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    Stuffed Chocolate Cookie Cups

    Published: Jan 21, 2020 · Modified: Jul 10, 2025 by Karin and Ken · This post may contain affiliate links. Leave a Comment

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    Stuffed Chocolate Cookie Cups are filled with a creamy center surrounded by a wonderful chocolate cookie, decorated as you want. Perfect for any occasion!

    Stuffed Cookies

    Holiday Chocolate Stuffed Cookie Cups started out as an idea for Christmas and ended up being used for every holiday, or any excuse, that require cookies! Frankly every day is a day appropriate for making cookies, especially stuffed cookies and these are the best!

    Cookie Cup Recipes

    All kidding aside, we have made these cookie cups for birthdays, Christmas, New Years, Halloween, Valentines Day (with pink stuffing even though we were aiming for red) and St. Patrick's Day where yes, the stuffing was an incredible green color!

    Feel free to add more icing, if you desire. I have used another layer of icing below the decorative designs and found it to be a bit too much. Some of you will not and need to remember that that is always an option.

    I figure the cookie cups and stuffing are excellent and I bet you all can decide how best for each of you to decorate them! Besides icing you can sprinkle some icing or powdered sugar on top of each cookie cup, right out of the oven.

    Use sprinkles or sparkles or candies on top of the icing to brighten the cookies up! You are only limited by your imagination and I can't wait to hear how you decorate your cookie cups!

    Ingredients in Chocolate Stuffed Cookie Cups

    • flour
    • sugar
    • baking powder
    • baking soda
    • salt
    • cocoa powder
    • butter
    • vanilla
    • egg

    Stuffing

    • cream cheese
    • marshmallow creme
    • OR anything your heart desires and I have some other suggestions below, just in case you wanted some other ideas

    Decorations

    • Icing tubes
    • muffin tin liners

    How to make the Best Chocolate Stuffed Cookie Cups

    Prepare a muffin pan with 10 liners. I always prefer to use liners with this recipe, either silicone or paper, sometimes seasonally decorated. My best friend does not and I love her but don't understand it.

    I even love to use these silicone muffin pans. So easy to clean and they always look so clean too. Maybe it's just me but my pans look horrible after only a few uses, no matter what I do and it drives me crazy.

    Regardless, of what kind of pan you use these stuffed cookies will turn out beautifully. Set aside.

    In a large bowl combine flour, cocoa, salt, baking soda, and baking powder. Set aside.

    Using a handheld or stand mixer blend sugar and butter until creamy.

    Add egg and vanilla.

    Reduce your speed and add flour mixture until incorporated. Scrape down the sides of your bowl as needed.

    In a medium sized bowl combine marshmallow crème and cream cheese. We usually use our handheld mixer to whip the creams together! We leave this up to you.

    Taste the mixture. If you want to taste more cream cheese, add a little more or if you want more of a marshmallow taste, add more marshmallow. Set aside.

    Divide your dough into 10 piles and roll them into balls.

    Lightly flour your work surface.

    Press dough down into a flat circle or disc and press your thumb down into the center of the disc.

    Using a teaspoon place a tablespoon or so of the marshmallow mixture into the center of each disc and surround with the dough. Pinch edges to seal the marshmallow filling inside your ball.

    Roll until your ball is smooth and place in an individual muffin pan liner.

    Repeat until all of the dough is used.

    Bake for 15-20 minutes.

    The top of your cookie cups will still be a little shiny.

    Leave cookie cups to cool completely in your muffin pan and then transfer each cup on to a wire rack.

    Once cool you can spread icing on top of each of the cookie cups or just decorate them.

    We leave the decision up to you!

    Serve and enjoy!

    Stuffed Chocolate Cookie Cups

    Easy Stuffed Cookies

    The best part about making these easy stuffed cookies is that all you need is a muffin pan to make this cookies in a cup recipe. No special cookie cup molds, just a muffin pan and you will be so impressed by the result.

    The dough is so easy to work with, absolutely delicious and as you can imagine stuffed with anything you can think of. Imagine, walking down your local supermarket candy aisle and grabbing your favorite chocolate covered treat.

    If this creamy marshmallow stuffing isn't for you, I insist you try a caramel or a chocolate covered caramel. The results, if you are a caramel fan are out of this world. My best friend throws chocolate covered cherries inside and LOVES them.

    Think about what you think would taste great inside a perfect chocolate cookie and give it a try. I assure you that you will not be disappointed. That just isn't possible as far as I am concerned.

    I have stuffed these cookies with everything under the sun and I have liked some better than others but in every case the cookies were devoured. I just wouldn't stuff them like that again.

    For example, we or should I say I, stuffed these soft chocolate covered soft mint candies inside and found the mint to be too overwhelming and decided we wouldn't make them again. They weren't bad, just not what we were looking for.

