Chocolate Chip Cookie Cups

Name: Chocolate Chip Cookie Cups
Prep time: 35 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 45 min
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

Rating: 5 stars

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This recipe came about as a total accident. When I was a teenager, I wanted to make chocolate chip cookies in mini muffin pans, but the centers sank in. In a pinch, I filled the centers with icing and voila! The cookie cup. My friends would beg me to make these every week.

By Brandi Rose

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Recipe Summary

prep:

35 mins

cook:

10 mins

total:

45 mins

Servings:

Yield:

40 cookie cups

Nutrition Info

Directions

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease 2 mini muffin pans.

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Step 2

Combine flour, baking soda, and salt in a small bowl.
Step 3

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.
Step 4

Drop rounded tablespoons of the dough into the prepared mini muffin cups.
Step 5

Bake in the preheated oven until edges are light golden brown, 9 to 12 minutes. Cool before removing from the pans.
Step 6

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.
Step 7

Fill the center of each cooled cookie cup with icing.