serve
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375º. Grease two (or three) 6-inch cast-iron skillets. Set aside.
- Cream butter and sugars till well blended. Add vanilla, eggs, and egg yolk, and mix till light and creamy.
- Stir in flour, salt, and baking soda till just incorporated. Stir in chocolate chips. Chilling the dough is optional, but you may need to extend the baking time.
- Divide the dough between prepared pans. Smooth tops. If using only 2 skillets and you have a little too much dough, you can make a couple of cookies.
- Bake 25-30 minutes till edges are browned and centers are almost set. Cool slightly, then serve with a scoop of ice cream. Fudge or caramel sauce is optional.
Notes
You can vary the size of your skillets or pans, but you'll need to adjust the baking time.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield:
10Serving Size:
1 wedgeAmount Per Serving: Calories: 520Total Fat: 28gSaturated Fat: 17gTrans Fat: 1gUnsaturated Fat: 10gCholesterol: 74mgSodium: 311mgCarbohydrates: 64gFiber: 4gSugar: 38gProtein: 6g
72 Comments on “Homemade Pizookies AKA Pizza Cookies”
These pizookies are the most brilliant idea since the invention of the wheel. Love them. Will surprise my children this weekend with them. Thanks.
These are adorable! I printed the recipe for when my grandkids visit. They would really enjoy making them, and I’ve got the little skillets. I’m not one who will shove chocolate and ice cream and the kiddos, but if they can help cook, that’s more fun.
I’ve been known to snarff down a couple chocolate chip cookies for breakfast… Just sayin:@)
Dessert should be fun and this pizookie certainly is!! Fun to make and fun to eat!
My family and I love this recipe! It’s so tasty and delicious! I can’t wait to make this again!
This was my first pizookie and I’m obsessed! Such wonderful comfort food on a very rainy day here.
TGIF! My wife gonna make this for me and our son. Thanks ya!
I am giving this a try. On my son birthday party! 🙂 He a cookie lover.
I don’t know what my boyfriend is going to eat because I am eating the whole thing!! Love it Liz 🙂
Never too many CCC’s 😉 LOVE these decadent pizookies!
These are fantastic and definitely meant to be shared!
Lizzy,
I’m definitely a fan of skillet cookies. I don’t know if I like the name pizookies though.
Yours look fab,
Annamaria
I could use a pizookie right now! These look amazing!
I just gasped))) looking at this decedent, sinful photo.
FOOD PORN!
I LOVE! xxx
Liz, this pizookie is the key to my heart, especially with that big scoop of ice cream melting over top. I packed up my cast iron pan when I moved in December but for the life of me, I can’t find it! It’s maddening. I’d better do another sweep of my house so that I can find it and make your beautiful pizookie. I hope you and Bill had a wonderful Father’s Day together!
You are right I had never heard of these before but they are certainly on my radar now! Wow I am in love with these 😀 for so long now I have been wanting a skillet pan and now I have to have one to pig out on these!!!
Aha how clever….though I’ve got to go back and read whether it’s an existing term or your own invention, Lizzie?! 🙂 Skillet cookie?! How fantastic of a technique. I use my iron cast skillet 24/7 so it’s always handy!
I haven’t had the pleasure of enjoying a pizookie before but now I can’t wait.
I don’t know if this is man food in particular since I would like to dive into this with my bare hands and not come up for air till it’s all gone!
Now THAT is my kinda cookie!! This looks amazing, Liz!! I have made pan cookies before, but they’ve never looked quite like this!! I’ll have to give your recipe a try and hope mine look as beautiful!! Pinned!
Ahhhh. I was wondering what a Pizookie was and then I saw the photo. How fun! Anything baked in a skillet gets a 5 star rating from me!
I’m totally with your hubby- there is nothing better than a chocolate chip cookie! Dying to try this in my little mini-skillet from the conference 😉
Okay so THAT”S a pizooke! I want one!
I’ve never heard of a pizookie until now, but these look freaking amazing. Adding to my make & bake list!
When we lived in Tucson. There was a restaurant we loved going to that had a skillet cookies. It was always our special treat…….every week……it was that delicious! Your pizookies look oh my word YUM!!! Hugs, Terra
I love that these have all of the crispy edges like a pizza and get all ooey gooey on the inside… YUM!
Wow, I am new to this new fusion idea, love it. I want!
I love making these so easy and everyone loves them!! Your “cookies” are gorgeous!!!
This is seriously epic!
fun dessert!
Your pizookie lookes amazing! We enjoy this too in our home. Thanks for sharing.
OMG this looks AMAZING! Though I am scared I would eat the whole thing! Pinning!
I need some small cast iron skillets. These look amazing, especially with ice cream and caramel sauce.
