In this house, especially for myself and my daughter, this amazingly simple but incredibly delicious dessert is our top choice for celebrating something special – birthdays, a great report card, holidays, Thursday – you know, pretty much anything. It was inspired by the over the top Pizza Cookie or Pizookie from Oregano’s.
Since my daughter has a nut allergy, she doesn’t get to enjoy them in restaurants, so a mom does what she has to do… makes them at home. It just doesn’t get better than a warm and slightly gooey cookie topped with cold ice cream, caramel sauce and hot fudge. Add in some sprinkles for good measure.
And one of the best parts is that these are quite possibly the easiest dessert to make. Ever. While you can certainly make these from scratch, I have found that they are just as delicious using ready made cookie dough. I almost always have some on hand, making this a great last minute dessert when there is a reason to celebrate or when you need to pull off an impressive dessert without having time to prepare (or when you just excel at being unprepared, like myself). All you need is some cookie dough, ice cream and your favorite Smucker’s Toppings.
While the restaurants usually make these in a skillet, I make mine in individual ramekins. I lightly spray the ramekin with cooking spray, then crumble in some cookie dough.
I put my ramekins on a cookie sheet, just for ease of getting them in and out of the oven. I bake mine for about 15 minutes, but this is really subjective based on how much dough you use, how many you are cooking and how gooey you like yours. Personally I could go for 12 minutes, but for food safety I bake the ones I feed my kids for about 15 minutes or even a bit more.
And like TV magic, out of the oven they come…
I let them cool for about 10-15 minutes – again this is subjective. I could eat mine after a few minutes but don’t want the little ones to have them when they are too hot. Then top with ice cream and Smucker’s Ice Cream Toppings such as Hot Caramel and Hot Fudge.
It never ceases to amaze me how incredible these taste for how easy they are to make.
Smucker’s thought it would be fun to share some of our holiday traditions, so I put together some of the things we do every year for Christmas…
Some of our Christmas traditions include getting together with family to pick out Christmas Trees, checking out lots of holiday light displays, making homemade gifts (last year we did ornaments and our favorite chocolate covered pretzels), visits from our Elf On The Shelf, a Christmas Eve walk to look for Santa, leaving a letter for Santa (and our Elf), leaving out cookies and milk, Mom & Dad covering the hall entry with streamers to prevent kiddos from getting to the gifts before we are up (we will have to up the streamer barrier this year!), opening presents Christmas morning and a fondue feast with family sometime between Christmas and New Years. These are simple things that we always look forward to.
And because I love making birthdays special as well, I thought I would show you what we do for birthdays – lots of streamers and balloons to greet you on the morning of your birthday. I hope little traditions like these are ones my kids remember forever. 🙂
If you love Pizookies as much as we do you might want to also try…
Double Chocolate Candy Cane Pizza Cookie
Single Serving Deep Dish Cookie A La Mode – Microwave Style
And Brownie A La Anytime. I told you we love these!
Meet Christi, Love From The Oven
I’m Christi I love sharing easy & delicious recipes that your family & friends will love. I’m a mom, baker, cookbook author and lover of sprinkles.
we make cookies together i used to make them with my mom and sister but since I live so far away and have my own family my husband and son make them with me. We decorate the tree together and go look at christmas lights, my son is two so creating traditions with him is fun its his first year that hes really understanding what Christmas is.
I love caramel on everything.
Brownies topped with peppermint ice cream is our holiday favorite.
We usually have Christmas breakfast, versus dinner. I like to make a couple of casseroles the night before, then pop them into the oven in the morning, while we tear into presents. Favorite time of year, period!
Dream whip tops my holiday desserts!
I really love to candy walnuts and get some Blue Bell vanilla bean ice cream with some fresh chocolate chip cookies and put them together and top them with smuckers hot fudge and marshmallow. I know it sounds like a lot but it became a favorite when I was pregnant around Christmas. Also love baking a pound cake and while everyone else is enjoying the lemon glaze I save me a slice for some hot fudge to be drizzled on. I think I have a hot fudge obsession. 🙂
I always try to make several kinds of candy and goodies, then my girls and I package them in pretty things to give to friends and family. It’s a special time together.
We always have grasshopper pie at Christmas – I have made it “my own” by putting hot fudge on top of the Oreo cookie crust and then pour in the filling. The fudge gives in an extra something special!
We love to top our holiday desserts with real, homemade whipped cream! It’s the only time of year when we take the time to make it ourselves and it is so worth it!!!
One of our family holiday traditions is to take a whole evening – spend it driving around looking at the beautiful Christmas lights! There are some creative designs! We love spending the evening together and finish it off with a delicious cup of hot chocolate!