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.Â
Pizzookies
Ingredients
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!
Why a Pizzookie?
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.
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
Fill with cookie doughYou’ll want to fill up your ramekin, or skillet, a little more than half way with cookie dough.
Top your Pizzookie with Ice Cream!
This 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
Questions & Reviews
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!!
my husband would eat this every night if i made them. thanks for the recipe! so yummy!
while this requires more effort than cracking open a tube of cookie dough and digging in…it looks to be worth it.
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.
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+!
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!
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!
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!!
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!
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.
Yes Bethany, that will work great, just use muffin liners so they'll come out easy. You can also use oven proof mugs.
Yes Bethany, that will work great, just use muffin liners so they'll come out easy. You can also use oven proof mugs.
I am so going to try these for a special dessert tonight, but I don't have any ramkins, you think it will be ok in large muffin tins?? Maybe with cupcake papers?
I made these today at work! Yes, at work. My boss was not thinking when he bought a mini-OVEN for the office. Anyway, total awesomeness. Thank you!!!!
I am adding this to my own 'online-cookbook'. I keep my favorite recipes on there and then I'll bind them together into my own personal cookbook. I will credit your site, of course. You girls are already on there a few times. 😉 I hope that's okay!
Thanks again!
I want to race to World Market right now to buy ramekins to make this. YUM!
I want to race to World Market right now to buy ramekins to make this. YUM!
Just made this! OMG so delish. I do wish the recipe included how many you could make from one tube, I didn't have enough so we had to eat after the kids went to bed. 🙂
Sadia- it depends on the size of your ramekins and how full you make them. You can get 6 good sized ones or 4 big ones from a standard packaging of cookie dough. In the photo you'll notice the cookie comes all the way out of the top of the ramekin- that package made 4. You could even get 8 if you only filled them 1/2 way or less.
Sorry to be annoying…any chance you could link the size ramekins you used? or the skillets? I am noooot a good baker and need, like, really detailed details to get it right. 😉
Not annoying! But it literally doesn’t matter- the size of the container doesn’t matter, you just want to fill whatever it is about half way. You can’t mess this up, promise haha. Any standard ramekin will do- if you need to purchase a size, I would probably go for 6-8oz, those are probably the most all-purpose.
So my absolutely favorite restaurant in AZ, Oregano's, had this on their menu and I LOVE IT! I have since moved to KY and I CRAVE, LUST, OBSESS this dessert. I have tried a hundred time to get it right and this is the closest recipie by far! THANK YOU for saving my life!
Just discovered your blog recently and have been hooked ever since!
This looks so delicious, cant wait to try it out!!!!!!! How many servings can you make from one Pillsbury cookie dough package??
Thanks!!!
Not only do I love your recipes, but I love the fun way you approach food and the sense of humor you both have when posting! The calcium bit seriously made me laugh out loud. 🙂
My friend just made these for us last Sunday, and we all LOVED them! I am printing out the recipe right now, so I can make them next.
HA this post is A) hilarious (i will be the one hovering in the corner eating the whole muffin tin hoping no one catches on) B) delicious and C) totally true, who DOESN'T like eating pre-made cookie dough
Using a ramekin is a fabulous idea! At my house we LOVE this dessert. My roommates and I started making this years ago when we all lived together…we called it "Diabetes in a Bowl." Now my husband and family love it when we have this dessert. I usually try and keep some frozen home-made chocolate chip cookie dough on hand for when the craving hits.
Sheri–How many you get definitely depends on how big you make the pizzookies. 🙂 My family of 4 never uses the whole roll, but my friend's family of 6 does. I would say 6-8 is a pretty safe guess.
This looks soooooo good! Can you tell me how many a roll of cookie dough make? I need to busy some remekins first so would like to know how many I should get 🙂
Oh, my. I've been hearing about "Pizzookies" all over different blogs, and wondered what it was. It looks like the perfect desert! Thanks!
I just made some of the NY Times cookie dough last night. I will have to try this soon with your homemade fudge syrup and caramel sauce. YUM!
Pre-packaged dough contains transfat–not okay in moderation. Perhaps wind down with a quick batch of buttery homemade cookie dough? 🙂
You’re right about that particular storebought dough flavor. There’s something irreplaceable about it!
These are so addicting! Well and when you still have the rest of the roll of cookie dough to use…what are you supposed to do? I love the gooeyness of the cookie!