PEEPS^® Chocolate Cookie Cups

INSTRUCTIONS

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Chocolate Sugar Cookies

1. Cream butter and salt together in a stand mixer on medium speed for 30 seconds to incorporate the salt into the butter.
2. Add brown sugar and mix for 1 to 2 minutes. Scrape down the sides and mix for a moment to get the butter on the bottom of bowl, incorporated.
3. Add in egg and vanilla and mix together until incorporated.
4. In a separate bowl, whisk dry ingredients (flour, cocoa powder, and baking powder).
5. Add dry ingredients to your wet ingredients. Mix until a dough forms and it pulls away from the sides of the bowl.
6. Remove dough from bowl, wrap in plastic, and place in fridge for at least 15 minutes. If you flatten the dough, it gets colder quickly.
7. Preheat oven to 350°F.
8. Flour your surface and roll dough out to 1/4 inch thick. Cut your cookies into 3-inch round shapes.
9. Take a nonstick muffin pan or a mini muffin tin for smaller cups and place the cookie straight into the pan with the sides up so it will bake in a cup shape.
10. Bake for 10-11 minutes. Once baked, let sit for 2 minutes to firm up then flip over tin to allow the cookies to drop out. Transfer to a cooling rack so they can cool completely.
11. Once cooled completely, take a microplane and gently grate the bottom of the cup for a flat bottom and grate edges for a smooth edge.

PEEPS^® Marshmallow White Chocolate Cinnamon Ganache
Note: Makes 12 Tbsps, you’ll need to make two batches for the 24 cookie cups or 48 mini cups.

12. Microwave 10 PEEPS^® Pumpkins and 2 Tbsp heavy cream for 20 to 30 seconds in a microwave safe bowl. Use extreme caution when heating PEEPS^® Marshmallow; they may be hot. Handle with care.
13. Add in white chocolate chips, stir, and let the hot PEEPS^® Marshmallow Pumpkins and cream melt the chocolate.
    Add in cinnamon and stir.
14. Add PEEPS^® Marshmallow Ganache into a piping bag and pipe filling into cooled cookie cups and put in refrigerator for 20 minutes to firm up.

Decorate with buttercream using tips 10 and 21. Decorate the base with buttercream in orange, white and green by squeezing dollops of
buttercream. Then, top with PEEPS^® Marshmallow Pumpkins, Ghosts, and Monsters.

Allow 24 hours to let buttercream crust over before putting in a cellophane bag as a treat.