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chocolate cookie cups with peanut butter mousse

Peanut Butter Chocolate Cookie Cups

Mini chocolate cookie cups filled with luscious peanut butter mousse and topped with a Reese's peanut butter cup.
5 from 3 votes
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Cooling Time 45 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Course Dessert: Cookies
Cuisine American
Servings 36 cookie cups
Calories 111 kcal

Ingredients
  

Cookie Dough:

  • ½ cup butter softened to room temperature
  • ½ cup sugar
  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 ⅓ cups all purpose flour
  • ¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • ½ tsp baking soda
  • ¼ tsp baking powder
  • ½ tsp salt

Peanut Butter Mousse

  • 1 cup whipping cream
  • 6 Tbsp creamy peanut butter
  • 6 Tbsp powdered sugar
  • 18 mini Reese's peanut butter cups halved

Instructions
 

  • Spray mini muffin cups with non stick cooking spray; set aside. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  • Beat butter, sugar, and brown sugar in a mixing bowl till creamy. Beat in egg and vanilla.
  • In a small bowl, whisk together (or sift) flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Stir into wet ingredients just till all flour is moistened.
  • Roll dough into 36 balls and place in prepared muffin pans.
  • Bake at 350° for 9-10 minutes.
  • While cookie cups are still hot, use the back of a round measuring spoon to make an indentation in each cup.
  • Let cool for 5-10 minutes in pans, then remove to cooling racks to cool completely.
  • After cookie cups are cool, prepare filling. Beat the cream with a hand mixer till stiff peaks form. Set aside.
  • In another bowl, beat together the peanut butter and powdered sugar till smooth. Gradually fold in the whipped cream.
  • Pipe peanut butter mousse into cookie cups and top each with half of a peanut butter cup.
  • Serve immediately, or chill for up to an hour.

Notes

If you prefer, you can just spoon the filling into the cups. Not quite as pretty, but they still taste great!

Nutrition

Serving: 1gCalories: 111kcalCarbohydrates: 12gProtein: 2gFat: 7gSaturated Fat: 4gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 0.1gCholesterol: 19mgSodium: 89mgPotassium: 44mgFiber: 0.5gSugar: 8gVitamin A: 183IUVitamin C: 0.04mgCalcium: 13mgIron: 0.4mg
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