Name: Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cups
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 25 min
Ingredients: 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter (room temperature); 3/4 cup packed light brown sugar; 3/4 Tbsp vanilla extract; 1/4 tsp salt; 3/4 cup all-purpose flour ((see notes for heat-treating recommendation)); 2 Tbp whole milk; 1/4 cup mini chocolate chips; 12 oz. dark chocolate (roughly chopped)

Whether you need a quick and easy dessert or you're just craving raw cookie dough and chocolate (who isn't??), these Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cups are the perfect treat!

Head-on view of a chocolate-covered chocolate chip cookie dough cup cut in half on a yellow plate with bowl of cookie dough with sprinkles in the background and recipe title at top.

I think it's officially that time of day where you need to break for a little treat. Am I right?

And what better way to treat yourself than with cookie dough? I'll tell you what's better- cookie dough coated in chocolate!

These chocolate chip cookie dough cups are easy to make with just a few simple steps and perfect for rewarding yourself mid-day, bringing to parties, or late night snacking.

🍫 How to make chocolate chip cookie dough cups

One of the reasons they say it's not good to eat raw cookie dough is because of the eggs. The other, lesser known reason, is because of the raw flour.

Leave the eggs out of cookie dough and bake your flour before mixing and you're totally good to go.

Heat Treating Flour

To heat treat flour, all you have to do is briefly bake it! Just spread flour on a baking sheet and bake at 350 degrees for about 5 minutes. Let cool before using in cookie dough.

To make the cookie dough cups, just cream together butter and brown sugar in the bowl of a stand mixer or in a large bowl with a hand mixer until light and fluffy.

Mix in vanilla and salt.

And slowly beat in heat-treated flour, until combined. Stir in milk.

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And fold in mini chocolate chips. Refrigerate the edible cookie dough for at least one hour.

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Yes, these truffles are really just chocolate chip cookie dough balls covered in more chocolate.

When you're ready to turn the cookie dough into cookie dough cups, line a mini muffin tin with mini cupcake liners.

Form 12 small balls with cookie dough. It's OK if you have some leftover... save it for snacking!

Heat dark chocolate in a saucepan set over another saucepan of simmering water (or use a double boiler). Stir until chocolate is melted.

Spoon enough of the melted chocolate into the each cupcake liner to cover the bottom of it. And set a cookie dough ball into center of each liner.

Pour chocolate over cookie dough balls to completely cover. And pop the pan in the fridge for about 30 minutes to let the chocolate set.

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And the chocolate chip cookie dough cups are ready for enjoying!

The perfect pop-into-your-mouth treat.

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The hardest part it not just giving in and eating the cookie dough with a spoon. But you can do a little bit of that, too.

Pretty little baking cups make these even more fun and potentially festive. I love these little flowered baking cups!

For real, there is not much better than a cookie dough you have full permission to eat... And covered in chocolate, at that.

With the holidays coming up, I can pretty much guarantee your friends and family would love to get a little chocolate chip cookie dough cup gift package.

They make for a really great food gift! Or if you're attending any holiday parties, these make the perfect bring-along treat.

And since they take barely any time to make, you'll have more time to go shopping, sing Christmas carols, wrap gifts, or you know... Sleep.

Landscape closeup view of a chocolate-covered chocolate chip cookie dough cup on a yellow plate.

And with that, your afternoon treat break is complete.

If you love these cookie dough cups, check out my recipes for Lemon Cookie Dough Bars and Red Velvet Ice Cream with Cookie Dough. I also love these Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Cups from The Sweetest Teaspoon.

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