If you love the flavor of Bailey’s Irish Cream, you are in for a special treat with this gluten-free skillet cookie recipe! You will be hooked too with one bite of this deliciously moist and chewy gluten-free pizookie (yup, that is a thing!). 

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We have been baking up a storm here at the Fearless Dining household, trying to get ready for the holidays. Although we have our favorite cookie recipes, we are always experimenting with flavors to come up with new gluten-free cookie recipes.

I am super excited to share my newest discovery with you. This is for those who love Bailey’s Irish Cream. There is a new chocolate chip in town, and this one has all of the flavors of Bailey’s!! BAILEYS® Original Irish Cream Baking Chips are non-alcoholic, kosher dairy, semi-sweet baking chips that help bring the smooth taste of BAILEYS® to all your favorite homemade desserts!

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Why This Recipe is Great:

  1. Perfect Texture: This gluten free skillet chocolate chip cookie recipe is what a cookie should be. Slightly soft, chewy, and full of melted chocolate chips.
  2. Celebration: It makes a great cookie for a birthday celebration or a gluten-free dessert anytime.
  3. Flexibility: You can make it as a giant cookie or use the cookie dough to make drop-style cookies.
  4. Make Ahead: This is a great recipe to make and bake when needed. You can even freeze the cookie dough for later.
Drizzling hot fudge over the skillet cookie.

Do you prefer to call this cookie a giant, skillet, or pizookie? This has been hotly debated in our house, and we still have not determined a winner on this one.

A pizookie is a cross between a cookie and a pizza…cookie style! Whatever you decide to call this cookie…you will want to make this recipe over and over again with these new chips!

Making this recipe with the kids was so much fun. This cookie is so good with vanilla ice cream and hot fudge! 

Top Pick
King Arthur, Measure for Measure Flour 3 lbs

This is one of my favorite gluten-free flour blends for cookies, cakes, pie crust, biscuits, and muffins! (Do not use this flour blend for yeast recipes.)

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Ingredient Notes:

Photos of the skillet cookie ingredients on the counter.
  • Gluten Free Flour Blend – I have tested this recipe with King Arthur Measure for Measure GF, Bob’s Red Mill 1 to 1 GF blend, and Authentic Foods Multi Blend. That doesn’t mean others will not work; I have not tested other flours.
  • Binder – If your gluten free flour blend doesn’t contain Xanthan Gum or Guar Gum, please add one teaspoon.
  • Baking Powder – Use aluminum-free.
  • Baileys Chips – Feel free to use chocolate chips if you can’t find these specialty chips.
  • Butter – Use unsalted butter.
  • Eggs – Use size large eggs.
  • Vanilla Extract – Use pure vanilla extract and not imitation.

Substitutions:

  • For dairy-free, use plant-based butter.
  • If you can’t find Bailey’s chips, use any chocolate chips or flavored chips.
  • Bob’s Mill Egg Replacer works to make this cookie egg-free.

Tips For Sucess:

  • Use room-temperature butter and eggs. Using butter and eggs at room temperature sounds a little weird, but it dramatically helps how your cookies will turn out. You’ll thank yourself later if you try it.
  • Take special care to measure correctly. If you add in too much gluten free flour or other ingredients, it can mess with the cookies as they bake.
  • Be sure to grease the cast iron skillet with a little light cooking oil so the cookie comes out easily.

For more tips, check out my Gluten Free Cookie Troubleshooting Guide and Tools for Baking Cookies.

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Recipe Step-By-Step Directions:

Are you ready to make this delicious gluten-free skillet cookie recipe?

Skillet cookie photos of steps 1 and 2.

Step 1: Add your dry ingredients to a large mixing bowl and whisk to blend.

Step 2: Mix the melted butter, egg, and vanilla in a bowl.

Skillet cookie photos of steps 3 and 4.

Step 3: Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients, add Bailey’s chips, and mix well. If you are making drop cookies, chill the cookie dough. You do not need to chill the dough if baking in a skillet.

🔑 Sandi says: Note: you can also use a stand mixer or electric hand mixer to mix up your dough. Add the chips in after the cookie dough is formed so they are not chopped.

The cookie dough in a cast-iron skillet.

Step 4: Your dough is now ready to put into the skillet! Add the dough to the pan and let it sit for 10 minutes (optional.) This helps soften the rice flour in the flour blend to eliminate grit. Note: with Authentic Foods Multiblend, you don’t have to do this because their flour blend is milled extra fine.

Step 5: Bake your cookie for 20 minutes at 350º F or until done (depending on the size of your pan or if you make these drop style.) If you make this into drop-style cookies, bake for 8 minutes.

The top view of the baked skillet cookie next to a bag of chips.

You can also make these Gluten Free Maple Walnut Cookie Bars in a skillet!

Recipe FAQ:

How do you make cookies in a cast-iron skillet?

