Confession time, I have a slight Pinterest obsession. I can easily spend an hour scrolling through recipes on pinterest. Recently I found Like Mother Like Daughter’s Candy Bar Pie recipe and I knew I wanted to try to replicate the recipe as mini pie cups. My adaptation entails: shortbread cookie crust, pre-made cookie dough, Trader Joe’s caramel sauce, M&M’s, Kit Kat Bar pieces and Reese’s peanut butter cup pieces. The final product ended up exactly as I imagined and this is a mini cup recipe I know will become part of my regular dessert rotation. I hope you enjoy this recipe as much I do!
Candy Bar Cups – Serving Size: 6 mini cookie cups
INGREDIENTS –
Shortbread Crust Dough, adapted from this recipe
1/2 cup (1 stick) salted butter (I only had unsalted butter so i just added 1/4 teaspoon of salt to my butter), softened
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup confectioner’s sugar
1/4 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup pre-made chocolate chip cookie dough
Trader Joe’s caramel sauce
3 tablespoons M&M candies
3 tablespoons kit kat bar, broken into bite size pieces
3 tablespoons Reese’s peanut butter cup, broken into bite size pieces
RECIPE –
1. Preheat oven to 350º F
2. Mix together butter, flour and confectioner’s sugar in a medium size bowl to make shortbread cookie dough and form into a ball shape.
3. Grease 6 cavities of a mini muffin tin (I like to use spray vegetable oil to grease the pan
4. Put 1.5 heaping tablespoons of shortbread cookie dough into each of the 6 mini muffin cavities. Form dough in each cavity into a cup shape
5. Add caramel sauce to center of each cup
6. Put 1 tablespoon of pre-made cookie dough on top of the caramel sauce
7. Add assortment of candies into cookie dough
8. Bake for 12-15 minutes or until golden brown
9. Let cool for around 15 minutes and then enjoy warm!