A Pizookie Recipe featuring the absolute-best cookie dough, loaded with Reese’s candies, chocolate chips, and M&M’s, baked in a deep-dish skillet!
Obsessed with cookies? Try these next: Snickerdoodles, Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies, or Rocky Road Cookies.
author’s note
Made to Share… But You Won’t Want To!
When my husband and I were in college, we found a little dessert café that quickly became our go-to spot. They had tons of homemade treats, but we almost always ordered the same thing: pizookies. If you’ve never had one, a pizookie is basically a pizza-shaped, deep-dish cookie baked in a skillet and served warm with a big scoop of ice cream on top. The name is owned by BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse, but versions like this show up at dessert spots everywhere.
We each ordered our own the first time and quickly realized one could easily serve four.
After graduation, we moved a few hundred miles away, but I always knew I’d try making my own. And now? These homemade pizookies are a total favorite in my house. They’re sweet, indulgent, and loaded with all the good stuff: chocolate, M&M’s, and Reese’s.
Ingredients In This Pizookie Recipe
- Butter: Use butter that’s soft but not melted for the best texture. I like using unsalted so I can control the salt.
- Sugars (White and Brown): Sweeten the cookie. Cream the butter and sugars until fluffy to help the pizookie rise.
- Egg: Helps bind the ingredients. Use an egg at room temperature for better mixing.
- Vanilla Extract: High-quality vanilla makes a big difference in taste.
- Flour: Spoon and level the flour when measuring to avoid a heavy, dense cookie.
- Baking Soda and Baking Powder: Make the cookie rise and become light. Check that they’re fresh for the best rise.
- Salt: A little salt can balance the sweetness.
- Chocolates and Candies: Distribute candy pieces evenly so every bite is delicious. You can experiment with your favorite add-ins.
- Optional (Ice Cream, Hot Fudge): Add these to the warm cookie for a melt-in-your-mouth experience.
Quick Tip
When measuring flour for this deep-dish skillet cookie, make sure to spoon and level the flour. If you press a measuring cup into a container and push the flour into the cup, you’ll end up with way too much flour. Here’s how to spoon and level flour.
How To Make A Pizookie Recipe
- Make the Dough: Use a cookie dough recipe made for skillet baking.
- Split It: Divide the dough into two equal parts.
- Layer: Press half the dough into a greased skillet, then top with halved Reese’s cups.
- Top It: Mix M&M’s and chocolate chips into the rest of the dough, then press it on top.
- Bake: Bake at 350°F for 20–25 mins, until golden on the edges and soft in the middle.
- Serve: Add ice cream right on top and serve warm.
Recipe Tips
- Use room temp butter: Too soft or melted butter makes the dough too warm and causes uneven baking.
- Watch bake time: Pull it from the oven when the edges turn light golden. The center should stay soft and gooey.
- Serve warm: Best enjoyed hot with ice cream. Leftovers (without ice cream) can be stored at room temp, wrapped tightly.
- Storage tip: Don’t store pieces with melted ice cream. They’ll turn soggy.
Recipe Variations
- If you aren’t a fan of Reese’s, you can use virtually any chocolate candy for the middle of this Pizookie recipe (or leave it without a center filling altogether). Some other candies we’ve tried and loved include Rolos®, coarsely chopped Kit-Kats®, Hershey’s® chocolate bars.
- S’mores Version: Give our Smores Pizookie a try for a fun summer twist!
- Swap out the milk chocolate for semi-sweet, dark, or white chocolate (or use a combination of a few different chocolate chips).
- Add a drizzle of hot fudge or melted peanut butter on top of the fresh-from-the-oven Pizookie.
- Did you know you can make a perfect pizookie is the air fryer? Give this Air Fryer Pizookie a try!
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Pizookie Recipe
Equipment
- Large cast-iron pan or 9-inch cake pan
Ingredients
- 8 tablespoons unsalted butter 1/2 cup, at room temperature
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup + 1 tablespoon light brown sugar lightly packed
- 1 large egg at room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 10 to 12 Miniature Reese’s Cups unwrapped and cut in half
- 1/2 cup milk chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup M&M’s peanut butter or regular, 2 small packages
- Vanilla ice cream or whatever flavor you love; optional topping
- hot fudge topping optional topping
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Lightly grease or spray a 9-inch cast-iron skillet or 9-inch cake pan. Set aside.
- In a medium bowl, cream room-temperature butter (see note 1), granulated sugar, and brown sugar for about 2–3 minutes. Add in egg and vanilla. Mix until combined.
- In a separate bowl, stir together flour (see note 2), baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Add dry ingredients to the wet and mix until a dough forms. Do not overmix.
- Divide the dough in half. Press one half into the bottom of the skillet or cake pan and layer halved Reese’s cups on top.
- To the remaining cookie dough, add the milk chocolate chips and peanut butter M&M’s. Stir to combine, then press that remaining cookie dough on top of the Reese's cups and smooth the dough into 1 even layer. The Reese’s cups should be covered with dough.
- Bake for 20–25 minutes until the edges are light golden brown, keeping the center slightly soft for a perfect Pizookie.
- Serve immediately with ice cream and hot fudge if desired.
Recipe Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
My husband is going to looooove this! I can’t wait to make it!!!
Oh yay!! I hope you both like it 🙂
Oh wow this looks amazing! I love the addition of the peanut butter cups 🙂
Seriously insane! This is definitely the ultimate dessert, and my husband would go CRAZY over this, he pretty much subsists on cookies. Haha
Haha, I think our husbands would be best friends! Thanks Nicole 🙂 Have a great weekend lady!
Oh. My. Lord. This is perfect. Can you mail me one of these? I love absolutely everything about it! Also, really love the word pizookie. Never heard that one before! Reese’s are my favorite and I’m totally drooling thinking about them in the middle of this giant cookie.
Haha okay someone needs to find a way to mail food or send it over the internet! Then we could switch cookies and brownies all day long!! Thanks Beth! Have a great weekend 🙂
Looks like the ultimate cookie cake to me. I definitely need to keep this in mind for the next time there are a bunch of kids over. I just might win them all over with this awesomness!
Pinning to my skillet board. 🙂
Haha big huge skillet cookies are definitely the way to kids hearts 😉 Thanks Melanie and thanks for the pin!
OH. MY. I think I found a new dessert for this weekend!
Haha!! Yay! I hope you have a great weekend! And hopefully we can finally get together this coming week 🙂 Stay warm Melanie!
I would probably have just ignored all reason and gone to live at that dessert place. Although now I’m tempted to go live with you if it means we can have pizookies every day!
Haha now that is some sound logic!! 🙂 haha! Have a great weekend Joanne 🙂
Gorgeous photos girl! I love me a pizooke…especially with Reeses and M and Ms! I would like to face plant into this right now…at 6am please!
Haha 6 am cookie faceplant = best idea ever!
Oh man, this pizookie looks amazing! Love the Reese’s cups and M&M’s in here – I would rather have this for breakfast right now with all the works and cherry on top instead of my plain jane granola and oatmeal 😉
Hahaha! This would be a great breakfast, just wouldn’t feel so great after the fact haha! Have a great weekend Kelly 🙂
sonds like my kind of dessert place! I love, love cookies in skillets! who doesn’t love a warm cookie?! you must have ice cream! that is my favorite combination!
Totally agree! warm cookies + ice cream is the best combo! Thanks Alex 🙂