Molten Lava Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

Ingredients

1 roll Pillsbury refrigerated chocolate chip cookies OR
Use cookie recipe below
9 teaspoons semisweet chocolate chips
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Ice Cream
Chocolate- flavored syrup

Preparation

Step 1

1. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Spray 9 regular size muffin cups with cooking spray. Remove cookie dough from wrapper. Spoon 1 tablespoon dough into each muffin cup. With fingers press dough to flatten in cups.
Place 1 tablespoon chocolate chips on top of dough in each cup. Place additional tablespoon dough over chips in each cup. Press light to flatten.

2. Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until tops are golden brown. Cool in an about 10 minutes. Remove warm cookies from muffin cups. Top each with ice cream and chocolate syrup.

OR

Any cookie dough will work, but here's the recipe I used:

THE ULTIMATE CHEWY AND SOFT CHOCOLATE CHUNK COOKIES

1 cup unsalted butter at room temp
1 cup tightly packed light brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 large eggs
1 1/2 tsps. pure vanilla extract
3 cups plus 2 tbsp. all-purpose flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
16 oz. flavorful bitter or semi-sweet chocolate, coarsely chopped (I used a 1 oz square of bitter sweet chocolate, a 4 oz bar of bitter sweet chocolate and about 10 oz of semi sweet chocolate chips)

INSTRUCTIONS
1. Preheat oven to 350 F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper, or lightly butter them, and set aside. In the bowl of an electric mixer, or stand mixer fitted with paddle attachment, or a large bowl if mixing by hand, cream the butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well and scraping down the sides of the bowl after each addition. Beat in the vanilla.

2. Sift the flour, baking soda and salt together in a small bowl. Add the dry ingredients to the butter-sugar mixture, and mix until just combined. Fold in the chocolate chunks. Follow recipe above at this point.
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I found this recipe from Amanda's Cookin' blog, which she posted recently from the latest Cookie Carnival recipes. These cookies are good and full of chocolate chunks. I used 8 oz. chopped Dove Dark Chocolates and 8 oz. semi sweet chocolate chips. The cookies are not the chewy kind, but have a perfect crispness on the outside and are soft, but not cakey inside. I sprayed small ramekins lightly with cooking spray, then covered the bottom of each with cookie dough. Then I put a Dove Dark Chocolate in the middle and covered it with more dough, sealing it on all sides. Do I say YUM to much? Too bad. Yum!