This chocolate chip cookie pizza is like prompt satisfaction: fast to organize, generously filled with chocolate chips, and at all times a celebration hit. With no chilling or particular person shaping and barely any cooling, it’s the best strategy to get pleasure from a giant, fresh-baked cookie.
I initially revealed this recipe in 2016Â and have since added new photographs and extra success ideas.
Chocolate chip cookie pizza isn’t something new or groundbreaking, nevertheless it actually deserves a spot on our dessert tables. Why? It feeds a crowd, makes use of my gentle chocolate chip cookies dough as the bottom, and is one large cookie in pizza type! Half pizza, half cookie, all pizookie (!!), all magnificent.
Why You’ll Love Chocolate Chip Cookie Pizza
- Mushy and chewy with crisp, buttery edges and oodles of melty chocolate chips
- Easy to make, an ideal newbie baking recipe
- Fast—no cookie dough chilling (identical to shortbread cookies)
- Simple to serve and feeds a crowd
- Nice for birthday celebrations
- Enjoyable to embellish with frosting
- Customizable—add sprinkles, white chocolate chips, or colourful candy-coated goodies for further cookie pizza pizzazz!
This recipe additionally joins 30+ others in my assortment of Fast Dessert Recipes—prepared in 1 hour or much less!
One reader, Stephanie, commented: “This was fabulous! We’ve been working the gauntlet to discover a recipe that wasn’t too gentle (cake-like) or too laborious (crispy/crumby) over the previous a number of years. This has a brand new dwelling in our ‘keeper’ recipes. Thanks! ★★★★★“
One reader, Nicole, commented: “Incredible recipe! I could by no means bake regular-sized cookies once more. 😉 I’m normally baking with my kiddos who don’t perceive the idea of getting to relax dough, so having the ability to pop this large cookie within the oven instantly was a particular plus. Additionally they beloved having the ability to mildew the cookie into the pizza pan. I imply, what child doesn’t need to make a cookie pizza! ★★★★★“
This Is the Quickest Solution to Cookies
Selfmade chocolate chip cookie pizza is fast and simple, so it’s a fantastic dessert to make when pressed for time. Just one hour stands between you and home made cookies (in pizza type)!
You’ll save a number of time through the use of my gentle chocolate chip cookies dough to make at the moment’s cookie pizza as an alternative of particular person cookies. There’s no dough chilling or rolling the cookie dough into particular person balls. (You don’t want to relax the dough for my chocolate chip cookie bars, chocolate chip cookie cake, or these large chocolate chip cookies, both.)
We’re merely making the cookie dough and urgent it onto a pan. And for the reason that cookie pizza is a skinny layer, it takes a brief period of time to bake and a brief period of time to chill.
Seize these substances:
The steps are tremendous easy, together with creaming butter and sugars collectively. You’ll use each white granulated and brown sugar on this recipe. Ensure to start out with correct room-temperature butter. In the event you’re simply beginning your baking journey, I like to recommend watching this video tutorial on find out how to cream butter and sugar.
The dough is thick and a bit sticky:
Press the dough onto a greased 12-inch pizza pan. A 12-inch pan or bigger works greatest—keep away from something smaller. Form the dough right into a flat disc about ¾ inch thick, preserving it centered and away from the sides of the pan.
Once more—no have to refrigerate the dough earlier than baking! It is a nice recipe for baking with youngsters in the event that they’re in want of a enjoyable undertaking, particularly one which delivers prompt gratification. (Have you ever ever tried to bake cookies with a baby after which needed to inform them they must wait 3 hours earlier than they’d be capable to eat one? I see you.)
Cookie Pizza Ornament Concepts
As soon as the cookie pizza has cooled, have enjoyable adorning it! You’ve gotten whole inventive management right here—identical to a chocolate chip cookie cake, however even greater. 🙂 Listed below are a number of methods I really like to embellish cookie pizzas:
Extra No-Chill Cookie Recipes
Description
Simpler than rolling particular person cookies and no cookie dough chilling. Chocolate chip cookie pizza is ideal for sharing! Adorn with buttercream, sprinkles, whipped cream, and/or serve with ice cream.
- 2 cups (250g) all-purpose flour (spooned & leveled)
- 2 teaspoons cornstarch (aka cornflour)
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup (12 Tbsp; 170g) unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
- 3/4 cup (150g) packed gentle or darkish brown sugar
- 1/4 cup (50g) granulated sugar
- 1 massive egg, at room temperature
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 1 and 1/4 cup (225g) semi-sweet chocolate chips
- non-obligatory for serving: ice cream, vanilla buttercream, sprinkles
- Preheat oven to 350°F (177°C). Evenly grease your 12-inch or bigger pizza pan. (No smaller than 12 inches.)
- Whisk the flour, cornstarch, baking soda, and salt collectively in a medium bowl. Put aside.
- Utilizing a hand mixer or a stand mixer fitted with paddle attachment, beat the softened butter and each sugars collectively on medium pace till creamy and easy, about 3 minutes. (Right here’s a useful tutorial if you happen to want steering on find out how to cream butter and sugar.) Add the egg and vanilla extract and beat on excessive pace till mixed, about 1 minute. Scrape down the perimeters and backside of the bowl as wanted.
- Add the dry substances and beat on low pace till mixed. With the mixer working on low, add the chocolate chips. Dough will probably be thick, gentle, and sticky.
- Switch the cookie dough to the pizza pan and flatten out together with your fingers till it’s round 3/4 inch thick. You do not need it to achieve the sides of the pan; hold it thick and centered.
- Bake for 20–24 minutes or till puffed and calmly browned on prime. Don’t over-bake.
- Permit the cookie pizza to chill on the pan set on a cooling rack earlier than garnishing/slicing. Whereas the cookie pizza continues to be heat, I wish to press a number of chocolate chips into the highest. That is non-obligatory and just for seems.
- Cowl leftovers and retailer at room temperature for two–3 days or within the fridge for as much as 5 days.
Notes
- Make Forward & Freezing Directions: Put together cookie dough by means of step 4. Cowl dough tightly with plastic wrap and chill for as much as 3 days within the fridge, or wrap the dough in a layer of plastic wrap adopted by a layer of aluminum foil and freeze for as much as 3 months. If freezing, thaw in a single day within the fridge earlier than persevering with with the following step.
- Particular Instruments (affiliate hyperlinks): 12-inch Pizza Pan | Glass Mixing Bowl | Whisk | Electrical Mixer (Handheld or Stand) | Silicone Spatula | Cooling Rack
- Only for Enjoyable: Proper after I take the cookie pizza out of the oven, I press a number of chocolate chips into the highest whereas it’s nonetheless heat. That is actually only for seems. And further chocolate!
- Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies Dough: For a denser, chewier chocolate chip cookie pizza you possibly can strive my chewy chocolate chip cookies dough as an alternative. Identical bake time, identical oven temperature. Be warned that the cookie pizza spreads fairly a bit, so I like to recommend refrigerating the formed cookie dough on the pizza pan for a minimum of half-hour earlier than baking.
- Birthday Cookie Cake: Be at liberty so as to add sprinkles! Beat in 1/2 cup (80g) of sprinkles with the chocolate chips. Don’t use nonpareils (the little balls) as a result of they bleed their colour. They’re excellent for sprinkling on prime earlier than or after baking, although.
