An Air Fryer Pizookie is a thick deep dish cookie served with ice cream and delicious toppings to make a spectacular dessert. The best part is that the Air Fryer makes them so quick and easy.
IF you want more delicious air fryer treats, try my Pop Tarts in the Air Fryer and my Air fry toaster strudel.
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Why this Air Fryer Pizookie Recipe is a Keeper
These deep dish chocolate chip cookies smothered in ice cream and your favorite toppings are a true family favorite.
- Quick: I love how fast you can make one of these giant cookies in the air fryer.
- Easy Ingredients: All the ingredients for these gooey chocolate chip cookies can be found in your pantry.
- Family Friendly: So decadent and delicious everyone will love them.
- Adaptable: Adjust to make with any type of cookie mix and toppings. You can even make without the skillet.
What is a Pizookie?
A pizookie is a giant cookie, typically a chocolate chips, that’s baked in a skillet. There are several things that make these different from typical cookies. Such as:
- Size: It’s significantly larger than a regular cookie, resembling a personal-sized pizza.
- Texture: This dessert should have a crispy exterior with a warm, gooey, and often underbaked center.
- Finish: Serve it warm straight from the skillet or air fryer, and top with a scoop (or two!) of ice cream, syrup and other goodies.
Ingredient Notes for this Dessert Cookie Recipe
- Flour: You will need all your typical cookie ingredients, all-purpose flour, granulated sugar, baking soda, etc.
- Semi-sweet chocolate chips: What chocolate cookie would be complete without the perfect chip. You can use dark chocolate, white chocolate or any flavor you like for this chewy cookie.
See the recipe card below for a complete list of the ingredients with measurements.
Prep Ahead Suggestions for Homemade Pizookie Dessert
The best part about these cookies is you can prepare your cookie dough in advance and have it ready to go when you want a delicious treat.
- Make the chocolate chip cookie dough ahead of time and keep in the fridge or wrap in plastic wrap and freeze for later.
Special Equipment Needed to Make a Pizookie
While these cookies are often made in cast iron skillet, You can use a variety of vessels to make these cookie treats.
- Air Fryer: Your air fryer allows you to make these cookies quick and easy. Without having to heat up your oven.
- Spring Pan: In place of a skillet I like to use a spring form pan so I can remove it from the pan and place it on a serving dish for an excellent presentation.
- Cookie scoop: A large cookie scoop allows you to control the size and insure that all the desserts come out the same.
Pro Tip for this Popular Recipe
Use Parchment Paper: Line your air fryer basket with parchment paper. This prevents the chocolate chip recipe sticking and makes cleanup a breeze.
How to Make Homemade Pizookie Recipe in the Air Fryer
These are the basic steps for making a Copycat BJ’s Pizookie. Refer to the full recipe card below for detailed instructions for this deep-dish cookie. The chocolate chip skillet cookie is usually baked in a cast iron skillet until slightly gooey and served with vanilla ice cream. It is always served warm.
1. Make You Cookie Dough
First, using a mixer, cream together together butter, brown sugar and sugar until creamy and then add vanilla and eggs and beat. Lastly, slowly add flour, baking soda and salt. Second, mix in the chocolate chips.
2. Place in Mold
Next, using a spring mold pan, add parchment paper and then add four ice cream scoops of cookie batter into pan. Then press the batter evenly to fill the pan and cook on 370 for 10 minutes. Bake time will vary by air fryer.
3. Ice Cream on Top
Finally, top with several scoops of vanilla ice cream and your favorite toppings for the perfect pizookie.
How to Store, Reheat this Copycat Recipe for Pizookies
The best way to eat these decadent desserts is right away when they are gooey and hot. However, you can store them and reheat them for later. You’re ready to make a decadent dessert any time.
- Store at Room Temperature: Store the leftover pizookie cookie, without the toppings in an airtight container for up to 5 days.
- Reheating: Rewarm the easy dessert in your air fryer, microwave or oven. Then add vanilla ice cream on top.