I have such a weakness for pizookies, these look incredible!
I saw the pans at Costco and thought, “What would anyone do with those?” Now I wish I’d bought some. These look terrific!
Yes, I want one! With the ice cream…
ela h.
Definitely on my radar now! These look amazing Liz!
A pizza cookie loaded with CHOCOLATE!! It looks seriously rich and tempting, Liz.
oh my gawd, LIZ!!! I can’t wait to make this!!! I am seriously going to make these this weekend!!! love love love and I can even use the cool, little skillet we got from BlogHer Food!!! LOVE this!
The men in my life would love this. And I hope they would share with me. 🙂
What an amazing invention. A cookie pizza – hmmm.. I can just imagine cutting it into slices at a dinner party. The guests would certainly be impressed.
What’s a Pizookie?!!! Ummm pure bliss served warm w melts ice cream! I even have a small cast iron skillet, score!
Um, yes! I’ll take one!
Oh, man! Pizookies! Nothing like a warm cookie topped with ice cream, Liz. Now I need me some small iron skillets so I can replicate your delightful dessert!
Pizookie. Hilarious! I love it. I knew what it was but I had no idea it had a name. We bought a small iron skillet like that a few years ago but we’ve never used it. The whole thing about having to season it while standing next to the stove with a fire extinguisher scared me off!
Oh yeah! My hubby would love this pizookie. He loves chocolate chip cookies, and a deep dish chocolate cookie pizza…oh yeah. Thanks for sharing.
Hi Liz, Pizookie is a new one on me… sounds interesting : )
Your husband and I would travel well together. I am always picking up chocolate chip cookies. I just got my first cast iron pan last week. I think I will christian it with a pizookie!
Lizzy, I have added a new word into my vocabulary today! What will they think of next 🙂 ?
They sell these at a local brewery in town. But I gotta tell ya. Yours look a thousand times better then theirs. I must try this some day soon.
Liz, you get more and more amazing! My mouth starting watering the minute I laid eyes on the photos. Beautiful!
Dad would never get NEAR this in our household! Too many cookie-holics
I’ve never heard of pizookies but love the name and the merge of pizza and cookies! I really like how these are presented in the pans they’re cooked in and I agree with slightly undercooking the pizza-cookie to allow for a chewy centre. Must get myself some smaller skillet pans! xx
I’ve never heard of pizookies either – never. But I’m buying some small skillets, I can promise you, so I can make them. My grandkids would love these – so would I.
I love pizookies and my cast iron collection. A marriage made in heaven! Yum!
Holy heck! Pizookies are now my new obsession! Skillet cookie served warm with ice cream? Yeah, it doesn’t get much better than this! I noticed that there was no #skinnytip associated with this recipe! Jk!
My husband shares yours obsession with chocolate chip cookies. I am always making them and freezing the dough to have on hand!
Just another thing to show the awesomeness of cast iron, especially when it is used to bake these tasty pizookies (do I see a new hot trend on it’s way? yes I do!).
This looks SO good. There is nothing better than a big, gooey chocolate chip cookie. You totally used those cute little skillets we got at BlogHer Food didn’t ya? 😉 I’m going to try this recipe with mine!
I just want a spoon to dive right into this gooey cookie!
1… this looks amazing, but 2… I love cast iron and I absolutely can not wait to try this out. #Inspired Mmmmm
Have heard tell of the elusive pizookie…never saw it in person. Yours looks GREAT!
I am imagining this as a great Fourth of July dessert with homemade vanilla bean! I am so glad you have educated me on Pizookies!
I am all over these pizookies, Liz! Love the name plus the use of the little cast iron skillets! The drizzle of caramel on top is the first tease to dig in! Happy Father’s Day to your Bill too!
xo
Roz
Thank you for the intro to a Pizookie — we need these in our lives!
Liz, you certainly got me scratching my head with your Pizookies! Am I invited??
I thought I had enough chocolate chip cookie recipes, but apparently I don’t! I’m adding this one to my list to try.
Wow, your pizookie looks incredible Liz! With the ice cream on top, this looks like the perfect Father’s Day treat, love it!
Ahhhh! I had never heard of pizookies before, but I love the idea! Genius! 🙂
Yum, your pizookies look great Liz, I’ll bet Bill was thrilled! I see lots of great ideas in this week’s SS menu:@)
My crystal ball predicts that Bill is having a blissful Father’s Day! Nice to learn a new word and recipe for a delicious cookie =)
I had never heard of a pizookie before, but I want one!
My heart almost stopped at the sight of your lovely huge pizookies. I imagined the sweet chewy cookie with all this chocolate chips topped with cold ice cream and caramel sauce oh my, this is for sure a very sinful delight :). Love this from the bottom of my heart.