This Giant Skillet is quick to make AND you make it all in the one pot. Stir it together and eat it with friends
“I’d just like a cookie that is so big it would take me all day to eat it”, said my friend Sally. I looked at her and realised that she really meant it. Sally can eat more cake, cookies and pastry than anybody I have ever met. Her house is the ideal place to deliver excess baking of any kind. That is where these giant cookies have found a home. Sally has been very down lately and I wanted to surprise her with these giant skillet cookies. “Skillet” or frypan baking has been quite the trend for a while, especially in the US, where cookies are an addiction. You’ll find all sorts of Giant Skillet Cookies are served in restaurants there.
Giant Chocolate cookie
Giant Skillet Cookies made in one pot no bowl no mixer
There are no end of flavours you can make. Add fruit or any kind of nuts. Keep them as simple as the chocolate chip one above or have a little play like the chocolate hazelnut one.
Fudgy and warm
Here’s how to make them. They are quick and so very perfect for a shared dessert.
Grab these ingredients plus 1 egg
get a skillet
Melt the butter
till just done
Add the sugar
Stir the sugar into the butter
Until incorporated
Add the egg and stir
Add half the flour and stir
It will be incorporated and smooth
Add the rest of the dry ingredients and the chocolate chips
Mix well
Flatten out
Once it is completely mixed top with nuts or something else
Bake for 18-20 minutes
Giant Skillet Cookie
Ingredients
- 125 gm butter
- 80 gm brown sugar 1/2 cup
- 100 gm caster sugar granulated sugar, 1/2 cup
- 1 Egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 225 gm flour 1 1/2 cups
- 1 teaspoon bi carbonate of soda
- 150 gm chocolate chips or chopped chocolate
- 50 gm macadamias or any nut
Instructions
- You will need an ovenproof skillet or fypan around 24 cm/ 10 in. Pre- heat the oven to 180 C/ 350 F
- Put the skillet onto the stove top and add chopped butter. Leave over a medium heat till the butter has only just melted. Turn off the heat
- Add the two sugars and vanilla to the frypan and stir well.
- Crack the egg into a cup and break up with a fork and stir into the sugar butter mix
- Mix the flour and bi carb together well and add 1/2 to the frypan stirring well.
- Add the remaining flour and chocolate chips and stir. Flatten down the mixture and add nuts (if using)
- Bake the cookie for 18-20minutes, or until just firm.
- Serve the cookie in the skillet with icecream or wait till it is cool and release onto a plate
Notes
To make this gluten free you can substitute 1 cup of hazelnut FLOUR
1/4 cup of flour ( or gluten free flour)
1/4 cup cocoa powder
Serve warm with icecream
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Hi Tania! I love this recipe so much, makes my mouth water each time I look at it. Thanks for being a part of the YBR this month:) I’ll catch up on your blog later. xx
I used to make giant cookies when I was younger after the Sex and the City Episode where Miranda is given a giant cookie in a pizza box. I’ve never actually made one in a pan. It looks really cute. 🙂
I love this cookie recipe!! And the skillet idea is just too adorable 🙂
What a totally cool concept! My kids would love this 😀
When you said giant, you weren’t kidding. What a thoughtful gesture. 🙂
I can smell your giant cookie from here!
I’ve heard the term ‘one pot wonder’, we’ll have to start a ‘one skillet wonder’ trend 😉
i like your hazelnut variation, tania! the only trouble with big cookies is that i never know when a reasonable portion has been consumed. 🙂