My Chocolate Chip Skookie is the perfect way to enjoy a warm, ooey, gooey chocolate chip cookie. The cookie base alone is great, but what really completes this rich dessert is the ice cream, homemade hot fudge, and any other toppings you want to load up on! My Hot Fudge Sauce is the bare minimum, but we almost always melt some peanut butter to load it up with too. Don’t forget about this Caramel Sauce, because it is also absolutely fabulous on a Skookie.
I imagine by now you have probably heard of a Skookie. They are pretty famous these days. Just in case you don’t understand their origins, let me break it down. Skillet+cookie=Skookie. This dessert is known by other names as well such as pizookie or just regular old skillet cookie. Around here it’s solely and affectionately called “Skookie”.
My Cowboy ranks this as one of his top two desserts. He says they are tied for first place with these Peanut Butter Brownies. They are definitely in the top five for me! Skookies and I have had a bit of a dangerous past. The first summer My Cowboy and I spent in wedded bliss, we ate Skookies. Lots and lots of Skookies.
Some good friends gave us two 6-inch Skookie pans as a wedding gift. So naturally, two people+two skookie pans=one skookie each. Right? Fifteen pounds later it didn’t feel quite so right to me anymore, so we put a stop to eating one Skookie each and started sharing instead. We have been sharing one ever since. Man have we matured in six years.
You wanna know one of my favorite things about Chocolate Chip Skookies? They are so easy. Just whip up some cookie dough and while it bakes, throw together some hot fudge. Not only do I love them for their simplicity, but they are also super versatile. Any flavor of cookie dough will do, but of course, I wanted to start off by sharing the original classic.
- 3/4 cup butter
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 egg
- 2-2 1/2 cups flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups milk chocolate chips
- Vanilla ice cream
- *hot fudge
- 1/2 cup peanut butter, melted (optional)
- caramel sauce (optional)
- Preheat oven at 325 degrees F. Cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy, about 2-3 minutes. Add vanilla and combine. Add egg and combine. In a separate bowl, combine 2 cups flour, baking soda, and salt. Gradually add to wet ingredients, mixing well between each addition. Add additional 1/4-1/2 cup flour, if needed. The dough should not stick to your hands. Mix in the chocolate chips.
- Press a generous amount of cookie dough into a 5-6 inch cast iron skillet, until skillet is mostly full. Remember the dough will rise a little bit as it bakes. There should be enough cookie dough to make about four to five Skookies. Bake 18-22 minutes or until the edges begin to brown, but the center underneath is still slightly doughy. We like them best a little underdone. Once baked, remove Skookie from the oven and let cool about ten minutes. That way it is warm, but doesn't dissolve the ice cream too quickly!
- Top with ice cream, hot fudge, melted peanut butter, and any other sauces you like! Place any leftover cookie dough in the refrigerator or roll into balls and place in the freezer to use for future Skookies or cookies.
- *Please make yourself homemade hot fudge! It is so quick, easy, and tastes so much better. A link to my hot fudge sauce is in the first paragraph of the post!