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    The Best Skillet Chocolate Chip Cookie

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    Chocolate Chip Skillet Cookie
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    This chocolate chip skillet cookie recipe is baking made simple! This ingenious recipe (mixed right in the pan on the stove!) takes your favorite cookies and makes one spectacular, sharable dessert. 


    An overhead view of a chocolate chip skillet cookie, with a slice missing.
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    • Creating This Skillet Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
    • Ingredients in the Skillet Cookie
    • How to Make a Skillet Cookie On The Stove
    • Tips for Making This Recipe
    • The Best Chocolate Chip Skillet Cookie

    Creating This Skillet Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

    If milk's best friend is a cookie, then ice cream's best friend is this skillet cookie. Made gooey and chewy right in one pan, it's a decadent, family-style dessert you can wrap your spoon around.

    I turned my Best Chocolate Chip Cookies into a one-pan wonder. You've heard of the Pizookie, and seen skillet cookies, but you've never tasted one this good. The perfect balance of butter, caramely brown sugar and chocolate.

    Before the skillet cookie craze, many years ago, I found out about this wonder-of-a-dessert at a sports restaurant, of all places. Right on the south corner of Times Square in NY was ESPN Zone.

    I'm telling you, there is no place I'd rather NOT be than a sports bar. But, they had skillet cookies! How could I stay away?

    An overhead view of butter being melted in a skillet. More ingredients needed to make the cast iron chocolate chip cookie rest nearby.

    The cookies were made in small cast iron skillets, piping hot when brought to the table and topped with vanilla ice cream, caramel sauce, hot fudge and whipped cream. Pretty dreamy.

    And digging in made all the noise and blasts of the games on screens fade away. Ah, a happy place.

    The dessert caused a craze with my friends. We wanted our own collections of small cast iron skillets and spent hours searching flea markets.

    Skillet chocolate chip cookies were our thing! And no more having to go to a sports bar!

    Ingredients in the Skillet Cookie

    Although this cookie recipe is has a unique preparation method, the ingredients are super simple.

    I used both granulated and light brown sugar in the cookie dough to add sweetness and flavor. Vanilla extract and salt finish the job.

    You'll need just over one stick of unsalted butter to make this recipe, but keep in mind that this recipe makes an entire 10-inch skillet's worth of cookie!

    Beyond that, the ingredients list uses what you'd expect: flour, egg, baking soda, and chocolate chunks.

    An overhead view of chocolate chip cookie dough being stirred together in a skillet.

    How to Make a Skillet Cookie On The Stove

    This skillet chocolate chip cookie is made in a family-size 10-inch pan. Oven-proof of course, so it can bake right in the pan it's mixed in.

    My technique calls for melting the butter in the skillet on the stove top. Unconventional for a chocolate chip cookie.

    Usually you want to beat the butter and sugar in a bowl to create those lovely microscopic air bubbles that help with structure and leavening. I use this method in my Black Sesame Chocolate Chip Cookies and Pecan Crispies.

    Melting the butter creates a denser cookie, but it's great for this one served hot, and scooped out of the pan with some ice cream.

    Chocolate chunk cookie dough in a skillet on the stove.

    Once you mix in the sugars and vanilla, I suggest letting the mixture cool for just a minute so the egg doesn't get cooked, before it gets cooked! In goes the egg, flour and other dry ingredients and finally those chocolate chunks.

    Chocolate chips work well too, but I love a good bite of chocolate with every bite of this dessert so I used bigger pieces.

    Make sure to stir the chocolate in quickly and spread the batter into the pan evenly. Mixing the cookie dough too much will allow the chocolate to melt and you'll end up with chocolate marbled cookies!

    • • •

    The best skillet chocolate chip cookie is served warm, slightly gooey and with a dollop of ice cream. Let the whole crowd dig in.

    • • •

    A slice being removed from a skillet cookie, seen from above.

    Can This Recipe Be Made Gluten-Free?

    Yes! Make it gluten free by swapping out the all-purpose flour with Cup 4 Cup all-purpose gluten-free flour. It's that simple!

    Can Other Mix-Ins Be Added?

    I don't see why not! I added ¾ cup chocolate chunks, so feel free to use up to that much of any mix-in you'd like.

