Snickers Chocolate Cookie Cups

By srumbel

The chocolate cookie used in this recipe is one of my favorites. Soft and chewy without being undercooked. And the dough is so easy to mix together.

Once you’ve got the dough made, you bake it in a mini cupcake tin to make the cookie cups. After they come out of the oven, add the mini Snickers. They’ll melt right into the cookie – gooey and delicious!
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Ingredients

• for the cookie cups:
• 3/4 cups butter
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1/4 cup milk
• 1 egg
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 1/2 cups flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 cup cocoa
• 1 tsp cornstarch
• 48 mini snickers bars
• for the icing and caramel:
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1/4 cup shortening
• 2 cups powdered sugar
• 1/8 cup cocoa
• 1/8 cup peanut butter
• 1-2 tbsp water
• caramel sauce (i used this one)

Preparation

Step 1

cream butter and sugars together until light and fluffy, 3-4 minutes.
add milk, egg and vanilla extract and mix until well combined.
add dry ingredients and mix thoroughly. dough will be thick.
grease a mini muffin tin.
make balls of about 2 large tsp in size and press into the bottom of each mini muffin cup. press the center down just a bit to make an indention, where you'll add the mini snickers later. you want each cup to only be about 3/4 full.
bake at 350 degrees for 8-9 minutes.
remove from oven (the centers may look a little undone, but they will cook more as they sit) and press mini snickers into the center of the cookie cups.
allow to cool for 3-4 minutes in the muffin tin. the mini snickers will start to melt.
remove cookies to a cooling rack to finish cooling.
to make the icing, beat the butter and shortening together until smooth.
add the powdered sugar to the butter mixture, one cup at a time, and mix until smooth.
add peanut butter and cocoa and mix until smooth.
add 1-2 tbsp of water until the icing is the right consistency.
top the cookie cups with the icing, then a little bit of caramel sauce.