Chelsea Lupkin

Picture this: It's movie night at your friend Tom's house. You're laughing (or maybe screaming, depending on the movie) with your best buds, having a grand time, when you realize Tom is gone. Suddenly you get a whiff of something sweet. \"YAY! Tom made cookies!!!\" you think. But Tom doesn't come back with a warm tray of chocolate chip cookies. What he dramatically places on the the coffee table is SO. MUCH. BETTER: A Gigantic chocolate chip cookie loaded with ice cream, caramel and chocolate syrup. Tom's the best.

Chelsea Lupkin

The pure joy you get from digging into a warm skillet full of cookie cannot be matched. When everyone dives in with spoons, the cracked cookie surface is strangely beautiful. It looks like an earthquake hit the chocolate chip confection and you'll just want to stare. Then the full force of the intoxicating aroma hits and you finally take a bite of the warm and gooey chocolate mess. That bite, with a little bit of cold vanilla ice cream, may be the closest to nirvana you'll ever get.

Chelsea Lupkin

Not only is the skillet cookie way more fun than the traditional Toll House kind, it's also easier! Forget scooping evenly-sized cookie dough balls, cutting parchment or turning the pans halfway through. All of these are annoying steps in baking that we think we need to deal with—wrong! Just mix your dough and dump it into one skillet. You can use any chewy cookie recipe, but chocolate chip always wins. Always! Be the hero of the party and make it yourself.

Chelsea Lupkin

Original article and pictures take http://www.delish.com/cooking/videos/a49642/chocolate-chip-skillet-cookie-video/ site