LOVE IN A COOKIE CUP

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These are a cup full o' love for sure. Imagine a homemade peanut butter cup with a hidden chocolate chip cookie inside. It's a yummy surprise! They're a creative homemade Valentine's Day dessert. Just decorate them with a little chocolate drizzle or some colored sprinkles.

Provided by donna morales @Donnald07

Categories Cookies

Number Of Ingredients 16

Ingredients

CHOCOLATE
1/2 cup(s) milk chocolate chips
1 tablespoon(s) Crisco shortening
1/4 teaspoon(s) cayenne pepper (optional) you add less or leave it out altogether
COOKIE
1/2 cup(s) butter flavored shortening
1/4 cup(s) sugar
1/2 cup(s) brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon(s) salt
1 1/8 cup(s) cake flour
1 - egg
1 cup(s) mini chocolate chips
PEANUT BUTTER FILLING
1/4 cup(s) butter
1/4 cup(s) creamy peanut butter
1/2 cup(s) powdered sugar

Steps:

Line mini cupcake pan with cupcake liners.
Melt the chocolate and Crisco together.
Add cayenne pepper and mix well.
With a small pastry brush, brush the insides of the cupcake liners with the chocolate. Make sure you cover the bottom and side well. Set aside to harden.
After chocolate is set, pull cups out and use the pan for your cookies.
Prepare the cookie dough by adding dough ingredients to a bowl. Mix on low for 10 seconds. Then turn the mixer to medium speed and mix for 20 to 30 seconds.
Fill the pan with liners again and spray inside of liners lightly with vegetable oil.
Put one tablespoon of cookie dough in each cup.
Bake at 350F for 15 minutes.
As soon as cookies come out of the oven, use the back of a tablespoon measuring spoon to press down firmly into the center of cookies to make a well.
Let cool completely.
Melt butter and peanut butter together. Mix well.
Add powdered sugar.
When cookies are completely cooled, peel liner from cookies and set the cookies into the chocolate cups.
Press about 1/2 tablespoon of peanut butter mixture inside well of the cookies. Do not overfill.
Using a small pastry brush, again brush the tops of the cookie cups with more chocolate so that it's completely enclosed. Put in the freezer for 2 hours.
Take out and remove the liner from the bottom of chocolate cups. Enjoy.
NOTE: These are so incredibly delicious. You won't be able to eat just one. When working with dipping chocolate I use a candle warmer. It works incredibly wonderful. It will never burn your chocolate or cause it to seize up at all. Don't have to use a stove or a microwave. Just set a bowl over the surface of the candle warmer and add what you want and stir off and on till completely melted. Takes maybe 3 to 4 minutes depending on how much you are wanting to melt. Stays at the perfect temp the whole while you are working with it. Make the peanut butter filling with the warmer also. It's amazing.