What’s Cooking in Gail’s Kitchen? Food Junkie Favorites: X-tra Large Chocolate Chip Cookie! Here’s to the Cookie Monster in all of us. If you live your life on a grande scale, this recipe will easily become a family favorite. My husband said, “It’s like indulging in a giant Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup!” I can’t remember the last time I had this much fun with a cookie recipe. By baking the dough in an iron skillet, the edges got a little crispy while the center stayed super-chewy. If you didn’t know better, you’d think this came straight from the neighborhood bakery. Fill up a glass of milk and indulge yourself.
X-TRA LARGE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE
Ingredients:
1 1/4 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon sea salt crystals
10 tablespoons butter, softened
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup peanut butter
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
3/4 cup peanut butter chips
3/4 cup chocolate chips
1 tablespoon semi-sweet chocolate mini morsels for garnish
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350°. Grease the bottom and sides of a 9″ iron skillet with two tablespoons butter. Set aside. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, and sea salt. Set aside. Cream together butter, sugar, brown sugar, and peanut butter. Beat on high for 2 minutes. Add egg and vanilla to blend. Reduce speed to low and add dry ingredients. Mix to combine. Stir in peanut butter and chocolate chips. Press the cookie dough into the prepared iron skillet. Bake for 20-25 minutes until a golden color and edges are crisp. Check with a toothpick to be sure the cookie is cooked through in the center. Remove from oven. Let cool 10 minutes; loosen edges. Turn onto a round pizza pan. Reinvert back onto a platter, slice, and serve warm with a scoop of ice cream or a dollop of whipped cream.
Wow! Looks fabulous.
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Aren’t we all “Cookie Monsters” inside?!? 🍪🍂😍
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Oh, absolutely!
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That’s really such a Cookie Monster! I love cookies, but an extra large chocolate chip cookie really caught my eye! 🍪👍☺️
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It’s not only yummy, it’s a conversation starter. 😜🍃🍪😋
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Indeed! 😜 A long time ago, I tried out normal cookies with a bit of chocolate chips sprinkled on top, and it was very delicious. Cookies are one of my most favorite sweet biscuits. 😋🍪
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Plus, it’s a portable dessert that never goes out of style. 🍪🍪😋🍪
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You’re right! It never goes out of style at all. 🍪😋🍪
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I don’t dare make this.
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Why, Peggy? Or rather, Why Not?! 🍪🍪🍂🍪
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Cannot make, because I’d eat the entire thing in 1 day!! (for real)
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ps: If you top the hot cookie with ice cream, you’ll have a BJ’S Pizza pizookie. If you invite me to share it, I’ll be a jerk about enforcing my personal rule that all the ice cream be smooshed to even distribution over the entire cookie before anyone takes a bite.
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Rules are meant to be broken. I want my ice cream in a scoop or a dollop. 😜🍃🍨🍪
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NO! YOU MUST SMOOSH IT!! 😄
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Nope. That would make it soggy as if milk was poured over it. 🥛🍃🍪
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I haven’t had that happen. Then again, a friend left to use the restroom and he only got some of the 2 pizookies (for 3 of us) because I told the other friend that we HAD to save some for him. BJ’S now offers smaller “personal” pizookies, but I also consciously eat slower now (courtesy of noticing how rapidly families order, eat & leave fast food places). 😶🌫️ (no idea what that emoji means but it’s cute)
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We like to take our time over dinner. What’s the big hurry?
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If you ate the whole thing, you’d probably get a stomach ache. 🤣🍃
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OH, yum! This looks amazing!🍪
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Marcia, I must confess, it was so easy I had to pinch myself. 😋🍪😋🍪😋
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I am drooling here! Cast iron does make cooking and baking extra yummy for me too!
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My cast iron pan is a workhorse, that’s for sure. 🍳😋
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That is one BIG cookie!!!!!! YUMMY!
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Beats the heck out of trays or cookies made one-by-one. 🍪🍨🍪🍨🍪
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Anything that tastes like a giant Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup gets an immediate 10/10 in my book! Peanut butter chips combined with chocolate chips in a skillet cookie is absolute perfection. Thanks for sharing this delicious recipe!
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Always. We like what we like. 🍪🍪🍪
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Yes Gail! We like what we like 😃😃
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It looks amazing!
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Thank you very much. 🍪🍪🍪
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An extra large chocolate chip cookie? No problem, lemme grab my gallon of milk!
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See???? You get it, M. 🥛🥛🍃🍪🍪
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Most definitely
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