Red Velvet Pizookies

Heart-shaped red velvet pizookies are the cutest dessert you can make to tell someone you love them! The cookie is ooey and gooey in the center with the perfect crispy edges all around. When the cold ice cream melts into the freshly baked hot cookie, it creates the best sweet bite you’ll ever have!

One of my favorite places growing up to satisfy my sweet tooth was BJ’s restaurant and it was not for the food. It was solely for the pizookies which if you’ve never had one before, it’s the one thing better than a cookie. Imagine a large cookie baked fresh that comes to your table piping hot with scoops of creamy vanilla ice cream on top. For Valentine’s Day, I thought it would be cute to make red velvet pizookies in the shape of a heart and they’re not only super fun to make but pretty easy!

Making the Dough

There are three parts to making the cookie dough: the dry ingredients, the wet, and then the add-ins. Let’s start with the dry ingredients!

Here Is What You Need for the Dry Ingredients:

• All purpose flour
• Cocoa powder
• Cornstarch
• Salt
• Baking soda

Just add all the ingredients above to a mixing bowl and whisk together. If you’ve never added cornstarch to cookie dough before, it helps make them extra soft and chewy!

Now for the Wet Ingredients:

• Unsalted butter
• Brown sugar
• White sugar
• Egg and egg yolk
• Vanilla extract
• Red food coloring

Add the melted butter, brown sugar, white sugar, egg, egg yolk, vanilla extract, and red food coloring to a mixing bowl and whisk together for a minute or two until completely combined and smooth. It should be very bright red! You can also use the paddle attachment on a stand mixer or use a a hand held mixer instead of a whisk.

Now, add in the dry ingredients and combine this time with a rubber spatula or a paddle attachment if using a stand mixer. You should have a nice cookie dough consistency! It will firm up more after we add it to the fridge.

Finally, The Add-Ins:

• White chocolate chips
• Semi-sweet chocolate chips
• Oreos

Add in the white chocolate chips, semi-sweet chocolate chips, and chopped Oreos. Mix in with a rubber spatula or paddle attachment and that’s it. The dough is now ready! You can let it rest for 20 minutes for the dough to set but I also get lazy and bake them right away and they turn out perfectly fine either way. Cover and pop in the fridge for 30 minutes to firm up and let the flavors meld together.

Baking The Cookies

Start by preheating the oven to 350°F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and add scoop out the dough onto the sheet, about 1/4 cup size each. If you have a large ice cream scoop, that is what I use to size each of them equally. Each baking sheet will fit 6 cookies. Do not overcrowd them.

Pop in the oven to bake for 11 to 12 minutes. They will be golden brown on the edges and still very soft in the center. They may appear uncooked in the center but keep this in mind: you do not want to over-bake them because they will firm up as they cool down out of the oven.

Where to Get the Heart Skillet

I purchased my heart skillets from Target and they came as a part of a kit with cookie dough ingredients but I only used the skillet. I will say they are not great but I couldn’t find heart skillets anywhere else. MY complaint is that they’re super thin and not deep at all so the dough did overflow the sides a bit while baking in the oven. They’re also very cheaply made so after one use and washing them, they already rusted and I had to toss them out. But at least they served their function once.

The good news is this would work in heart shaped pan as well or just a round skillet. It does not have to heart shaped and it does not have to be a skillet.

Variations to Try

• Instead of white chocolate chips and semi-sweet chocolate chunks, add Oreo cookies & creme chocolate and Oreos
• Bake into individual cookies instead of a skillet pizookie!

Can I Prepare This Ahead of Time

Yes, if you want to make this ahead of time, just prepare the dough, shape it into your skillet, cover it, and keep in the fridge to bake later. If you want to keep in the freezer for longer, portion out the dough into portions the size of your skillet and then just thaw it out before using so you can easily shape them into your skillet.

Other Valentine’s Themed Recipes to Try

• Heart-Shaped Churros
• No-Bake Oreo Heart Truffles
• Cheese Heart Danishes

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