Hot Chocolate Cookie Cups #Christmas #Cookies

Hot Chocolate Cookie Cups are festive Christmas cookies! Sugar cookie cups full of fudge, mini marshmallows & sprinkles. Love the candy cane cope with!

Ingredients

• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup softened butter
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 1/3 cup sour cream
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1/2 tsp. baking soda
• 2 cups flour
• 2 TBSP holiday sprinkles
• Fudge Filling:
• 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 1 14 ounce can sweetened condensed milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• You'll also need:
• 24 mini candy canes
• tiny marshmallows*
• 1 TBSP white chocolate chips melted

Instructions

1. Making the cookie cups: Preheat the oven to 350 stages F. Spray a mini muffin tin with cooking spray.
2. With a hand mixer, cream collectively sugar and butter. upload egg and vanilla. In separate bowl, combine bitter cream, salt and soda. add flour and bitter cream to butter combination, beat till easy. add 2-three TBSP holiday sprinkles and mix simply until mixed. Scoop dough out the use of a 2 TBSP cookie scoop and placed one in every mini muffin cup. No need to roll the dough to make it easy- it'll all bake the identical.
3. Bake cookies for 15-18 mins, making sure they’re no longer getting too brown at the end. {If they are, pull them out.}
4. right after you are taking them out, use a small measuring spoon to push into the center of each cookie cup, growing a space for the fudge filling to go. You don’t need to push thru the cookie absolutely- but make certain you create a massive enough space.
5. permit cool inside the pan for 10-15 minutes, then lightly run a thin knife along the sides to pop them out. in case you greased the pan nicely, you shouldn’t have any problems right here!
6. To make the fudge filling: integrate the chocolate chips and sweetened condensed milk in a microwave safe bowl. blend lightly and microwave on excessive for 1-2 mins. i have a powerful microwave, so mine best took 1 minute. The aggregate doesn’t look melted, but give it a few gentle stirs and you’ll see it’s heated nicely sufficient. upload vanilla and stir once more until clean.
7. switch approximately 3/four the fudge right into a quart-sized ziplock bag. Squeeze the fudge into a nook and snip the corner off. Now you could easily pipe the fudge into the cookies! The first rate element approximately this fudge too is that it units up first rate rapid, so feel loose to fill the cookies nicely, so that the fudge is going above the cookie- it'll installation and now not run out!
8. if your fudge gets too strong, just pop it lower back within the microwave for 10-15 seconds.
9. To assemble the cookies: cut the rounded component off the candy canes and cling them to the aspect of each cookie cup with melted white chocolate. that is genuinely real smooth- simply positioned white chocolate on the reduce part of the sweet cane, press it to the facet of the cookie cup, then set it down on the counter until white chocolate is strong. After approximately a minute, the candy cane cope with is nicely attached to the cookie cup!
10. Fill every cookie cup with fudge. place several tiny marshmallows on top. let cool.
11. keep cookies in an hermetic field on the countertop, or within the refrigerator for up to at least one week.
12. *The tiny marshmallows may be located next to the hot chocolate. My grocery shops now not deliver the separate packing containers of them, so I purchase the "Marshmallow lovers" warm chocolate packets. within the container the new chocolate and tiny marshmallows are in separate envelopes. you may want approximately 2 envelopes for this recipe.