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 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.
Here’s how to make them. They are quick and so very perfect for a shared dessert.
Stir the sugar into the butter
Until incorporated
It will be incorporated and smooth
Flatten out
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
Comin up “Food and more food, George Clooney and my night with 6 Italian Men”
Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella
Hehe although we did say that the shortbread cookies at the afternoon tea were too big I think this size is just about perfect for a cookie of this sort! 😀
Diane
Am still nibbling my way through one of those deliciously chewy and chocolatey cookie that you made Tania. All the others can be jealous…I am so lucky to have you around!!!
Nic
Wow! What a great idea, I’ve never seen cookies made like this before but it looks delicious!
Swah
Oooo skillet cookies have been on my to-do list for a very long time, this looks really easy and VERY tasty!!
yummychunklet
What a great looking skillet cookie!
Nic@diningwithastud
😮 the cookie message possibilities are ENDLESS 😀
Simone
That is indeed one mean cookie you made there! I love the idea of baking a cookie in a skillet! Am gonna remember that for a next time..
Angie@Angie's Recipes
You are so sweet 🙂
This is one gorgeous giant skillet cookie, Tania.
Kari @ bite-sized thoughts
I’ve heard of skillet cookies but really had no idea how they were made or how they’d look. Thanks for enlightening me! It sounds like quite a fun way to bake (or not bake 😉 ).
Hotly Spiced
You are a tease, Tania, leaving us dangling about your six Italian lovers! I have never cooked a cookie like that but it does look like it would be highly addictive as it looks very soft and chewy. Also…just thought I should let you know that your blog takes a long time to load. Not sure who’s looking after it for you but you might want to mention it to them! xx
JJ - 84thand3rd
I love the reason you made this, what a good friend. How great that it is all mixed right in the skillet too! Cookie cake is always a win 🙂
Joanne T Ferguson
G’day and what a very fun thing to do!
Sally IS lucky being your friend and you are a good one too!
I am craving your cookie now and is only brekkie! 🙂
Cheers! Joanne
Victoria of Flavors of the Sun
What a fun recipe, Tania–so much easier than scooping out trays of cookies!
InTolerant Chef
Love that last photo Tania! I’ve seen these around for a while now too, and can see why they’re such a big hit. So sweet and just a bit soft in the middle, yours looks perfect indeed! X
Nancy/SpicieFoodie
Sally is one lucky lady and you are such a good friend Tania! I’ve never used a skillet pan nor eaten a cookie made on one, my loss. My mouth is watering so much at your photos and I could use a slice with ice cream right about now;)
Christine @ Cooking Crusade
Wow! The danger of me making one of these would be the difficulty in not eating the whole thing!
Maureen | Orgasmic Chef
Are you making one for each of us? Lordy that looks good.
GourmetGetaways
Oh Tanya, how could anyone ever be down around you??
What a great friend 🙂
I have noticed the skillet cookies appearing everywhere… I am going to have to try this myself.
Amy @ Melbourne Food Snob
This is such a great idea! I don’t think I’ll ever bother messing around making individual cookies again when I can just mix and cook everything in the one skillet. Looks awesome 🙂
the kitchen crusader
this is unnecessary in the best kind of way, the delicious way. I love the inventiveness!