Caramel Cookie Cups!
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Sweet & delicious chocolate chip and caramel cookie cups! Perfect with a scoop of ice cream, and an extra caramel drizzle!
Caramel cookie cups
Cookies? Love them. Cookie bars? Love them. Cookie cups? Oh my actual days I LOVE them. Honestly, they are life changing little cups of beauty. And, here is the recipe for these ones… caramel cookie cups!
So! I’ve had this blog for nearly five years now, and I have posted cookie related recipes since the beginning… some of my favourites being my Terry’s chocolate orange cookies, and my Mini Egg cookie bars!
Anyway… request after request after request later… here is my first cookie cup post. Yeah, I apologise that it’s taken nearly five years, and a lot of badgering, but it’s happened now! And my god… you’re going to love it.
Recipe
For this recipe, it basically is just the same as my cookie bars, because why would you mess with something that isn’t broken. The only difference, is the tin you bake them into. For this, instead of making the regular 16 pieces from a cookie bar, I made 12!
Tin
I used your standard cupcake/muffin tin. It’s quite easy – spray the with a little cake release spray, and shove that cookie dough in. It really is THAT simple! You can of course line each of the cups, but I found it far too much effort. Each to their own though!
Dough
The dough itself is easy enough to make – I just use a mixer with the beater attachment, and create the wonderful dough. The wonderful thing about using more flour than usual, and the cornflour, means you don’t have to chill the dough!
Chocolate
For the chocolate, I use the finely chopped chocolate! If you use a chocolate bar that you have chopped up, or chocolate chips… you need to make sure that you chop them up quite finely. Where you are shaping the dough somewhat, you need small bits of chocolate!
Caramel
For the caramel centre… it was easy. Carnations caramel. Because of the size of these being regular cupcake size, I used a slightly heaped teaspoon of caramel! You can however use sweets such as Rolos instead if you wanted – notes below! If you wanted to make mini versions – simply use one frozen Rolo per cup! SO easy.
Seal
You just have to make sure when you are sealing all the cookie dough together, that you don’t leave any gaps for the caramel to seep out! If it gets out, you may get a sticky mess everywhereeee. It is easy enough once you get the hang of it though!
Serve
These beauties really are very simple, but so so so so SO delicious! I love them. They’re so good as they are, drizzled with extra caramel, or with ice cream. Or even more. Indulgent, and DELICIOUS.
Caramel Cookie Cups!
Ingredients
- 275 g plain flour
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp cornflour
- 115 g unsalted butter
- 55 g granulated sugar
- 135 g light brown sugar
- 1 medium egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 200 g finely chopped chocolate
- 12 heaped tsps Carnations caramel
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 180C/160C Fan and grease and lightly flour a 12 hole cupcake/muffin tin.
- Whisk/Mix the plain flour, bicarbonate, salt and cornflour together so its evenly distributed – leave to the side.
- In a larger bowl, melt the butter. Add in the two sugars, and whisk for about 2 minutes so the sugar starts to dissolve and the mixture is smooth.
- Add in the egg and the vanilla, and whisk again briefly until smooth. (I used an electric whisk)
- Add in the dry ingredients and the finely chopped chocolate and mix with a spatula until a thick cookie dough is formed.
- Take out 240g worth of dough and leave to the side. Split the rest of the dough evenly between the 12 cups - I used a 5cm cookie scoop.
- Using the end of a floured rolling pin/pie mould/etc press each ball of dough into the cup and create a hole in the middle.
- Repeat with all 12 cups!
- Add in the caramel, I use a heaped teaspoon per cookie cup - don't over fill the hole with caramel though.
- Split the 240g into 20g each, flatten, and add on top of each cup and press down slightly to seal!
- Bake in the oven for 12-14 minutes - leave to cool fully in the tin as they're easier to get out!
Notes
- These beauties are best served warm, but as you have used a caramel such as Carnations caramel, it will stay soft even when the cookies have cooled.
- You do NOT want to over-fill the cookie cups, otherwise it will be an exploded mess.
- I use Carnations caramel, but any thick caramel sauce will do - if you don't want to use caramel sauce however, you can freeze caramel sweets such as Rolos and use those! I would use two Rolos per cup.
- These will last for 3-4 days once made!
- You can make them a chocolate cookie mix by taking out 25g of flour and 1/2tbsp of cornflour and using 25g of cocoa powder!
- I really WOULD use the cornflour.
- I use a 5cm cookie scoop to evenly distribute my cookie dough!
- I also use a pie moulder to make the shape for the cookies to sit in!
- I use one of these trays for the cookie cups!
ENJOY!
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Hi, could you use homemade caramel? If so, have you got a recipe you would suggest – can’t get the carnation caramel anywhere at the moment! Thankyou 🙂
Yes you could! There’s one on my blog – search Homemade Caramel Sauce!
My tops totally sunk into the caramel cavity so they didn’t look very good (as in gaping holes) but they tasted amazing anyway! Thanks for yet another amazing recipe
Oh no aha!! At least it’s perfect for a scoop of ice cream! X
When you say light brown sugar in your recipes do you mean soft light brown sugar or golden caster sugar?
Light brown soft sugar/light brown sugar are the same!
Can I skip adding the chocolate chips in the cookie cups dough? and instead of caramel, i change it to nutella.
The chocolate helps with the moisture of the cookie cups, but if you don’t want it and rather it plain then yes – and yes to nutella!
Can you freeze these (either the cookie dough or once baked) ? Thanks! 🙂
I would say yes to either – however, because of how you have to structure it for the caramel, it’s probably easier to freeze them baked!
I’ve not made these yet but was wondering if you could put kinder choc inside? x
Yes you definitely can, it just won’t be a gooey centre!
Could you bake these using silicone or paper cake cases or would they be impossible to remove?
I would definitely say it’s worth a go – but they would definitely have to be completely cooled and you’d have to be gentle!
I might put some Manilife peanut butter in them, amazing recipe!
Fantastic recipe .
I didn’t have any chocolate bars, so smashed up a few easter eggs. I made my own caramel for the centre using another recipe of yours. The kids loved them 😋
Can I use self raising flour instead of plain?
You can, but the texture will change and they will probably rise and then sink more than usual!
Hands down the best thing I’ve baked 😍 would Nutella work inside then the same as carnations? & would it be best to freeze first (like your Nutella stuffed cookies) I want to make more but maybe with different fillings!
Yes you could use Nutella!
Can these be frozen .thank you
Can these be baked as empty cups? Minus the filling and top? Thanks!
Have just eaten two of these! I didn’t have any seeping caramel, but mine weren’t very robust so it was difficult removing them. I think my error was that I spread the dough all the way up my muffin tin holes – this meant there was too much of a gap inside so they started to collapse a little – oops! Should’ve read the recipe more closely! Still yummy though and fun to make 🙂
These taste amazing!
I tried making these and they came out pretty good. The only problem 8 had was the tops collapsed in on themselves. Any idea how to prevent this?
They do sink a little naturally – but it’s not a fault – it’s the place for the icecream to go!
What is the purpose of the cornflour/why do you use it in this recipe?
I use it in lots of cookie recipes. It’s there for a reason. It changes the texture, helps the cookie to bake, and stops it spreading in general cookie terms. It’s important.