Buckeye Delights (Cookie Mix)
Prize-Winning Recipe 2008! Try an easy-mix cousin to the classic Buckeye candy, a delightfully rich chocolate and peanut butter cookie.
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- Serves: 36 persons
Ingredients
- 1(1 pound 1.5 ounce) pouch Betty Crocker® sugar cookie mix
- ⅓cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- ½cup butter or margarine, softened
- 1egg
- ½cup powdered sugar
- ½cup peanut butter
- 2tablespoons butter or margarine, softened
- 1teaspoon vanilla
- ¼teaspoon salt
- ½cup whipping cream
- 1cup semisweet chocolate chips
- 2tablespoons semisweet chocolate chips
- 1tablespoon peanut butter
Instructions
Step 1
Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Line 36 mini muffin cups with mini foil candy cups (about 1 1/4 inch). In large bowl, stir cookie base ingredients until dough forms. Press about 1 tablespoon dough into each foil cup. Bake 8 to 9 minutes or until puffy and set. Cool completely, about 30 minutes. Remove from pan.Step 2
In small bowl, mix filling ingredients until well blended. Press about 1 teaspoon mixture on top of each cooled cookie.Step 3
In 1-quart saucepan, heat whipping cream just to boiling over low heat, stirring occasionally; remove from heat. Stir in 1 cup of the chocolate chips. Refrigerate about 30 minutes or until cooled. Spread about 2 teaspoons chocolate mixture over each cookie cup.Step 4
Place remaining 2 tablespoons chocolate chips and 1 tablespoon peanut butter in resealable food-storage plastic bag; seal bag. Microwave on High 30 to 60 seconds or until softened; knead to mix. Cut off small tip from one corner of bag. Squeeze bag to drizzle chocolate mixture over each cookie cup. Refrigerate about 30 minutes or until set. Store covered in refrigerator.