This chocolate chip cookie pizza is like prompt satisfaction: fast to arrange, generously filled with chocolate chips, and all the time a celebration hit. With no chilling or particular person shaping and barely any cooling, it’s the simplest method to get pleasure from an enormous, fresh-baked cookie.
I initially revealed this recipe in 2016 and have since added new pictures and extra success suggestions.
Chocolate chip cookie pizza isn’t something new or groundbreaking, however it definitely deserves a spot on our dessert tables. Why? It feeds a crowd, makes use of my tender chocolate chip cookies dough as the bottom, and is one big cookie in pizza type! Half pizza, half cookie, all pizookie (!!), all magnificent.
Why You’ll Love Chocolate Chip Cookie Pizza
- Delicate 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 (similar to shortbread cookies)
- Simple to serve and feeds a crowd
- Nice for birthday celebrations
- Enjoyable to brighten with frosting
- Customizable—add sprinkles, white chocolate chips, or colourful candy-coated candies for additional 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 tender (cake-like) or too onerous (crispy/crumby) over the previous a number of years. This has a brand new residence 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 immediately was a particular plus. In addition they cherished having the ability to mould the cookie into the pizza pan. I imply, what child doesn’t wish to make a cookie pizza! ★★★★★“
This Is the Quickest Option to Cookies
Do-it-yourself chocolate chip cookie pizza is fast and simple, so it’s an amazing dessert to make when pressed for time. Just one hour stands between you and do-it-yourself cookies (in pizza type)!
You’ll save numerous time by utilizing my tender chocolate chip cookies dough to make at this time’s cookie pizza as a substitute 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 big 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 components:
The steps are tremendous easy, together with creaming butter and sugars collectively. You’ll use each white granulated and brown sugar on this recipe. Make sure that to start out with correct room-temperature butter. If you happen to’re simply beginning your baking journey, I like to recommend watching this video tutorial on tips on 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, conserving it centered and away from the perimeters of the pan.
Once more—no must refrigerate the dough earlier than baking! It is a nice recipe for baking with children in the event that they’re in want of a enjoyable venture, particularly one which delivers prompt gratification. (Have you ever ever tried to bake cookies with a toddler after which needed to inform them they must wait 3 hours earlier than they’d be capable of eat one? I see you.)
Cookie Pizza Ornament Concepts
As soon as the cookie pizza has cooled, have enjoyable adorning it! You’ve complete artistic management right here—similar to a chocolate chip cookie cake, however even larger. 🙂 Listed below are a couple of methods I like to brighten 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 mild or darkish brown sugar
- 1/4 cup (50g) granulated sugar
- 1 giant egg, at room temperature
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 1 and 1/4 cup (225g) semi-sweet chocolate chips
- elective for serving: ice cream, vanilla buttercream, sprinkles
- Preheat oven to 350°F (177°C). Calmly grease your 12-inch pizza pan.
- 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 velocity till creamy and clean, about 3 minutes. (Right here’s a useful tutorial in the event you want steerage on tips on how to cream butter and sugar.) Add the egg and vanilla extract and beat on excessive velocity till mixed, about 1 minute. Scrape down the edges and backside of the bowl as wanted.
- Add the dry components and beat on low velocity till mixed. With the mixer working on low, add the chocolate chips. Dough might be thick, tender, and sticky.
- Switch the cookie dough to the pizza pan and flatten out along with your fingers till it’s round 3/4 inch thick. You don’t want it to achieve the perimeters of the pan; maintain it thick and centered.
- Bake for 20–24 minutes or till puffed and flippantly browned on high. Don’t over-bake.
- Enable 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 couple of chocolate chips into the highest. That is elective and just for appears to be like.
- 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 couple of chocolate chips into the highest whereas it’s nonetheless heat. That is actually only for appears to be like. And further chocolate!
- Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies Dough: For a denser, chewier chocolate chip cookie pizza you’ll be able to strive my chewy chocolate chip cookies dough as a substitute. Identical bake time, similar 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 at the least 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 good for sprinkling on high earlier than or after baking, although.
