This rich and gooey deep dish skillet cookie is baked in a cast iron skillet and served warm topped vanilla ice cream. Fill this cookie with chocolate chips, nuts, chopped candy bars, whatever you like (s’mores option below)! Two recipe sizes to choose from.
This skillet cookie is everything we love about a chocolate chip cookie: crisp edges, soft centers, melty chocolate, and a buttery brown-sugar dough. But instead of making individual cookies, we are pressing the dough into a skillet and baking it as one big cookie. You won’t be able to resist it!
You might also like: Snickerdoodle Skillet Cookie or Chocolate Skillet Cookie.
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Recipe overview
Cookie dough: This is a fairly basic cokie dough. Cream butter with sugars, add egg and vanilla. Beat in flour, baking soda, and salt.
Mix-ins: Once the dough is prepared you can stir in whatever “mix-ins” you like. Most often we use chocolate chips for a classic chocolate chip cookie flavor, but you can use any “chips” or nuts or even chopped candy bars (more on this below).
Bake: Prepare the dough, stir in the mix-ins, then press the dough into a greased cast iron skillet. Bake the cookie until it is golden brown and the edges are set but the center is still slightly underdone.
Mix-in options
Choose one mix-in or a variety. Use what you have and what sounds best to you! Some ideas:
- Chocolate chips
- Peanut butter chips
- Butterscotch chips
- White chocolate chips
- Toffee bits
- Chopped chocolate bar
- Nuts
- Chopped candy bars (peanut butter cups, Snickers, Kit-Kat, Rolos, etc.). This is a great way to use up extra candy from holidays.
- S’mores! See below for more information on this version
