This chocolate chip cookie pizza is like immediate satisfaction: fast to organize, generously full of chocolate chips, and all the time a celebration hit. With no chilling or particular person shaping and barely any cooling, it’s the simplest strategy to take pleasure in an enormous, fresh-baked cookie.
I initially printed this recipe in 2016 and have since added new photographs and extra success ideas.
Chocolate chip cookie pizza isn’t something new or groundbreaking, but it surely definitely 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
- Tender 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)
- Straightforward 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 sweets 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 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: “Unbelievable recipe! I’ll 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 sit back dough, so with the ability to pop this massive cookie within the oven straight away was a particular plus. In addition they cherished with the ability to mildew the cookie into the pizza pan. I imply, what child doesn’t wish to make a cookie pizza! ★★★★★“
This Is the Quickest Solution to Cookies
Home made chocolate chip cookie pizza is fast and straightforward, so it’s an important dessert to make when pressed for time. Just one hour stands between you and home made cookies (in pizza type)!
You’ll save numerous time through the use of my gentle chocolate chip cookies dough to make right now’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 sit back 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 because the 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. Be sure to begin with correct room-temperature butter. In case you’re simply beginning your baking journey, I like to recommend watching this video tutorial on the right way 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 perimeters of the pan.
Once more—no have to refrigerate the dough earlier than baking! This can be a nice recipe for baking with children in the event that they’re in want of a enjoyable venture, particularly one which delivers immediate 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 might have whole artistic 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! Embellish 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). Calmly 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 clean, about 3 minutes. (Right here’s a useful tutorial in case you want steerage on the right way 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 shall 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 don’t want it to succeed in the perimeters of the pan; maintain it thick and centered.
- Bake for 20–24 minutes or till puffed and frivolously 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 remains to be heat, I wish to press a number of chocolate chips into the highest. That is non-obligatory and just for seems to be.
- 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 subsequent 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 to be. And additional chocolate!
- Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies Dough: For a denser, chewier chocolate chip cookie pizza you may attempt my chewy chocolate chip cookies dough as a substitute. 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 at the least half-hour earlier than baking.
- Birthday Cookie Cake: Be happy 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 coloration. They’re excellent for sprinkling on prime earlier than or after baking, although.