The Best Thing Ever (or as Betty Crocker calls them, Buckeye Delights)

Cookie Base:

1 bag sugar cookie mix
1/3 cup unsweetened baking cocoa
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 egg

Filling:

1/2 cup powdered sugar
1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
2 tablespoons butter, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 teaspoon salt

Topping:

1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
1 cup plus 2 tablespoons semisweet chocolate chips
1 tablespoon creamy peanut butter

Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Line 36 mini muffin cups with foil liners. In large bowl, stir cookie base ingredients until it forms a dough. Press 1 tablespoon of dough into each cup and make a divot with your fingers or a tart tamper in the center (you will be putting filling in the divot later). Bake 8-9 minutes or until puffy and just set. Cool completely or about 30 minutes.

In small bowl, mix ingredients for filling until well blended. Press about 1 teaspoon of this mixture into the center of each cookie.

In saucepan, heat heavy whipping cream just to boiling over low heat, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat and stir in 1 cup of the chocolate chips. You may have to return to heat for them to all melt. Refrigerate until cooled, about 30 minutes. Spread about 2 teaspoons chocolate mixture over each cookie cup.

Place remaining 2 tablespoons chocolate chips and 1 tablespoon peanut butter in small bowl. Microwave on high until softened and stir to mix well. Drizzle over cookie cups with fork or knife. Refrigerate about 30 minutes until set. Store covered in fridge.


Comments: Sweet Baby Jesus, these are evil! But so very worth the 5648465468 steps you'll have to climb to burn one of them off. Also, if you get like me and think you're going to be cool and use the Mexican vanilla that's in your mom's cupboard, you're going to completely change the taste of these things. Not for the worse, mind you--just...different. The first time I made them I used a regular sized muffin pan (as I don't own a mini one) and they turned out just fine--I ended up with about 24 instead of 36. I don't have a tamper, either, so I used my fingers.