Can you imagine anything more insanely delicious than cookie dough Dessert Pizza? There’s so much to love about this fun new sweet twist on a favorite; chocolate chip cookies, hot fudge, and pizza crust! This pizza comes together in a flash and only uses 4 ingredients!
Why This is the BEST Pizza Dessert
This recipe was originally posted in 2018 and updated in 2021 to include more information. The recipe is the same.
When I wrote this recipe I was in the middle of homeschooling my 4th grader! NOT fun!
I’m already a super busy working mom and adding one more thing to my plate was about more than I could handle.
Are you feeling my pain? I bet you’ve been in those exact same shoes before. Maybe it wasn’t homeschool that was taking all your time, but I know you have your own version of a full plate.
That’s why I survive on recipes like THIS! It’s so easy to make and my kids went crazy for it!
A pizzeria in town made this pizza and I fell in love with it. I was NOT in love with the fact that it was a buffet. I’m not into any restaurant that has a sneeze guard! Just saying!
Anyway, I was determined to learn how to make that pizza at home and I finally nailed it! It’s even better than what you can order from Pizza Hut, Papa Murphy’s, Dominos, or my beloved buffet place!
Ingredients in Cookie Dough Pizza
I love giving you suggestions for substitutions because I want you to be able to make this recipe even if you don’t have all the ingredients on hand!
- CRUST: Rhodes frozen dough, store-bought pizza dough, or homemade pizza crust. Using frozen dough really does make this recipe quick and easy!
- SAUCE: My favorite is my Homemade Hot Fudge Sauce). You could also use Nutella or store-bought chocolate fudge sauce.
- COOKIE DOUGH: Store-bought chocolate chip cookie dough, or your favorite homemade cookie dough recipe if you’re feeling ambitious! You’ll need to make a small batch or bake or freeze the extra cookie dough.
- GLAZE: I like using a can of prepared vanilla frosting. If you want to make your own, simply add enough milk to powdered sugar to create soft frosting consistency. You’ll need about 1/2 cup powdered sugar and start with a teaspoon of milk.
How to Make Cookie Pizza
Making pizza for dessert really is so easy! Let me tell you about a few of the tips I learned to make it even easier and fool-proof!
I’m going for the rustic look here! The BEST sauce ever!
STEP 1: Rolling out pizza dough can be tricky! It’s elasticity makes it stretchy and it always wants to shrink back into a tiny ball! The most important part is kneading the dough first, then let it set for a minute to relax. It will be so much easier to work with and shape. Grease the pan first, unless it’s a pizza stone. Use your fingers to press it towards the edges of the pan. If the dough is sticking to your fingers you can spray your hands with nonstick cooking spray. If it’s still shrinking after you’ve smoothed it, let it rest for a few minutes and press again.
STEP 2: Spreading chocolate sauce over the pizza crust is much easier if it’s warm. Microwaving hot fudge sauce is the easiest way to make it spreadable. Only heat what you need.
The cookie dough will spread! Heavenly!
STEP 3: Add raw cookie dough over the chocolate sauce layer. Cookie dough is clumpy and sticks together. It’s totally okay if the chocolate chip cookie dough isn’t completely covering the whole pizza. Cookies spread as they bake. The easiest way to add the cookie dough is to open get a large serving spoon and get a big spoonful of cookie dough. Use a butter knife to cut little pieces of dough off of the serving spoon and let them fall onto the pizza. Seriously, don’t worry about it looking rustic! It will all work out!
STEP 4: Bake the pizza dessert in a preheated oven with the rack in the center of the oven.
STEP 5: Drizzle vanilla icing over the pizza. (See tips in the ingredients section above). Warm up a few Tablespoons of vanilla frosting in the microwave for a few seconds to make it easier to drizzle. Either use a spoon to drizzle or pour it out of a measuring cup.
FAQs about Dessert Pizza
Let pizza cool before storing. Stack pizza in an airtight container with pieces of parchment paper or aluminum foil between layers. Keep in the refrigerator for up to three days.
Absolutely! Pizza freezes really well! You can assemble the pizza and freeze it unbaked for up to three months. Or, freeze leftover pieces of pizza in airtight containers or freezer bags. My kids love taking leftover pizza to school for lunches. It doesn’t get any easier than grabbing a slice from the freezer and sticking it in their lunchboxes.
