Introducing Cookie Butter Cups.
A new spin on one of my favorite cookies, the Inside Out Peanut Butter Cup Cookie just got a visit from our friends in the UK with a big jar of Biscoff Cookie Butter.
These cookies have a taste similar to gingerbread, but then again not really.
It’s actually a hard taste to describe other than delicious!
I guess because Cookie Butter is in fact made from Biscoff cookies, so we are essentially putting cookies into more cookies!
There is a slight cinnamon taste to them, but perhaps the molasses in the brown sugar is really
bringing out a gingerbread taste to me?
You decide for yourself and let me know what you think!
Filled with more cookie butter and then a small amount of chocolate (of course! LOL)
I then used these little cups as a garnish for my latest vegan cheesecake recipe~ The Biscoff Cookie Butter Cheesecake! Yummmm!
So be sure to check that out, but first to make these little cookies, they are so cute and whimsical but also quite addicting.
One word of advice though, try not to eat all the Cookie Butter out of the jar with a spoon before you have a chance to make this recipe!
Umm, yeah… that happened.
Oh by the way I used a mini muffin pan to bake the cookies, if you don’t have one you can’t really make the cups, but you can always just forgo the filling and make flattened out Cookie Butter Cookies instead like I did here
- Solid Vegetable Shortening ¾ cup (170g)
- Biscoff Cookie Butter ½ cup (130g)
- Light Brown Sugar packed 1¼ cup (260g)
- Oat Milk (or any milk of your choice) 3 Tablespoons (45ml)
- Vanilla Extract 2 teaspoons (10ml)
- Flax Meal 1 Tablespoon (8g)
- Hot Water 3 Tablespoons (45ml)
- All Purpose Flour 1¾ cup (218g)
- Baking Soda ¾ teaspoon
- Salt ½ teaspoon
- Biscoff Cookie Butter for filling cups 1 cup
- Vegan Chocolate for filling 1 cup *optional
- Combine the hot water with the flax meal and let it stand to thicken about 5-10 minutes
- Cream the shortening, cookie butter and brown sugar until well blended, no need for light and fluffy here~ about 2 minutes on high speed.
- Add the flax paste and blend well.
- Add the flour baking soda and salt all at once and mix to combine.
- Add the milk and vanilla extract last and mix just until it all comes together
- Chill dough for about 15 minutes while you preheat the oven to 350°F
- Prepare the mini muffin tin with a light spray of pan grease
- With a #100 Scoop drop rounded scoops into each cavity.
- Press the dough with your fingers so it spreads to the sides of each cavity
- Bake for 8 - 10 minutes until they are done
- Allow to cool in the tins slightly then unmold onto a cooling rack
- Once the cookies are cooled~ fill the sunken centers with cookie butter and a spot of chocolate on each
Hi Gretchen, can’t wait to try these out.
I know you’ve told us the conversion before, but if we DO want to use eggs, how many eggs would this recipe need? (1 T flax meal+water=1 egg??)
Thanks!!
Yes that is correct
Thanks! Going to make these tonight for the weekend!
I had my first ever Gretchen-recipe fail!!! Never happened before, and I’ve been making your recipes for years.
Could it have been the egg swap? I followed the rest of the directions precisely. The cups were just incredibly soft, couldn’t even get them out of the muffin tins, they completely crumbled. Egg is a binder, right? Should I have used two? That was disappointing :(.
(Also, side point, the #100 scoop is tiny – is it possible that different brands are different sizes? I thought scoops were standard sizes. But the #100 barely covered the bottom of the mini muffin pans.)
That’s weird, coz I did it (and sssshhhh I forgot the milk, and as didn’t have flax meal, so I used apple sauce) and it went out amazing and sooo yummm. I just filled my mini muffins pan about 3/4, and no problem at all!!
Thank you Gretchen for this recipe, anyway it’s not a recipe for diet, not because of the calories but the number of cups u can eat without having enough ?!
Is it possible to not press down the cookie base in the muffin pan before baking, instead press them after baking with the end of a rolling pin?
Yes that would be fine too
Is there any chance of substituting vegan spread, like Flora (in case you know it) for the vegan shortening? I could only find Crisco and it has palm oil, which I work very hard to avoid. Thanks!
Hey there, I am not familiar with Flora, but I hear you on the palm oil & shortening in general. Unfortunately even the vegan butter has palm oil – Earth Balance claims to be “sustainable” but what does that really mean? LOL
AND from a health perspective too?? It would be worth a try! Let me know if you do!
I made cookies and they were a mess. I used a bigger scoop – I think they were too big. The batter tasted great!