Baking cookies in your cast-iron skillet is really easy. Rub butter or coconut oil all along the bottom and sides of the pan. Add your cookie dough and bake!

What size cast-iron skillet is best to make a cookie?

I used a 10-inch cast-iron skillet to make this gluten free skillet chocolate chip cookie. If you want to use a larger skillet, you will need to double the recipe.

Can you make this cookie stovetop?

That is a great question; unfortunately, you can’t make this cookie stovetop. The direct heat to the bottom of the pan will burn your cookie.

How do you store a skillet cookie?

This cookie will keep up to 4 days in an air-tight container or up to 4 months in the freezer.

More Gluten Free Cookies Recipes:

The Ultimate Gluten-Free Skillet Cookie

Sandi Gaertner
A delicious gluten-free skillet cookie topped with ice cream, hot fudge, and with Bailey's chocolate chips.
4.80 from 20 votes
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Prep Time 8 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 28 minutes
Course Gluten Free Cookies and Bar Recipes, Gluten Free Dessert Recipes
Cuisine American
Servings 10
Calories 239 kcal

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Ingredients
  

  • 1 ½ cup gluten free flour blend * see note
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • â…› teaspoon salt
  • 2 eggs
  • ½ cup butter melted
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • ½ cup BAILEYS® Original Irish Cream Baking Chips

Instructions
 

  • Preheat the oven to 350º F.
  • In a bowl, add the dry ingredients and whisk to blend.
  • In a smaller bowl, add your wet ingredients and mix well.
  • Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and add the chips. Mix well.
  • Rub a cast-iron skillet with butter or coconut oil and add the cookie dough.
  • Press the dough down flat and place the skillet in the oven.
  • Bake for 20 minutes until ready.

Notes

  1. I have tested this recipe with King Arthur Measure for Measure GF and Bob’s Red Mill 1 to 1 GF blend. That doesn’t mean others will not work, I just have not tested other flours.
  2. If your gluten free flour blend doesn’t contain Xanthan Gum or Guar Gum, please add 1 teaspoon.
  3. To make drop style cookies, use a cookie scoop to drop the cookie dough onto a parchment-lined baking sheet. Bake for 8 minutes. Remove from the oven and allow to cool on a cooling rack.
  4. To test for doneness, insert a toothpick into the center of the donut. If the toothpick comes out clean, it is done baking. If you see batter or crumbs, the cookie needs to bake longer.
  5. This skillet cookie will keep up to 4 days in an air-tight container, or up to 4 months in the freezer.

SPECIAL NOTE

Please know that every gluten free flour blend has a different starch to grain ratio. If you use a blend I didn’t test, you may need to adjust your moisture levels in your baked goods.

Nutrition

Serving: 1gCalories: 239kcalCarbohydrates: 35gProtein: 3gFat: 11gSaturated Fat: 6gCholesterol: 57mgSodium: 184mgPotassium: 82mgFiber: 2gSugar: 22gVitamin A: 331IUCalcium: 55mgIron: 1mg
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This post was updated from an older December 2019 post with more recipe details.

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24 Comments

  1. These look and sound delicious! Do you know if I can use vegan butter in place of regular butter? My daughter has to eat GF and DF for the time being.

  2. Exited to try this, and I REALLY want to use the baileys chips, but can’t find them anywhere.. any suggestions???

  3. 4 stars
    I made your cookies as a drop cookie and they just spread out flat as a pancake. How did you make yours in the picture so that they didn’t spread out very much? Did you put the cookie dough in the refrigerator before making the cookies?

    1. Hi Sheryl, What gluten free flour blend did you use? Once I know, we can further troubleshoot. Starch-heavy blends tend to spread more because there isn’t as much grain flour to hold them together. Also, did your gluten free flour blend contain a binder?

      1. 4 stars
        I used King Arthur Measure for Measure flour that comes in a white bag and it had xanthum gum in it as a binder.

        Thanks,
        Sheryl

  4. 4 stars
    We loved this skillet cookie. It was delicious. When I baked it the outside cooked faster than the middle so when I checked the middle it seemed to be done and the outside edges were really done. When I cut it the middle was not quite done but I didn’t want the outside edges being hard and over done. Do you have any suggestions as to how to keep the outside edges from cooking so fast or how to speed up the middles cooking?

    Thanks,
    Sheryl

  5. Hi there, I was wondering if I can use coconut sugar with this recipe? Or something else besides brown sugar? Thank you!

    1. Hi Karen, I haven’t tested this so I am not sure. If you do try it, please let me know how it turns out. Are you just looking for more of a chocolate cookie? If so, use my Gluten Free Brownie Cookies recipe and put the batter into a skillet. It is amazing!

      1. Thank you. I will try that. I try not to use all flour in recipes so it does not taste gluten free . I will try both recipes thanks

  6. This looks so decadent! The best pizookie I have ever seen! Whatever you want to call this recipe, I’m going to call it delicious!