Heck yes! It’s built on a crust, has sauce, and toppings! It counts! You can get creative with the toppings. Use fruit, cookies, caramel, peanut butter cups, marshmallows, apples and cinnamon, or any other sweet toppings you can think of!
Of course, a green salad and ranch dressing are perfect with pizza. But what about dessert? I love serving more pizza…dessert pizza! If you’re looking for other options ice cream is always a hit.
More Easy Cookie Dessert Recipes:
If I had to chose one dessert for the rest of my life, it would definitely be chocolate chip cookies! But, really I’ve never met a cookie I didn’t love!
Here are a few more really easy cookie recipes I know you’ll love! Cookie dough mix, store bought cookie dough, and cake mix cookies make desserts extra quick and easy. Most of these recipes start with one of those time savers!
- Peanut Butter Fudge Cookie Bars: A layer of fudge sandwiched between peanut butter cookies!
- Cake Mix Chocolate Chip Cookies: The best chewy bar cookies!
- Chocolate Chip Icebox Cake: A simple no bake dessert with store bought cookies.
- Carrot Cake Cookies: The best thick and chewy cake mix cookies.
- Caramel Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars: These insanely delicious bar cookies with a caramel filling.
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Chocolate Chip Cookie Pizza Desserts Recipe:
Cookie Dough Dessert Pizza
Ingredients
- 1 pizza crust
- 3/4 cup hot fudge sauce
- 16 ounces cookie dough
- 1/4 cup vanilla frosting
Instructions
- Move rack to the center position in the oven. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Grease pizza pan and roll dough out, or spread it in pizza pan to make the crust.
- Warm up 1/2 -¾ cups hot fudge sauce. I stick it in the microwave for a few seconds. You just need it warm enough to spread easily.
- Crumble cookie dough over hot fudge sauce. I use my trusty fingers.
- Bake for 12-15 minutes.
- Let pizza cool for about 5 minutes.
- Warm up additional hot fudge sauce and vanilla icing and drizzle over pizza.
- Slice into pieces and dig in!
Notes
- Store-bought pizza crust
- Use frozen white bread dough
- Homemade pizza crust
- I like buying prepared cookie dough for this recipe because it’s so fast and easy.
- Homemade cookie dough will work great too.
- Thaw Rhodes frozen dough according to package directions. I used one loaf and let it sit out overnight. Before spreading the dough out I always let it rest for a few minutes and it seems to make it so much easier to work with.
- One frozen loaf of dough is just right for a 15-inch pizza pan.
JOY ROBLES says
how do make the hot fudge sauce and the vanilla icing?
Amy Engberson says
I added information on making the icing in the post but didn’t add it to the recipe card. I’ll edit that. This is what I do. Add enough milk to powdered sugar to create soft drizzling frosting consistency. You’ll need about 1/2 cup powdered sugar and start with a teaspoon of milk. Start with a little bit of milk and add more as needed. I also use my homemade hot fudge recipe, but you can use store-bought too. Hopefully, this helps!
Nancy Collins says
If you use Nutella instead of the hot fudge sauce do you need to heat it in the microwave as well?
Amy Engberson says
You can try spreading it without heating it first, but I think it will be too stiff. I’d microwave it just until it’s soft enough to spread. Let me know how it goes!
Jenna says
I’m interested to read more about how your homeschool journey is going. We are considering homeschooling our daughter, but I am afraid of exactly what you mentioned about being a shut in.
Amy Engberson says
Hi Jenna! There are obviously pros and cons to homeschooling. This is the second time I’ve homeschooled a child, both for different reasons. One child needed a little extra help, and with this child I didn’t think he was being taught enough at school.
Let’s talk about the pros first! Homeschool is so much more efficient than traditional school. I think we probably cover at least twice as much material as they do at school, and spend a little bit less time in class everyday. I’m preatty hard core so we do have a very structured schedule though. I structure the teaching around his learning style so he grasps every single concept, and if he doesn’t we can work on it another day. If he gets the concept really quickly we can move on. I correct each assignment the same day it’s turned in because I want to make sure he is proficient in each concept before moving on. A school principal told me that if a mom has access to materials, has the time and desire to teach her child, and is intelligent a public education will never measure up to the homeschooling education she can give her child.
