I'm the type of girl who eats the cookie to get to the icing. "Minimize the cookie, maximize the icing" is the way I look at it. I know some prefer the cookie, and that's okay, but I think everyone will agree that these Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Cookie Cups are delicious and a winning combo for everyone!
The cookie cups themselves are super easy to make. I just used a store-bought sugar cookie mix, followed the package directions for rolled cookies, then rolled balls and flattened them out inside a mini muffin tin. For this recipe, I also added a ½ teaspoon of cocoa powder. SO yummy and pretty simple, too!
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The cheesecake icing or cheesecake filling is rich and creamy and I just added the finished product to a sandwich bag, clipped off one corner, squeezed it in and added mini chocolate chips.
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I did find that these crisped up pretty quickly, so make sure to store in an airtight container and place an apple slice inside to make them moist!
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Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Cookie Cups
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Cookie Cups
These decadent peanut butter chocolate chip cheesecake cookie cups have a really long name, but are packed with delicious flavor!!
Ingredients
- one 17.5 oz package dry sugar cookie mix
- 3 tablespoon flour
- 1 stick butter, softened
- 1 egg (check your specific package to make sure)
- 1 tablespoon cocoa powder
- 8 oz cream cheese, softened
- 1 stick (½ cup) butter, softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- dash salt
- 1 cup peanut butter
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- ½ cup mini chocolate chips
Instructions
- Make cookie dough according to package directions. (My package said add one stick of softened butter, one egg) and 3 tablespoon flour.
- Add 1 tablespoon cocoa powder and mix well.
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Spray a mini muffin tin with spray oil.
- Roll out individual balls of dough, about 1-2 tablespoon of dough in each ball.
- Place one dough ball in each cavity of mini muffin tin.
- Press down on the ball and press out to make a cup.
- Cook for about 10 minutes and check for done-ness.
- Cook for another 5 minutes. If done, remove from oven.
- Dough will reform while cooking, so upon removing the cookie cups, use a round teaspoon to make indentions in cookie cups.
- While cookie cups are cooling, make the filling.
- Cream together cream cheese, butter, vanilla, and peanut butter.
- Slowly mix in powdered sugar.
- Fill a pastry bag or sandwich bag with icing, cut off a small corner, and fill each cooled cup with icing.
- Top with mini chocolate chips and enjoy!
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