This recipe was created entirely by chance. I tried to bake chocolate chip cookies in little muffin tins when I was a teenager, but the centers fell in. I quickly added frosting to the centers in a pinch, and presto! a cup of cookies. To prepare these every week, my friends would ask me.
| Prep Time: | 35 mins |
| Cook Time: | 10 mins |
| Total Time: | 45 mins |
| Servings: | 40 |
| Yield: | 40 cookie cups |
Ingredients
- 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup butter, softened
- ¾ cup white sugar
- ¾ cup packed brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs
- 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
- ½ cup shortening
- ½ cup butter, softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 4 cups confectioners’ sugar
- 2 tablespoons milk, or more as needed
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease 2 mini muffin pans.
- Combine flour, baking soda, and salt in a small bowl.
- Combine butter, white sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla extract in a large bowl; beat with an electric mixer until creamy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Gradually beat in the flour mixture. Stir in chocolate chips.
- Drop rounded tablespoons of the dough into the prepared mini muffin cups.
- Bake in the preheated oven until edges are light golden brown, 9 to 12 minutes. Cool before removing from the pans.
- Meanwhile, beat shortening, butter, and vanilla extract together with an electric mixer in a mixing bowl. Beat in confectioners’ sugar gradually, 1 cup at a time. Beat in milk until icing is smooth. Add a little more milk if icing is still dry.
- Fill the center of each cooled cookie cup with icing.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 231 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 31 g |
| Cholesterol | 28 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 2 g |
| Saturated Fat | 7 g |
| Sodium | 145 mg |
| Sugars | 24 g |
| Fat | 12 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
I prefer using Milk chocolate chips than semi-sweet chocolate. Otherwise great recipe.
This was a great recipe for me to use. I filled mine with no bake cheesecake and topped in caramel stripes
I did they last 5mins