My Quest to find the Perfect Combination of Black and White April 10, 2009
Posted by Dorothy in chocolate, cookies.Tags: BJ's, chocolate, cookies and cream, cookies and cream cookie, oreo cookie, oreos, pizookie
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I am on a baking quest!
Cookies and Cream Cookies
One of my favorite chain restaurant desserts is the delicious Cookies and Cream Pizookie from BJ’s Restaurant & Brewery. I love BJ’s (I think they make the best pizza that has ever come out of a chain restaurant kitchen) because not only do they have the best pizza, they even have pizookies! “Pizookie” (pizza + cookie) is a registered trademark of of BJ’s Restaurant, and is a wonderful dessert consisting of fresh baked cookie in a deep dish pizza pan, served right out of the oven and topped with vanilla bean ice-cream and whipped cream. The Cookies and Cream Pizookie (by far my favorite pizookie) consists of a cookies and cream cookie base, topped with vanilla bean ice-cream, and swirled off with cookies and cream whipped cream. YUM!
BJ's Cookies and Cream Pizookie
My quest is to find the perfect combination of black and white, and re-create that perfect Cookies and Cream cookie from BJ’s. I don’t want to make a pizookie; I want to find that cookie dough and make perfect cookies and cream cookies! I’m going to start by trying different recipes that combine cookie dough with crushed Oreos – cookie and cream cookies! Here is my first try, adapted from this Cookie Madness recipe. These cookies were definitely good, but not as cookies and cream-y as I wanted. They were also slightly more cakey than I wanted.
Cookies and Cream Cookies
6 Tbsp butter
6 Tbsp granlated sugar
6 Tbsp brown sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 c all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp cream of tarter
pinch of salt
10 broken/slightly crushed Oreo cookies
2 1/2 Tbsp mini chocolate chips
Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Beat butter and sugars until smooth. Add vanilla and eggs and mix until combined.
In a separate bowl, stir together flour, soda, salt, baking powder and cream of tartar. Add flour mixture to butter mixture and stir until incorporated. Fold in Oreos and chocolate chips.
Shape the dough in to 1 1/2 tsp size balls. Place dough balls on parchment lined or non-stick cookie sheet and flatten tops slightly – I didn’t do this and my cookies came out quite fat. Bake for about 10 minutes or until brown around the edges. Cool slightly on cookie sheet for about 5 minutes, then transfer to a rack to set: remove from baking sheet. Cool on wire rack. Makes about 18 cookies.
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ookies and cream cookies sound great!
Cookies and cream is my favorite ice cream flavor, so I’m in love with these! Here’s another recipe I saw on Jenny’s blog: http://www.picky-palate.com/2008/07/meet-chocolate-chip-oreo-cookie.html
There’s more butter and flour in them, so they may be less cakey. Can’t wait to read about your perfected version
Oops – I was signed in under my hubby’s account above!!
That’s my favorite pizookie at BJ’s too!
What a noble quest
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I’m afraid I’ve never ordered the pizzookie from BJ’s, but I think your mission to make an excellent cookies and cream cookie is a good one.
About the cookies, did you scoop your flour or pack it? Those cookie should be thick, but yours look a little too thick — like maybe they have too much flour. They shouldn’t be cakey either. Then again, I haven’t made that particular cookie in a while. I do remember it as a really good one so I should probably put the gram amounts next to the flour so people will be able to measure ingredients more accurately.
The hard boiled egg cookie might make a good cookies & cream dough. Hmmmm. I’d be able to offer up better advice if I’d tried a pizookie.
Me again. I just had a crazy idea. What if you tried the old pudding cookie recipe (this one on allrecipes.com is reliable), but instead of using vanilla pudding mix, use Jell-O’s Cookies & Cream flavored pudding mix.
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Award-Winning-Soft-Chocolate-Chip-Cookies/Detail.aspx
That is a crazy cool picture of all the cookies staked on each other.
These cookies are climbing the ladder of success!
I fully support you on this quest. I can’t wait to try these cookies and cream cookies! They look absolutely fabulous. Thick, chewy, wonderful! What a great idea!
i, like elyse, am behind you 100%. this is gonna be awesome.
I was the biggest fan of cookies and cream when I was little! Then I became allergic to chocolate. Sigh.
As far as books/ series, do you like YA/ Fantasy/ Chick Lit/ Mysteries?
Ok, try these:
Elizabeth Peters- Naked Once More, Die for Love (Funny Mysteries)
Linda Howard- Drop Dead Gorgeous,To Die For (Murder Mysteries but the main character is so freaking funny you’ll giggle.)
Shannon Hale–Austenland, Princess Academy, Goose Girl
Madeline L’Engle– A Ring of Endless Light, Many Waters.
Louise Bagshawe–Sparkles, The Devil you Know, Career Girls
Those are some of my favorites! Let me know what you think!
wow so this really IS a dessert blog! and you really DO have a lot of blog buddies AHHHA! i dont really fit into your list though since my blog has nothing to do with desserts -_- seeing this makes me want to go out and buy something sweet to eat :[
you’re pictures are really good quality, you took all those yourself with a regular camera?
it was good seeing you finally today! (even though it was only for like..20 minutes.. come hang out with us again!)
p.s. -make me something dessert next time!
and you know another Elyse!! spelled exactly the same way!!
im not special anymore :[
Even though they weren’t the ones you were looking for, they still look freakin delicious!
Mmmmm yummy!
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