    I think chopped nuts, dried fruit, M&M's, or chopped up candy bars would all work nicely. Just remember the batter is warm when you are stirring things in, so do it super quickly so they don't melt before they bake.

    What Type of Skillet Is Best for This Recipe?

    I used a non-stick, oven-proof skillet for this recipe. If you'd like to make a cast iron chocolate chip cookie, a cast iron skillet like this one works perfectly as well.

    A cast iron skillet

    Tips for Making This Recipe

    • Let the melted butter mixture cool slightly before adding the eggs. You don't want to scramble them by accident!
    • I made this skillet chocolate chip cookie recipe all in one pan. There's no need to dirty a separate mixing bowl for this recipe.
    • Leftovers will keep up to five days at room temperature, or you can freeze cookie slices for up to three months.
    The best skillet chocolate chip cookie on black and white

    The Best Chocolate Chip Skillet Cookie

    Tara Teaspoon
    This chocolate chip skillet cookie recipe is baking made simple! This ingenious recipe takes your favorite cookies and makes one spectacular, sharable dessert. 
    5 from 18 votes
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    Prep Time 20 mins
    Cook Time 22 mins
    Total Time 42 mins
    Course Baking, Dessert
    Cuisine American
    Servings 12 Servings
    Calories 286 kcal

    Ingredients
      

    • 10 tablespoon unsalted butter
    • ⅓ cup granulated sugar
    • ⅔ cup light brown sugar
    • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
    • 1 large egg
    • 1¾ cups all-purpose flour
    • ½ teaspoon baking soda
    • ¼ teaspoon salt
    • ¾ cup chocolate chunks

    Instructions
     

    • Heat oven to 350°F. In a 10-inch ovenproof skillet (such as a cast iron skillet), melt butter over medium-low heat and remove pan from stove. Stir in granulated sugar, brown sugar and vanilla and cool about 5 min.
    • Whisk egg into pan until blended. Add flour, baking soda and salt and stir until smooth. Quickly stir in chocolate chunks.
    • Press the dough into the skillet in an even layer. Bake until surface is golden but center is still soft, 18 to 22 minutes.

    Notes

    Serve this skillet cookie with Super Creamy Eggless Vanilla Ice Cream
    Tips: 
    • Let the melted butter mixture cool slightly before adding the eggs. You don't want to scramble them by accident!
    • I made this skillet chocolate chip cookie recipe all in one pan. There's no need to dirty a separate mixing bowl for this recipe.

    Nutrition

    Calories: 286kcalCarbohydrates: 37gProtein: 3gFat: 14gSaturated Fat: 8gCholesterol: 39mgSodium: 112mgPotassium: 101mgFiber: 1gSugar: 21gVitamin A: 320IUCalcium: 24mgIron: 1.7mg
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    Recipe Tara Teaspoon. Photography William Brinson. Props Penelope Bouklas. Originally published LHJ 03/14.

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    Reader Interactions

    Comments

    1. Mary Bench says

      July 16, 2018 at 6:03 pm

      What a great idea! When you need a cookie, this will do the trick in a hurry!

      Reply
    2. Brittany Smart says

      July 19, 2018 at 2:06 pm

      Skillet cookies are the best!! Especially with some yummy vanilla ice cream

      Reply
    3. Brit says

      May 11, 2020 at 11:36 pm

      This is what I request for my birthday dessert every year now! Thanks for the recipe!

      Reply
    4. Basma says

      December 23, 2021 at 3:33 am

      Such an easy and perfect recipe.
      Although the am not a baker, it turned out so good😋😋

      Reply
    5. Ari says

      February 11, 2022 at 10:59 pm

      Can I use oat flour for this recipe?

      Reply
      • Tara Teaspoon says

        February 14, 2022 at 10:14 am

        Hi Ari, Unfortunately I think oat flour wouldn’t work, but I haven’t tried it. If you need to make it gluten free I would try Cup4Cup flour first. Tara

        Reply
    6. Cameo says

      February 22, 2022 at 2:35 pm

      This looks insanely good. What kind of chocolate chunks do you use?

      Reply
      • Tara Teaspoon says

        February 22, 2022 at 4:54 pm

        Hi Cameo,
        They are Nestle brand.

        T a r a

        Reply

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