April 20th, 2010

This creation was thought up after my Grandma watched the Pillsbury bake off winner win a million dollars for a “cookie cup”. I didn’t watch the show, but was introduced to the cookie cups when my Grandma brought over a tray of chocolate ice cream filled peanut butter cookie cups. That is one of those ideas that I’m like “why didn’t I think of that?!” I think my Grams was in the creative mood because I stopped by her house the next day and she had another dessert concoction sitting in her fridge, this time it was some sort of an oatmeal chocolate bar.
I then thought…..
How delicious would it be to combine both desserts? It would be like a cookie/bar/ice cream dessert.
Oh gosh, just when I’m trying to start eating healthy.

Well here they are: Peanut Butter Bar Ice Cream Cups

Ingredients: Peanut Butter Cookie dough (you can make your own or even try a different flavor. I used refrigerated Pillsbury cookie dough), quick cooking oats, brown sugar, chocolate chips and your choice of ice cream and toppings.

1 roll of cookie dough fills about 8 or so large muffin cups or 24 small ones.

It’s easiest to cut the cookie dough in equal pieces, than roll each piece in a ball and flatten in your hand. Then you form a cup in your preferred size of muffin tin.
As you can see… they don’t have to be pretty.

I then made a mixture of brown sugar and oats. No need to measure here. I’d say maybe 1 cup of each?

You then fill up the cups with a little of the oat mixture. I filled maybe 1/4 of the cup up, but next time I think I would fill it up 1/2 way.

Then comes the chocolate chips. You could even use white chocolate chips or I guess, whatever you want! Be creative like Grams

OK now is baking time. I suggest baking the cookie cups at a temperature lower than what the package says. This will make sure the cookie is baked throughout rather than a crispy shell. Bake until they look and feel done. They might be a little puffy, but you can take a spoon and flatten the sides down so it looks like a cup again.
Let them sit for awhile and then take them out, or you might have a dozen leaky cookie cups on your hands.

The minis would be adorable for a dinner party. Make a few different kinds: sugar, chocolate chip and peanut butter all with different ice cream flavors. Harden in the freezer before serving, so it doesn’t become a sloppy mess! Include the three different minis on the same plate and it would look gorgeous!