Chocolate Chip Cookie Cups

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.

• Preparation Time: 35 mins
• Cooking Time: 10 mins
• Total Time: 45 mins
• Calories: 231 Calories

Ingredients

• ½ cup butter, softened
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
• ½ cup shortening
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup butter, softened
• 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
• ¾ cup white sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• ¾ cup packed brown sugar
• 4 cups confectioners' sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 2 tablespoons milk, or more as needed

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

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

Step 2

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

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.