This post may contain affiliate links. Please read our disclosure policy.
Writing a blog post while watching the Oscars Red Carpet is really distracting and pretty counterproductive. I’m staring at unbelievable fashion with these gorgeous celebrities and I doubt they ate anything all day, let alone any dessert.
If we played the Oscars Red Carpet game right now: “oh hello! who are you wearing?” my response would be, “hi! I’m wearing Victoria’s Secret. They have pretty comfy yoga pants.” Haha, truth.
Okay, so these cookie cups stirred up a flurry of conversation on my Facebook page when I posted a pic after I made them last month. Just a FYI to everyone reading this now – I get a LOT of the same questions on my Facebook page whenever I post pics of what I’m making. The questions are always, “recipe?” Well, hopefully this will clear everything up: I make everything 1 – 1.5 months in advance for my blog. So whatever you see that I’m currently making, likely won’t appear on the blog for another 3-4 weeks. Yes, I work that far in advance.
I loved these cookie cups. They’re much more fun to eat than regular cookies and I loved the oozing Nutella that was sitting in the middle. You’ll love these – now how many of you are going to make them today?
Nutella Lava Cookie Cups
Equipment
Ingredients
- ½ cup (114 g) unsalted butter, softened
- ½ cup (110 g) dark brown sugar, packed
- ½ cup (100 g) granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- ½ tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 ¾ cups (219 g) all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup (180 g) semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 cup (300 g) Nutella, melted/softened
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 °F (177 °C). Spray a standard size muffin pan with cooking spray and set aside.
- In a large bowl, add flours, baking soda, and salt. Whisk to combine. Set aside.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream together butter and sugars for 2 minutes until light and fluffy. Then add in the egg and vanilla extract and beat for 2 more minutes.
- Slowly add in the flour mixture and mix until all combined and well-incorporated.
- Using a spatula, fold in the chocolate chips.
- Place Nutella in a microwave-safe bowl and warm up the Nutella in 30 second intervals in the microwave until you achieve a smooth and runny consistency that is easy to spoon out.
- Using a medium cookie dough scoop, scoop out 1.5 – 2 tbsp. of cookie dough, flatten it to the bottom of the muffin tin. Repeat with the dough until all 10 of the muffin tin bottoms are lined with cookie dough.
- Take a tbsp. of the warmed up Nutella and place in the middle of the dough that’s in the muffin tin. Then, take the remaining cookie dough and cover the Nutella layer. You don’t have to push it down hard, it’ll make the Nutella ooze. Just a gentle tap will do.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes, until the edges are brown. Immediately run a paring knife around the cookie cups when they come out of the oven so you can loosen them for easy removal later.
- Cool completely before removing them and eating :)
- Top with vanilla ice cream for a sinfully delicious treat!
hi. can a mini muffin pan be used in this recipe? or it should be the regular cupcake/muffin pan?
thanks
You could use a mini muffin pan but you’ll have a bunch of cookie cup :) that could be a good or bad thing! haha
i dont have vanilla extract
Great recipe, but I don’t use vanilla, it is too sweet for my taste.
Your recipe is amazing! I always get tons of compliments when I make it
Hi I don’t have vanilla now can I replace it.
You can just omit it.
I made this recipe using mini cups and they turned out great. I found them a little sweet. Could I leave out the chocolate chips?
Yes, definitely.
I found this recipe and made them today for Christmas tomorrow! So excited to share with my friends and family, they’re absolutely delicious!
I’m so glad it worked out and you were able to share them with everyone on Christmas!
This recipe is a favorite in my house!! One cup of Granola is also a great substitute for the chocolate chips if you are looking to cut out some of the calories. Still very yummy and has more of a breakfast muffin taste.
Great idea!
I just made these and they look amazing! Im super excited to eat these delicious treats but, I was looking through the instructions and it doesn’t show where to put in the egg and vanilla extract. I figured it out, but others might have difficulty figuring it out. Editing that in would help out others a lot. Thank you :)
Hi Madison! I’m glad you enjoyed it. If you re-read the instructions, in step number 3, it says exactly where to put the egg and vanilla extract: In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream together butter and sugars for 2 minutes until light and fluffy. Then add in the egg and vanilla extract and beat for 2 more minutes.
Omg my gosh I completely missed that! I’m sorry I bothered you with it haha.
I baked these for my boyfriend since he’s crazy for Nutella and boy oh boy did he LOVE em. There were some leftovers and I gave some to my friends and family. They absolutely adored them and some don’t even like Nutella. Very fun recipe and very good. The texture is awesome and it isn’t that sweet, it’s just right!
Yay! So awesome to hear :)