Peanut Butter Apple or Pumpkin Cookie Cups

Peanut Butter Apple or Pumpkin Cookie Cups

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Makes about 31 cookie cups

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*Mini Cupcake/Muffin Pan

*1 tablespoon Cookie Scoop

*Cooking Spray

*1 (12 ounce) Red Candy Melts, Wilton (you will have extra) Apple

*1 (12 ounce) Orange Candy Melts, Wilton (you will have extra) Pumpkin

*11 ounce package Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, unwrapped

*M & M Minis, green for leaves (I bought 10.10 ounce package but you could use smaller size)

*M & M’s, Brown for Stems (Family Size 19.2 ounce) you will have extras
Cookie Cups
*1 (21 ounce) Package Peanut Butter Cookie Mix, Betty Crocker

*2 tablespoons Extra Light Olive Oil

*3 tablespoons Water

*1 Egg

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Combine in a mixing bowl the cookie mix, oil, water and egg, mix until combined.

 

Scoop cookie dough into cupcake/muffin pan with small cups and press slightly in the center of each dough ball into a cup shape.

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Bake in a pre-heated oven at 375*F. and bake cookie cups for 7-8 minutes.

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Remove from the oven and press a peanut butter cup in the center of each cookie cup. Then top each with red or orange candy wafers. Allow wafers to melt and then add to the top of  each wafer the (apple or pumpkin) stem and leaf.  Repeat for each cookie cup.

Also see Red and Green Apple Party

 

Enjoy!

Lindy

 

M and M Apple Chocolate Bites

M & M Apple Chocolate Bites

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*Red Candy Wafer Melts

*M & M’s, Red (6 to 7 per apple), Brown (1 per apple), apple and stem

*Pecan Pie M & M’s (1 per apple), Cream for apple seed center

*Mini M & M’s, green (1 per apple) for leaf

*Pretzels Sticks, stem

*Black Food Marker, draw 3 seeds per apple

*Silpat or Parchment Paper

*Baking Sheet

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Pre-heat the oven 275*F. melt wafers for 5-6 minutes.

 

On a Silpat covered baking sheet. Place 9 to 12 red wafers. (It’s easiest to work with small batches) Melt in oven.

 

Add to the semi-melted red wafer “Apple top” the M & M’s, brown for the stem first then the green leaf (both M & M’s on their side). Add 6 to 7 red M&M’s, one to the center of red wafer (or add cream seed M & M) and then the red remaining to the edges of the red wafer. Repeat for each Apple.

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Allow apples to set before removing from Silpat or parchment paper.

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Eat and enjoy! or use on top of frosted cookies, cupcakes and etc…

Enjoy!

Lindy