- Leftover Pizookie: You can use the leftover cookie baked treat by adding the cookie topped with another scoop of ice cream and sauce.
Variations and Substitutions for this Air Fryer Pizookie Cookie
There are so many ways that you can revamp this giant chocolate chip cookie to make it your own.
- Favorite Cookie Flavors: Make your favorite, snickerdoodle, sugar cookie, peanut butter etc in place of the homemade chocolate chip cookie.
- Toppings for the Skillet Cookie: Syrups, caramel, different chips or sprinkles will enhance your dessert. And of course, top with ice cream, homemade whipped cream.
Delicious Dessert Recipe FAQs
Of course, you can use a box mix or premade chocolate chips cookie dough from the refrigerator section. Or use your favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe.
I use a spring form pan in place of a skillet. But you can use a deep dish pie plate, cake pan or aluminum foil in place of a cast-iron skillet.
The cookie should be golden brown on the outside and still soft and tender gooey center for the ideal pizookie. Then top with ice cream, hot fudge, caramel sauce, shaved chocolate bar etc.
Expert Tips for Making Pizookie Cookie Skillets Recipe
This recipe is a copy cat from the one found in bj’s restaurant but you can make it your own. This recipe isn’t one that is hard and it so easy to make it your way.
- Bar: Have all your toppings in a bar so that people can build their own.
- Short cut tip: Feel free to use pre made cookie dough.
- Variation tip: Try a variety of different flavors, like sugar, peanut butter or snickerdoodle.
- Size: The Air Fryer sizes truly vary, consequently, your cooking time and the size of your finished product can vary, adjust accordingly.
- Additional toppings: Crumbled oreo cookies, candy, sprinkles or cereal pieces are great on these pizza cookies.
Air Fryer Pizookie
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Ingredients
- 3 cups All-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon Baking soda
- 1 teaspoon Salt
- 1 cup Butter, softened
- ½ cup Sugar
- 1 ¼ cups Brown sugar , packed
- 2 teaspoons Vanilla
- 2 Eggs
- 2 cups Semi-sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Using a mixer, mix together butter, brown sugar and sugar until creamy. 2 minutes
- Add vanilla and eggs and beat for 1 minute. Slowly add flour, baking soda and salt.
- Stir in chocolate chips.
- Using a spring mold pan, add parchment paper to bottom of pan and spray the inside with oil. Add four ice cream scoops of cookie batter into pan.
- Compress the cookie batter to evenly fill the pan and cook on 370 for 10 minutes.
- Let sit and cool for 15 minutes before removing pazookie.
- Remove and top with favorite ice cream and sauce
Christina’s Notes
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- Bar: Have all your toppings in a bar so that people can build their own.
- Short cut tip: Feel free to use pre made cookie dough.
- Variation tip: Try a variety of different flavors, like sugar, peanut butter or snickerdoodle.
- Size: The Air Fryer sizes truly vary, consequently, your cooking time and the size of your finished product can vary, adjust accordingly.
- Additional toppings: Crumbled oreo cookies, candy, sprinkles or cereal pieces are great on these pizza cookies.
- Scale the recipe: Simply adjust the serving size in the recipe card and the ingredients will update automatically.
- Make your own All Purpose Seasoning: When a recipe calls for All Purpose Seasoning, you can use my homemade All Purpose Seasoning recipe or substitute salt and pepper to taste.
- Meat doneness: I always use a meat thermometer to test for doneness when cooking meat.
- Use unsalted butter: I use unsalted butter so I can control the salt level in the recipe.
- Preheat the oven: Unless otherwise noted, always preheat your oven before baking.
For more helpful information about this recipe, such as variations, substitutions and other pro-tips, check out the blog post.
Thank you so much for sharing this amazing recipe! Will surely have this again! It’s really easy to make and it tasted so delicious! Highly recommended!
Amazing, my kids will go nuts over this!
Air fryer pizookie looks delicious . Great treat.