A deliciously gooey chocolate chip cookie cake gets updated with butterscotch for a decadent treat!
CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE CAKE IDEA
Give me one cookie, and I’m a happy gal. But give me a giant chocolate chip cookie cake, and I’m in heaven. I got the idea for this chocolate chip cookie cake from mom and pop bakeries and even Mrs. Fields that make them. I remember seeing giant chocolate chip cookies with messages like Happy Birthday and Congratulations in the bakery windows as a kid. The cookie cakes were normally in the shape of a heart. I decided to make my own version!
YOU WON’T BE ABLE TO IMAGINE ANYTHING BETTER
I’ve got an imagination exercise for ya. Close your eyes for a second with me. It’s fine, don’t peak (well maybe just close one eye and read this because I’m sure you can’t read with your both eyes closed). Imagine a gooey, chewy chocolate chip cookie with bits of butterscotch baked until just soft in a cast iron skillet. Nice and warm right out of the oven, imagine topping it with big scoops of vanilla ice cream that melt along the surface. This is pure decadence, and you deserve it all!
HOW TO MAKE A CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE CAKE
This chocolate chip cookie cake isn’t for those who want to half step in the cookie department. This is about having one of those desserts that completely satisfies every cookie craving and addiction inside of you with one single bite. To create the recipe, I started with my favorite chewy chocolate chip cookie recipe. I piled the dough into my cast iron skillet and baked it until just barely cooked. I prefer my cookie underdone but if you want a crispier cookie, you can certainly bake it longer.
I didn’t let it cool long, added ice cream and dug right in. In fact, this baby didn’t last long at all.
MORE GREAT GRANDBABY CAKES’ COOKIE RECIPES
If you think this chocolate chip cookie cake with butterscotch chips looks amazing, you might want to try some of my other cookie recipes including these crispy chocolate chip cookies, key lime cookies, red velvet cookies and salted caramel chocolate chip cookies!
A delicious gooey chocolate chip cookie cake gets updated with butterscotch for a decadent treat!
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons cornstarch
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup unsalted butter softened to room temperature
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 1/2 cups packed brown sugar
- 1 large egg at room temperature
- 2 large egg yolks at room temperature
- 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup chocolate chips
- 1 cup butterscotch chips
- In a medium sized bowl, whisk together flour, cornstarch, salt, baking powder and baking soda and put aside.
- In the bowl of your mixer, add butter and both granulated and brown sugars and cream together for 3-4 minutes on high until light and fluffy.
- Next add in eggs one at a time beating until incorporated. Then add in pure vanilla extract and beat until smooth.
- Turn down your mixer to low and add in flour mixture in three intervals beating after each addition until well-combined. Lastly, stir in chocolate chips and butterscotch chips.
- Place dough in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour. Two hours is even better.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Spray a cast iron or deep dish skillet with non-stick baking spray.
- Pat all of cookie dough into the pan then bake for 20-35 minutes depending on how well done you want the cookie to be.
- Cookie may seem underdone but let it cool until warm to begin setting then serve.
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Dear Jocelyn,
loved your recipe and im going to try it!
i have two questions:
1. Can i make it a ´chocolate cookie´?
2. and what should i change in the recipe for that.
3. For the butterscotch chips, do you recommend i make it or buy butterscotch candies?
Thank you very much!
xo
Maria (From Paraguay!)
Hi Maria, adding too much cocoa powder will change the dynamics of the dry ingredients in the recipe. If you add a tablespoon of cocoa powder, I would maybe get rid of a tablespoon of flour. Let me know how your experiment turns out.
THIS LOOKS TO DELISH!!!
I need it, like, now!
One question though…I do not own a skillet and they’re kind of expensive where I live. Is there anything else I could make it in?
I have a glass dish that is around the size of a skillet…could that work? Or any other suggestions?
Thanks 🙂
Yes you can try this in a glass dish for sure.
I would love to make this, it looks so yummy, but I do not have a skillet. Could I make it in a deep cake pan?
What is the circumference of the skillet, so I can use it for a comparison.
Yes you can make it in a deep pan. About 10 inches round should do it!
Awesome sauce!!!!! That sounds very indulgent and yummy for my tummy….
Congrats on the new cookbook and much success!! I will be purchasing a copy soon.
Thank you so much Yvonne! I really appreciate your support!
