Why I Love This Skillet Chocolate Chip Cookie

Simply after I thought nothing might rival my greatest chocolate chip cookies, I baked an enormous model in a forged iron skillet! This skillet chocolate chip cookie is thick and gooey, bursting with melted chocolate, and scrumptious topped with ice cream. Right here’s why you must crack out your forged iron ASAP:

• One bowl. This chocolate chip skillet cookie has quite a bit in frequent with my chocolate chip cookie cake, which I bake in a springform pan. Combine up the dough in a single bowl, press it into your pan or skillet, and pop it into the oven to bake. Straightforward!
• A great deal of chocolate. This recipe has a whopping 1 ½ cups of chocolate chips blended into the cookie dough. All that chocolate will get completely melty and gooey because it bakes. Think about biting into the softest-baked chocolate chip cookie ever, and that’s what you get right here.
• Shareable. As soon as this skillet chocolate chip cookie is out of the oven, we all the time dig into it family-style with a spoon for everybody on the desk. After all, when you’re serving this at a celebration, it’s simply as scrumptious scooped into bowls.

Substances You’ll Want

This recipe principally takes a basic, chewy chocolate chip cookie and supersizes it for a skillet! The elements keep the identical. Under are some notes on what you’ll want. Scroll right down to the recipe card for the printable elements checklist.

• Butter – I all the time bake with salted butter, however unsalted works, too. Soften the butter earlier than you begin.
• Sugar – This skillet cookie makes use of granulated sugar AND brown sugar for additional moisture.
• Egg – You’ll want one entire egg, plus an additional egg yolk. The yolk makes the cookie wealthy and chewy.
• Dry Substances – All-purpose flour, baking soda, and salt. Verify the expiration date in your baking soda to verify it’s recent.
• Vanilla – As all the time, the very best taste comes from actual vanilla extract!
• Chocolate Chips – Any type you’d like. I exploit semisweet chocolate chips, however you should utilize darkish, milk, white chocolate chips, or a mix of various kinds of chocolate.

How you can Make a Chocolate Chip Skillet Cookie

All you must make this jumbo-sized chocolate chip cookie is an oven-proof skillet, one bowl, and a (ideally picket) spoon for mixing. That’s it! I exploit my forged iron skillet, which works greatest. Right here’s the best way to have a freshly baked large cookie on the desk in 25 minutes. You’ll discover the complete printable recipe within the recipe card after the submit.

Do I Have To Bake This In a Solid Iron Skillet?

Nope! For those who don’t personal a forged iron skillet, you possibly can bake this chocolate chip cookie dough in a 9×13” pan as a substitute. Scoop as ordinary when it’s recent out of the oven. Or, as soon as the cookie cools fully, slice it into cookie bars.

Recipe Suggestions and Variations

• Don’t overbake. The important thing to a gentle, ooey-gooey skillet chocolate chip cookie is leaving it underbaked! It ought to be set on the edges and just a little wobbly within the center, a bit like a cheesecake. Overbaking results in a dry, crumbly cookie. If it’s fully set within the middle when it comes out of the oven, there’s a superb likelihood it’s overcooked.
• Add a sprinkle of sea salt. I like the sweet-salty mixture in recipes like my salted chocolate cookies. It’s a good way to convey out the chocolate flavors on this skillet cookie, too. All it takes is a recent sprinkle of flaked sea salt (Maldon salt is my fave) because the cookie comes out of the oven.
• Strive completely different flavors. Make a skillet model of a peanut butter chocolate chip cookie with creamy peanut butter, or add cocoa powder for a chocolate chocolate chip cookie. Or, get impressed by any of my favourite chocolate chip cookie recipes.
• Extra add-ins. Along with chocolate chips, be happy to jazz up this skillet cookie with less difficult mix-ins. Good choices are crushed pretzels, chopped pecans, mini marshmallows, peanut butter chips, toffee bits, and candies like Reese’s and M&Ms.

Serving Strategies

This skillet chocolate chip cookie is scrumptious eaten proper out of the pan, or scooped out and served heat, topped with vanilla ice cream (even higher if it’s selfmade). For those who wait till the cookie cools, it’ll be agency sufficient to slice and function wedges.

You possibly can garnish this skillet cookie with extra toppings like whipped cream, caramel sauce, or frosting. This chocolate buttercream or my basic vanilla frosting are each good for piping onto an enormous chocolate chip cookie!

How you can Retailer

• On the counter. Any skillet cookie leftovers will be saved hermetic at room temperature for as much as 3 days. I wish to wrap the entire skillet with plastic wrap, however you possibly can switch the leftover cookie to a container when you want.
• Freeze. Freeze this chocolate chip cookie for as much as 2 months and thaw it within the fridge earlier than serving.