Pizzookies

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April 24, 2024
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Pizzookies are little individual servings filled with warm gooey chocolate cookie and ice cream.  We love topping our Pizzookie with chocolate and/or caramel sauce for a knock-your-socks-off dessert that’s fancy enough for company and easy enough for a casual family treat. They can be made with 100% store-bought short cuts, or you can make any part of them with homemade recipes, we’ll provide links for all the options but they are just as delicious either way!  Scroll past recipe card for step-by-step photos and some more tips. 

baked Pizzookie

Pizzookies

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Individual servings of warm chocolate chip cookie with ice cream on top.
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Ingredients

  • Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough homemade or store bought
  • Vanilla Ice cream homemade or store bought
  • Chocolate sauce homemade or store bought
  • Caramel Sauce homemade or store bought

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350. Fill desired amount of ramekins (or any sort of individual sized oven safe serving vessels) a little bit more than half way with cookie dough.
  • Bake for about 12-14 minutes or until golden around the edges but still soft in the middle.
  • Remove from oven and allow to cool about 5 minutes. Top with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and drizzle with chocolate, or caramel or both!
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Why a Pizzookie?

This dessert is for the end of the week and you’re dead tired and so very grateful for the weekend, something you can delight in while you watch all the shows you DVRed during the week.  I’ve made them with homemade cookie dough, I’ve made them with the cookie dough from Papa Murphy’s, and I’ve made them with the good ol‘ refrigerator cookie dough from the grocery store. Quite honestly? I like the dough I don’t have to make the best. These are so easy and so AMAZING that any extra effort, either in preparation or cleanup, seems to take away from their deliciousness. That being said, they’re pretty specatular taken up a knotch with homemade caramel, ice cream and fudge, so make them easy, or make them complicated, either way they’re fantastic!  We love making these for company as well because it’s easy to prep all the ramekins with dough and just keep them in the fridge.  Pop them in the oven as you’re finishing dinner and they’ll be warm and ready to go!

How to Make a Pizzookie

You can absolutely use a tub of store-bought cookie dough or make your own.  If you want to only make 2-4 pizzookies, I recommend making this easy dough from our giant cookie since it makes a smaller amount.

Chocolate Chip cookie dough

When you order a Pizzookie at a restaurant, it often comes in a mini skillet.  There are a lot of options, styles and sizes of those available on Amazon.  We often bust out the mini cast iron skillet when making one for a special occasion, or if we’re going to share, but most times we love using ramekins because they’re so easy to serve in and you don’t end up with a hot handle you have to watch out for.  There is however something fun about eating out of a skillet.  So, either way!

Fill with cookie dough

You’ll want to fill up your ramekin, or skillet, a little more than half way with cookie dough.

cookie dough in ramekins
Bake them in the oven till the cookie dough is puffed and set on the edges but remember you want the inside super soft so don’t over-bake!
baked pizzookie

Top your Pizzookie with Ice Cream!

Let them cool for about 5 minutes (you want them warm, but not screaming hot) and then you’ll be ready to scoop ice cream over the top and drizzle chocolate or caramel (or both!) over the top.
baked cookie in ramekin
The BEST part about a pizzookie is that bite of warm cookie with the cold ice cream melting into it.
baked Pizzookie
baked pizzookie recipeThis is an absolute family favorite (often requested at birthdays) in our home and I bet it will be in yours, too!  If you make these, share a photo on Instagram and tag @Kate_OurBestBites and @Sara_OurBestBites so we can see!

Here are some recipes you might like to use with your Pizzookies!

Homemade Cookie Dough
Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream
Homemade Hot Fudge Sauce
Homemade Caramel

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Sara Wells co-founded Our Best Bites in 2008. She is the author of three Bestselling Cook Books, Best Bites: 150 Family Favorite Recipes, Savoring the Seasons with Our Best Bites, and 400 Calories or Less from Our Best Bites. Sara’s work has been featured in many local and national news outlets and publications such as Parenting Magazine, Better Homes & Gardens, Fine Cooking, The Rachel Ray Show and the New York Times.

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Questions & Reviews

  1. What size ramekins do you use? They look the perfect size 🙂 I need to buy some and was curious! ?Can't wait to try these!!

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  2. my husband would eat this every night if i made them. thanks for the recipe! so yummy!

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  3. while this requires more effort than cracking open a tube of cookie dough and digging in…it looks to be worth it.

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  4. I was making them in little six inch metal pans like they serve them in at my daughter's fav restaurant. They will look much cuter in the ramekins if I can get the kids to switch over. I've used the purchased cookie dough for years with these. They are always a hit.

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  5. I had my new in-laws over for dinner tonight and made this for dessert. Every one loved these! This is the 5th thing I've made from here and everything is delicious! My husband ranked this A+!

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  6. I tried this recipe for my family last week for the first time. Let me just say we all LOVED it! Can't wait to try it again – tonight! Yipee! And, I even made your hot fudge sauce…ohhhhh talk about heaven in a pot! So yummy. Should've known when I saw there was sweetened condensed milk! Thanks again for your delicious recipes!

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  7. I loved the pizzookies tonight! My wife made them and I asked her if I could post that on this blog – thank you! This was a big hit for our family of 8!

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  8. Wow!! I just recently came across your blog, and so far I love it! The ideas are awesome! They all look sooo yummy, good!
    I had to laugh a little bit when I read through the pizzookies, (only because yes sometimes store bought is the way to go) and in this case.. QUICK AND EASY!! It does look very yummy!
    Don't get me wrong, I love to bake, and cook and I do agree with you, sometimes a little less preparation or clean-up just makes life a little easier.
    Also I giggled a little bit because you said it is ok to have one, or more than one 😉 as long as the syrup has CALCIUM!! 🙂
    I will definitely try pizzookies!! Thanks for the awesome recipes! 🙂 And look forward to many more!! Thanks!!

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  9. The verdict is in, perfectly yummy!! I made them in a large muffin tin with papers, the paper cups were taller than the pan so I filled them about as high as the tin, the kids still say it wasn't enough LOL! We used chocolate ice cream for some of us and vanilla too. I need ramekins now, but good that I have another option. Hubby wants me to try this with brownies…. Thanks so much!

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  10. Your awesome answering so fast! I was just about to put them in, thanks! I don't have any good mugs either, but I'll let you know how they work out.

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