Just made these in individual ramekins for my daughter’s birthday. A gaggle of 13 year old girls topped them with ice cream and caramel sauce and declared them a little bit of heaven. Thanks for the great recipe!
Hooray I am so glad they enjoyed it! Isn’t it a decadent dream? Thanks so much for sharing with me!
There is something about butterscotch that turns a cookie into comfort food! It warms things up right down to your toes. 🙂 This skillet cookie looks great !
What size of a skillet would you recommend?
Hi Eva, I would recommend a 9 or 10 inch skillet. The smaller it is, the thicker the cookie and vice versa (thinner cookie for larger pan).
Thank you! Love your cookbook! I’ll be making this cookies again and again!
I LOVE the addition of butterscotch in this cookie skillet! I was just thinking the other day how I don’t have enough butterscotch in my life…
Girl, you and this skillet full of yumminess! The pictures are mouthwatering and then you sent me on a virtual trip into decadence. You reeled me in hook, line and sinker!
Oh, yes pleaaase. This looks like skillet cookie heaven!! I’m loving this, and it looks like the perfect excuse to pull out my cast iron skillet 🙂 pinned!
This looks soooooo gooood!! I deserve this! I think I will be indulging this weekend and hiding from my kids. Lol!
That sounds like a plan!
I LOVE butterscotch and this skillet cookie looks sensational!!
8 servings? Forget that, I’m eating this baby all by myself 😉
I’m DYING for this right now. Send it to me please????
This is going to be my wonderful snack for Oscar nominated movie nights. Totally in love with this chocolate chip cookie.
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You give new meaning to eating just 1 cookie. LOL!
The fact that there is butterscotch all over this makes me jump for joy!!
Yesss. There might be nothing better in this world than a skillet cookie. With ice cream. I am loving this recipe! And totally craving it now!
*drrooool*
I am sooooooooooo hungry looking at that skookie! so gooey and like my dreams come to life!
Cookie skillets have become one of my favorite desserts at restaurants. Now I can make them at home!
This skillet cookie would be gone in seconds around here! Love this, Jocelyn!
Now this is some serious yum!
This. I want this. It is perfect in every way. When we (inevitably) meet, I vote this is a part of the equation. 🙂
Now that is totally doable girlfriend!
I definitely drooled all over my iphone when I saw this on Instagram last night. Later I pulled it up for my husband to see and more drooling commenced 🙂
oh my gawd, J. . this is seriously perfection!!! I LOVE THIS!!!!!
Oh, NO. Visualizing that cookie just made my breakfast extremely disappointing. Don’t make me do that again! 🙂
This looks, you know, like the best thing ever.
Cookies baked in skillet are always better!
I know you say this is 8 servings, but I think I could polish that whole cookie off all by myself. SOMUCHYUM.
Oh yeah same here Stephanie!
This cookie makes me want to get in the kitchen and make a big ole skillet cookie despite all the baking I’ve already done! I have yet to make a skillet cookie and you better believe it’s going to happen soon! 🙂
Hahaha girl get that going right away!
Looks absolutely delicious! I need to use butterscotch chips more often, I tend to forget about them (gasp!). 🙂
Yes they are so freaking good!
Now that’s a fine looking giant cookie. I’m ashamed to say I could probably eat the whole thing!
Same here. All I feel is shame now.
I’ll take my cookie underbaked, please! I ‘ll also take the entire skillet all to myself. This is where I get in trouble. With cookies, I have portion control… with a skillet cookie my portion control is the whole cookie!! OMGeee this is making me melt! The ice cream is a must! Love this Jocelyn! (ps: love the cornstarch in there!)
Yeah same here. One skillet says to me “MINE”.
Ohmygawd! I need this cookie…with lots of chocolates. Heavenly!
YES!
Oh my gosh- my mouth salivated just reading about this!
-Kelsey
Thanks so much Kelsey. That’s a good thing!
I approve of this foodstuff. Oh, do I ever.
Hahahaha good deal!
Oh. My. This looks heavenly. I love big skillets of love like this! And I happen to have a new skillet that needs to be broken in…..
Well this is the best way to break it in girlfriend.
I LOVE a giant cookie, never ever will turn one down! I mean, regular cookies are great and all, but give this loaded one, STAT!
Yep I think we are from the same planet Abby!