Now, the Debbie Downer…the cons! My child is a social butterfly! He misses his friends terribly. I think there is much to be learned from associating with other people besides mom. It’s good for them to learn to take turns, work in an environment that’s not completely suited to their needs, and learn from a teaching method that’s not tailored to them. Sometimes we have to learn in situations that are’t ideal and they need to be able to adapt. As far as my life goes, adding homeschool to my plate makes it almost unmanageable. It’s a huge committment. I keep all of our farm books, manage my blog, and am still a mom and wife; add those up and it’s way beyond a full time job without homeschool! I have to get up earlier, stay up later, and let go of somethings. My family is good to pitch in and help fill in the gaps, but there is still plenty that’s falling through the cracks. Because my homeschool is so structured I have a hard time making appointments, getting out to see friends, or even chatting on the phone with my sister! I’m pretty committed to school most of the day.
I’m planning to send my child back to school next year so I can play the mental game of, “I only have 47 more days left. I can do anything for 47 days!” I know I will get to reclaim my life soon! Who knows how stragley my hair will be by then! I remind my self of his progress often which helps. And I think if I was homeschooling for a longer period of time I wouldn’t feel as much pressure to cram so much material in each day. I could spread it out a litte more.
Homeschooling is really tough. But in the end I think it’s a far superior education. You just have to decide what’s right for your child, you, and your whole family. You also have to consider your relationship with that child and determine if you can still be friends, the teacher, and the mom at the same time. It works for us!
Good luck! Let me know if I can help you!
Erin Dee says
I would definitely have to agree with you that this dessert pizza looks insanely delicious!! I bet this disappears fast!
Krista says
Pizza for dessert! Count me in!
Amy Engberson says
No doubt! I’d always go for dessert first!
Erin | Dinners,Dishes and Dessert says
This looks irresistible! Absolutely gorgeous!
Amy Engberson says
Thanks! We pretty much ate it for all three meals last time I made it!
Katerina @ diethood .com says
My kids would absolutely LOVE this cookie dough pizza!!! It looks fantastic!
Amy Engberson says
This pizza is kid heaven! Who am I kidding it’s mom heaven too!
Sues says
How fun is this?? My only worry is that I would eat this entire pizza on my own because I can already tell I’d have no self control around this baby!
Amy Engberson says
I hear you! You must be familiar with the whole, “I’m just going to have one more half of a slice” thinking. Then I repeat that whole thought process over and over! So worth it though!
Amanda says
I love pizza and I love dessert… so this is a fantastic recipe for me!!
Amy Engberson says
We could be BFF’s! You can’t ever go wrong with pizza and dessert in the same bite!
Ginny McMeans says
I just have to love you for this. It is so simple (Rhodes is the best) and that pizza looks delicious!
Amy Engberson says
Thanks! Rhodes makes my life so much easier! It’s one of my favorite time savers!
Dee says
My kids would love to have this for dessert! Looks amazing! 🙂
Amy Engberson says
Pizza is always a winner with kids…add cookies to it and it’s all the better!
Katie | Healthy Seasonal Recipes says
Lol, Roman numerals aren’t much competition! That made me laugh out loud. Go you in being so on top of home-schooling. And yummy idea for the dessert pizza too. The cookie dough is quite the innovation!
Amy Engberson says
Lol! He was getting frustrated with his Roman Numeral lesson and I kept having to look at the answer key. I mean who ever uses them besides in telling time anyway! And I can’t even tell you how yummy cookies are on top of pizza!
Swathi says
This is double joy, pizza and cookie, my kids will love it. I need to try it for my kids as they are spring break.
Amy Engberson says
That’s sounds like such a fun thing to do together for spring break! It’s a good recipe to let the kids help with too!
Angie | Big Bear's Wife says
I would do all of my work to have some of this pizza too! Yum! Congrats on Homeschooling! I hope it all goes well!
Amy Engberson says
Thanks Angie! Homeschooling is definitely an adjustment but it’s also so rewarding because he’s learning so much so quickly! And I’m totally not above bribing him with Cookie Dough Dessert Pizza!
Hayley says
I think it’s wonderful that you value his education so much! Homeschooling is a lot of work. But cookie dough makes it a little bit easier I think!
Amy Engberson says
Cookie dough makes everything more doable right? At least it does at my house!
Ali Randall says
What a genius idea for a truly unique dessert pizza. I know who kids in my household who are gonna love making this recipe. Delicious!
Amy Engberson says
Thanks! There is never any complaining about this pizza!