Peppermint Cheesecake Chocolate Cookie Cups

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These adorable Peppermint Cheesecake Chocolate Cookie Cups are sweet chocolate sugar cookie cups filled with peppermint cheesecake and topped with chopped candy cane Kisses. They are absolutely perfect for your Christmas party, holiday office party or neighborhood cookie swap. They come together fairly quickly and freeze well. I pack all my cookies in doubled Ziploc freezer bags and place them in sturdy glad-ware containers. When defrosting take them out of the containers frozen and place on serving trays or platters uncovered. Never allow them to defrost in the plastic and the containers. The condensation that builds in there will ruin the cookies.
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Ingredients

  • Chocolate Sugar Cookie Cups
  • 1 cup flour
  • 1/4 cup cocoa
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • Cheesecake Filling
  • 1 box (8 ounces) cream cheese
  • 2 tablespoons sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract
  • Optional: 8 drops red food coloring
  • Topping
  • Finely chopped peppermint kisses

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In small bowl mix flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt.
In separate bowl using mixer cream butter and 3/4 cup of sugar until fluffy; approximately 3 minutes. Add egg and mix on low just until incorporated.
Slowly beat dry ingredients into butter/sugar/egg mixture; scraping side of bowl and beater. Roll into 3/4 inch balls and roll in a little sugar. Place in MINI muffin pan. Using rounded 1 1/2 measuring teaspoon press in center of them to create cups. Dipping the spoon in sugar between each indent helps to keep the spoon from sticking.
Bake 11-13 minutes. Remove from oven and using same rounded spoon go back through the cups and push each back down. You do not need sugar this time.
In small bowl using mixer blend cream cheese and sugar until smooth. Add peppermint extract and food coloring; blend until the color is uniform. Pipe or spoon in cooled cookie cups.
Top with crushed peppermint kisses.

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