To be honest, our favourite kind of dessert is anything that we don’t have to share; it’s hard to play nice when the person across the table is eyeing out your pudding. Which is why we’re delighted by a new dessert trend appearing at cafés in Tasmania and Bangkok.

A photo posted by Honey Badger Dessert Cafe (@hbdessertcafe) on Jan 12, 2017 at 4:04pm PST

Dubbed the panookie, this dessert is basically your own personal cookie, baked into a mini pan and topped with ice cream, sauce, and all the trimmings. We trust it’s still slightly gooey inside. (If you’re into raw cookie dough, a café in New York is selling it in various flavours, served in tubs with spoons.)

The best part of the panookie? It’s big, it’s bad, and its all yours. No touchy.

There are a few variations on the theme worth investigating.

This Shades of Chocolate version, with a chocolate cookie, vanilla-bean white-chocolate sauce, chocolate and vanilla-bean ice cream, ganache, Oreo soil, chantilly cream, chocolate rocks and gems:

A photo posted by Cataract On Paterson (@cataract_on_paterson) on Jan 4, 2017 at 10:00pm PST

This panookie, with a red-velvet cookie base and topping of chocolate fudge sauce, cream-cheese icing, house-made meringues and chocolate ice cream:

A photo posted by Cataract On Paterson (@cataract_on_paterson) on Oct 28, 2016 at 12:22am PDT

Then behold this festive Grinch-inspired version made with green-coloured white-chocolate cookie dough, gingerbread-and-white-chocolate sauce, vanilla ice cream, peppermint meringues, candy floss, candy cane bark and peppermint snow:

A photo posted by Cataract On Paterson (@cataract_on_paterson) on Dec 12, 2016 at 11:44pm PST

Vegan? No problem. This café will do a dairy-free panookie for you on request:

A photo posted by Cataract On Paterson (@cataract_on_paterson) on Nov 21, 2016 at 9:26pm PST

Then there’s this Fluffy Bunny panookie, made with a white chocolate and mini-marshmallow dough, a marshmallow vanilla sauce, vanilla-bean ice cream and fairy floss:

A photo posted by Cataract On Paterson (@cataract_on_paterson) on Nov 17, 2016 at 11:40pm PST

It’s safe to say we’ll never say no to any dessert served in a pan.