These fun Reese’s peanut butter hot chocolate cookie cups combine sugar cookie cups with a peanut butter and chocolate filling, all while looking like the cutest hot chocolate cups!
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Then in a muffin tin spray each muffin tin with non stick cooking spray.
Seperate each of the pieces of the sugar cookie dough and place each one into each muffin tin. Create a crater by pushing the cookie dough into each tin using a thumb or tablespoon.
1 pack ready to bake sugar cookie dough
Place the cookies into the oven and bake for 13 minutes or until the cookie cups are golden brown. Cool to room temperature.
While the cookies are baking start to unwrap the Reese’s peanut butter cups. Cut the top of the hook off the mini candy cane off using a serrated knife. This will be used as the handle for the hot chocolate “mugs.”
24 Reese's peanut butter cups miniatures, 24 mini candy canes
After the cookies are done baking remove them from the oven and add a Reese’s peanut butter cup to the center of the cookies. Let the cookies cool then add a candy cane stick into the Reese’s peanut butter cup.
Place the cookies in the muffin tins into the freezer and let them cool for about ten minutes.
Melt the white chocolate in a microwave safe bowl in 30 second increments until melted.
1 cup white chocolate chips
Use the candy cane handles and dip the ends into the white chocolate and then stick the handle onto the side of the cookie cups vertically. Repeat this same step for all of the cookies until they all look like hot chocolate mugs. Let all the mugs dry for about ten minutes.
Pipe white frosting onto the rim of the mug and add your favoite holiday sprinkles on top.
1 tub white or vanilla frosting, holiday sprinkles
Notes
Make sure the cookie cups are completely cooled before you add the candy cane handles. If not, the white chocolate will melt rather than setting and your handles won’t stay.Store leftover hot chocolate cookies room temperature for up to five days in an airtight container.Add miniature marshmallows (or tiny marshmallows that are used in hot cocoa balls) on top of the hot cocoa cookie cups instead of whipped cream as an alternative topping if you don’t want to have to pipe the whipped topping on!