Snicker Bites

 

Recipe adapated from lifeloveandsugar.com

 

Ingredients:

Cookie cups:

• 3/4 cups butter
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1/4 cup milk
• 1 egg
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 1/2 cups flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 cup cocoa
• 1 tsp cornstarch
• 48 mini Snickers bars

Icing:

• 1/4 cup butter
• 1/4 cup shortening
• 2 cups powdered sugar
• 1/8 cup cocoa
• 1/8 cup peanut butter
• 1-2 tbsp water

Instructions:

• Cream butter and sugars together until light and fluffy, 3-4 minutes.
• Add milk, egg and vanilla extract and mix until well combined.
• Add dry ingredients and mix thoroughly. 

•  Grease a mini muffin tin.

• Make small dough balls and press into the bottom of each mini muffin cup. Press the center down just a bit to make an indention, where you'll add the mini snickers later. You want each cup to only be about 3/4 full.

Bake at 350 degrees for 6-7 minutes. Remove from oven and press mini snickers into the center of the cookie cups.

Allow to cool for 3-4 minutes in the muffin tin.  Remove cookies to a cooling rack to finish cooling.


To make the icing:
Beat the butter and shortening together until smooth.
Add the powdered sugar to the butter mixture, one cup at a time, and mix until smooth.
Add peanut butter and cocoa and mix until smooth.
Add 1-2 tbsp of water until the icing is the right consistency.

To make caramel sauce:

1 cup sugar
6 Tablespoons salted butter, cut up into 6 pieces
1/2 cup heavy cream
1 teaspoon salt

• Heat sugar in a medium saucepan over medium heat, stirring constantly.
• Sugar will form clumps and eventually melt into a thick brown, amber-colored liquid as you continue to stir. Be careful not to burn.
• Once sugar is completely melted, immediately add the butter. Be careful in this step because the caramel will bubble rapidly when the butter is added.
• Stir the butter into the caramel until it is completely melted, about 2-3 minutes.
• Very slowly, drizzle in 1/2 cup of heavy cream. Since the heavy cream is colder than the caramel, the mixture will rapidly bubble and/or splatter when added.
• Allow the mixture to boil for 1 minute. It will rise in the pan as it boils.
• Remove from heat and stir in 1 teaspoon of salt. Allow to cool down before using.

 Top the cookie cups with the icing, then a little bit of caramel sauce.