    You will likely come across the same issue. My friend loves these Ferrero Rocher chocolates and that is the only thing she will stuff inside these cookies. You will find your favorite and might stick with it too! You never know.

    Best Chocolate Cookie Filling

    You have so many options when it comes to filling these incredible chocolate cookie cups. I tend to mix them up between a few personal favorites but use your imagination, so many things will work.

    Here are some of our regulars! If you find some other great ideas to stuff into these cookies please take a moment to let me know in the comment section below. The longer the list we have here the better!

    Marshmallow Cream Cheese

    is a blend of both marshmallow creme and cream cheese and is so tasty.

    Rolo Cookie Cups

    or chocolate covered caramels are so easy and too good for words.

    Turtle Cookie Cups

    are similar to a Rolo Cookie Cup in that you shove one right inside the cookie dough and bake.

    Nutella Cookie Cups

    are absolutely wonderful if you are a fan of the hazelnut spread.

    Ferrero Rocher Cups

    are the only thing my best friend will stuff hers with.

    Chocolate Filling for Cookies

    involve using a round chocolate treat or even a chocolate covered cherry inside.

    Cookie Cups for Ice Cream

    are also an option if the cookie is pressed into the sides of a muffin pan and baked.

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    Stuffed Chocolate Cookie Cups

    Karin and Ken
    Stuffed Chocolate Cookie Cups are filled with a creamy center surrounded by a wonderful chocolate cookie, decorated as you want. Perfect for any occasion!
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    Course Dessert
    Cuisine American

    Equipment

    • muffin pan, regular or silicone muffin pans
    • silicone or paper liners

    Ingredients
      

    • 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
    • 1 cup sugar
    • ½ teaspoon baking powder
    • ½ teaspoon baking soda
    • ½ teaspoon salt
    • ⅓ cup cocoa powder
    • ½ cup unsalted butter, room temperature
    • 1 teaspoon vanilla
    • 1 large egg
    • Icing optional
    • tubes of icing for decorating optional
    • muffin tin liners

    Stuffing

    • ½ brick (4 oz) cream cheese, softened adjust amount to taste
    • ½ cup marshmallow crème adjust amount to taste
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    Instructions
     

    • Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Prepare a muffin pan with 10 liners. Set aside.
    • Get out your ingredients and pick your stuffing. These cookies are terrific.
      Stuffed Chocolate Cookie Cups
    • In a large bowl combine flour, cocoa, salt, baking soda, and baking powder. Set aside.
      Stuffed Chocolate Cookie Cups
    • Using a handheld or stand mixer blend sugar and butter until creamy.
    • Add egg and vanilla.
    • Reduce speed and add flour mixture until incorporated. Scrape down the sides of your bowl as needed.
      Stuffed Chocolate Cookie Cups
    • In a medium sized bowl combine marshmallow crème and cream cheese. We usually use our handheld mixer to whip the creams together! We leave this up to you.
      Stuffed Chocolate Cookie Cups
    • Taste the mixture. If you want to taste more cream cheese, add a little more or if you want more of a marshmallow taste, add more marshmallow. Set aside.
    • Divide your dough into 10 piles and roll them into balls.
    • Lightly flour your work surface.
    • Press dough down into a flat circle or disc and press your thumb down into the center of the disc.
    • Using a tea spoon place a tablespoon or so of the marshmallow mixture into the center of each disc and surround with the dough.
      Stuffed Chocolate Cookie Cups
    • Pinch edges to seal the marshmallow filling inside your ball.
    • Roll until your ball is smooth and place in an individual muffin pan liner.
      Stuffed Chocolate Cookie Cups
    • Repeat until all of the dough is used.
    • Bake for 15-20 minutes.
    • The top of your cookie cups will still be a little shiny.
    • Leave cookie cups to cool completely in your muffin pan.
    • Then transfer each cup on to a wire rack.
      Stuffed Chocolate Cookie Cups
    • Once cool you can spread icing on top of each of the cookie cups or just decorate them. We leave the decision up to you!
      Stuffed Chocolate Cookie Cups
    • Serve and enjoy!

    Notes

    Other Stuffing Ideas

    Rolo Cookie Cups or chocolate covered caramels are so easy and too good for words.
    Turtle Cookie Cups are similar to a Rolo Cookie Cup in that you shove one right inside the cookie dough and bake.
    Nutella Cookie Cups are absolutely wonderful if you are a fan of the hazelnut spread.
    Chocolate Filling for Cookies involve using a round chocolate treat or even a chocolate covered cherry inside.
    Cookie Cups for Ice Cream are also an option if the cookie is pressed into the sides of a muffin pan and baked.
    Keyword best cookies, chocolate, cookie, cream, easy cookie, filling, stuffed
    Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!

     

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