Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Cookie Cups

Yum! I needed a dessert to make for dinner the other night and came across these! They required a mini muffin pan, which I have been wanting for some time now, so I went out and luckily found one and got to baking! I got this recipe from one of my current favorite blogs- The Crunchy Mamacita


Snickerdoodle cups
1 cup butter
1 1/2 cups white sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 3/4 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 Tbs cinnamon
1 tsp cream of tartar
1/4 tsp salt
3 Tbs white sugar
2 tsp cinnamon

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Grease mini muffin pan.

In a large bowl, combine butter and sugar. Mix in eggs one at a time blending well after each. Add vanilla and mix. In another bowl, stir together flour, baking soda, 1 Tbs cinnamon, cram of tartar, and salt. Gradually add to the wet mixture. 

Combine the 3 Tbs sugar and 2 tsp cinnamon in a small bowl. Shape the dough into walnut sized balls and roll in the cinnamon sugar mixture. Place dough balls in the mini muffin pan.

Bake for 8-10 minutes. Let cool for one minute then take a 1 tsp measuring spoon and make an indention in each cookie. Let cool in pan for 5 more minutes before transferring the cookie to a wire rack to cool completely.

Pumpkin Cream Cheese Icing
4 oz cream cheese
1/3 cup canned pumpkin puree
4 cups powdered sugar
1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
1/4 tsp ground ginger
1/8 tsp ground cloves

Mix cream cheese and pumpkin until smooth and creamy. Gradually add powdered sugar and spices. Mix well. Pipe onto cookie cups and get ready to have your sweet tooth fulfilled!

These delicious treats didn't last long around here!! They will be made again!

2 comments:

BE said...

Those look yummy! Do they taste very pumpkiny? I'm not sure if my kids would like it if the pumpkin flavor was strong. Although we all love snickerdoodles, so maybe they would.

Liz said...

those look DELISH.