Every Halloween, my kids come home from Trick or Treating with way too much candy. After my husband and I have taken our customary "quality check" and eaten all of the peanut butter cups, they still have an enormous amount. A couple of years ago, I decided that I was going to do something with all of this candy so that they wouldn't eat it and I wouldn't just waste it by throwing it out. So, I decided to create cookie cups.
What is a cookie cup, you ask? Well, the answer is simple. It's a cookie shaped like a cup. You can bake things into it or once it's baked add stuff in. Calories could range anywhere from 100-1,000,000 depending on what you put in them, but they are darn good! I love using Snickers bars in these.
In the cookie cup recipe below, I am using a chocolate chip cookie dough as the base. There are some minor changes to the dough that need to be made. For example, reduce the flour a little bit to 2 1/4 cups and use mini chocolate chips.
If you want to try to be a bit healthier with this recipe, you can omit the mini chocolate chips from the cookie dough. It will save you a few calories.
Here's what you will need:
- 1 batch of cookie dough
- 24 mini Snickers Fun Size Candy bars (you could use full size bars cut into 6 pieces or the mini square ones too)
- 1 batch of chocolate buttercream
Here's what you need to do:
1. Heat your oven to 350 F. Grab your mini muffin/cupcake pan and spray each cup with PAM for Baking or grease and flour.
2. After you have prepared your cookie dough, using a cookie scoop or melon baller to put dough in each cup of the pan. Press the dough into the cup, around the edges. If your dough is really sticky (which it shouldn't be super sticky, but a little sticky), you can use a food service glove or dip your finger in flour to keep the dough from sticking to you.
3. Bake at 350 F for 8-12 minutes (depending on oven). The cookies should be a nice golden brown when they are done.
4. Once out of the oven, put a piece of Snickers into each cup. Let cool for a few minutes, then flip these bad boys onto a cooling rack within a couple of minutes or take them out one at a time if you have no nerves left in your finger tips from touching hot baked goods all the time like me.
5. Once they are cooled completely, top with a nice swirl of chocolate buttercream.
Share these with family and friends. They will be Ooohing and Aaahing at how good these are.
You can bake the Snickers right into the cookie cup, but the chocolate will melt and you may end up with barely anything in your cookie cup. Other candy bars may work really well too, but I've limited myself to Snickers (my favorite candy bar).
If you decide to use Snickers, please make sure you tell people that these contain peanuts because you never know who has a food allergy. These are also full of gluten, sugar, eggs, dairy, and probably soy (because soy is in like everything now).
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