This chocolate chip cookie pizza is like immediate 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 option to take pleasure in an enormous fresh-baked cookie.
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 big cookie in pizza kind! Half pizza, half cookie, all pizookie (!!), all magnificent.
Why You’ll Love Chocolate Chip Cookie Pizza
- Smooth 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 brighten with frosting
- Customizable—add sprinkles, white chocolate chips, or colourful candy-coated candies 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!
This Is the Quickest Approach to Cookies
Do-it-yourself chocolate chip cookie pizza is fast and straightforward, so it’s a terrific dessert to make when pressed for time. Just one hour stands between you and selfmade cookies (in pizza kind)!
You’ll save numerous time through the use of my gentle chocolate chip cookies dough to make right this 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 sit back 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 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. Ensure that to start out with correct room-temperature butter. In case you’re simply beginning your baking journey, I like to recommend watching this video tutorial on how you can 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 finest—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.
No have to refrigerate the dough earlier than baking! This can be a nice recipe for baking with youngsters in the event that they’re in want of a enjoyable mission, 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 have the ability 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 artistic management right here—identical to a chocolate chip cookie cake, however even larger. 🙂 Listed here are just a few methods I really 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
- non-obligatory for serving: ice cream, vanilla buttercream, sprinkles
- Preheat oven to 350°F (177°C). Evenly 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 pace till creamy and easy, about 3 minutes. (Right here’s a useful tutorial in the event you want steering on how you can cream butter and sugar.) Add the egg and vanilla extract and beat on excessive till mixed, about 1 minute. Scrape down the perimeters and backside of the bowl as wanted.
- Add the dry substances and beat on low till mixed. With the mixer operating on low pace, add the chocolate chips. Dough can 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; hold it thick and centered.
- Bake for 20-24 minutes or till puffed and frivolously browned on prime. 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 just a few chocolate chips into the highest. That is non-obligatory and just for appears.
- Cowl leftovers and retailer at room temperature for 2-3 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 aluminum foil or plastic wrap and chill for as much as 3 days within the fridge or freezer for as much as 3 months within the freezer. If freezing, thaw 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 just a few chocolate chips into the highest whereas it’s nonetheless heat. That is actually only for appears. And additional 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 an alternative. 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 happy so as to add sprinkles! Beat 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 good for sprinkling on prime earlier than or after baking although.