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Guys, I don’t want to shatter any illusions you may have of me or anything, but I’m so totally lame. I mean, for real.
You have no idea the pressure I feel when someone that is not my close family comes over for dinner. I make a living sharing food on the internet. The expectations that I cook a fabulous meal are so high that it hurts. Seriously, I could have a full blown panic attack about it if I wasn’t so busy thinking and rethinking the menu.
Anyway, we had some friends over for dinner last weekend. I decided to go the easy route and make pasta. For real, how hard can pasta be? We had baked ziti, Chicken Alfredo, salad, and my very favorite garlic bread. So easy, I could do it with my eyes closed!
Obviously, I ruined all of it.
The fresh mozzarella that I put on top of the ziti got crunchy instead of melty. I mean, what? How is that even possible?
I decided to be lazy and didn’t butterfly the chicken breasts before cooking them so they took forever and I ended up pulling them halfway through cooking to hack them into ugly little chunks so they would finally cook and be free of deadly salmonella germs.
The salad was fine. But, you know…it came from a bag. Hard to screw up. Also, yes, I ripped open a bag of greens and dumped them in a bowl. Ooh, you wondrous food blogger, show me more of these fancy recipes you create!
The bread? It literally caught fire. There were actual, honest to God flames in my oven, you guys. That was the first time I’ve ever had something literally catch fire before, so I did what any rational food blogger would do. I slammed the oven shut, called to my husband, and then laughed like a lunatic. He managed to save the day while I screeched that windows needed to be open and the bread was on fire and oh, what a failure I am, and don’t worry, I’m not really a food blogger, I just play one on the internet.
Basically, my poor friends that came over for dinner are never coming back again. I scared them off. I shall remain friendless and sad for the rest of my days.
(Oh, and the dessert? It was chocolate chip cookies. The cookies that I served were overbaked by about a minute making them crispier than I like. The second batch…you know, the one I left on the cookie sheet and devoured after our friends left? They were utter perfection. Chewy and soft, just the way they should be.)
I swear, y’all. I can totally cook if there is no one around to eat the food. True story.
So, obviously I made these cookie cups that I’m sharing today when no one was around to make me nervous.
These are chunky little deep dish cookie cups. They’re full of oats which totally makes them health food. I mean, they’re basically granola, you guys.
I loaded these cookie cups up with chocolate chips, but peanut butter chips would be great, too! I baked these for 12 minutes exactly which left them slightly gooey in the center. Bake an extra minute if you’d like them more firm.
Browned Butter Oatmeal Cookie Cups
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon heavy cream milk works too!
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups quick cooking oats
- 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips I used milk, but any kind will work
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 12 cup muffin pan.
- In a small saucepan set over low heat, melt the butter. Continue cooking butter over low heat, whisking often, until the butter has turned a deep golden brown. Remove from the heat.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat together the melted butter and brown sugar. Beat in the cream, egg, and vanilla until well combined.
- In a small bowl, combine the oats, flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon.
- Slowly beat the dry ingredients into the wet until well combined.
- Stir in the chocolate chips.
- Scoop the dough out into the muffin tins. Fill each muffin tin nearly to the top.
- Bake for 12 minutes. Let cool for 15 minutes in the muffin tin before running a knife around the edges of the cookie cups and removing from the muffin tin.
- Store in an airtight container.
Maureen Anderson says
These were just awesome the first several times I made them. Last time, I used generic brown sugar and really used 1 “packed” cup of sugar which I think makes it too sweet. And the brown sugar had lost moisture content. So the batter was way too dry. Added almost 1/4 cup more to the already finished batter (minus the chips). It saved the cookies but they were really “granola cookies”…so dry! Anyways, the joke at my social event as related by another: I said: “Remember those cookies I brought to that other event? That’s not them”. Funny guy! Thanks, its a keeper!!
Maureen Anderson says
1/4 cup more butter
Karly says
Glad you enjoyed these! Granola cookies actually sound kinda good to me. Haha!
Deb says
Made these today for the kiddo’s breakfast tomorrow. It’s state testing week, they deserve yummy stuff before they go sit for hours! Thanks! I’ll be browsing the rest of your site!
jen says
These are seriously my favorite treat! I was just wondering if anyone knows what the calorie count is per serving?
Karly says
@jen,
Glad you like them! There are many calorie counters on the web that you can add the ingredients to and find the calculation that way. 🙂
Heather @ My Overflowing Cup says
I’d be willing to bet that you put more pressure on yourself than your guests ever would. 🙂 These look incredible. I love that you baked them in muffin tins. That way they are bigger, right? Anyway, I just ordered a 50 bag of oats so this is just the kind of recipe I need. Thanks! Pinning it now.
Stacey Lehwald says
Made these today, and put them in a mini muffin tin…and they were amazing!
Jen says
I seriously LOVE this recipie! I tried the browned butter the first go round and it was too much work for me. I’m impatient. Melted butter works great and they are delicious when they’re still warm. Yum!
Colleen Comeau-Edison says
You are too funny, I love reading all about your antidotes. And today looks like a good day for baking. I am going to try these and another recipe I found on Butter Baking. It also sounds delicious for Lindor Filled Chocolate Chip Cookies.
Karly says
@Colleen Comeau-Edison,
Enjoy your baking! 🙂
Barbara Skinner says
just so you know – there’s a typo in the recipe title – it says ‘cooke’ instead of ‘cookIe’
Karly says
@Barbara Skinner,
Thanks! Just fixed it. 🙂
Yue says
They are soft, and yummy! So dangerous! I’m not sure if I should press them down after I put the dough into the tins.
But mine didn’t look as cute as those on your pics. You are so awesome!
Can’t wait for tomorrow morning, to taste them when they are totally cooled.
Karly says
@Yue,
So glad you liked them! I didn’t push them down myself, but I wouldn’t think it would matter either way. I believe mine fell in the center because I underbaked them just a bit. 😉
Shannon says
I made these as directed in the recipe, but didn’t realize I used old fashioned oats. But they were awesome! Tonight, I tried a few different things. I made 6 different kinds (3 batches) and used the quick oats. I used all dark brown sugar (just wanted to see how it would taste) and I decreased the chips by 1/2 cup per batch.
I made:
chocolate chip
peanut butter chip
peanut butter chip/chocolate chip
chocolate chip/raisin
peanut butter chip/raisin
peanut butter chip/chocolate chip/raisin
peanut butter chip/chocolate chip/raisin/pecan
I did everything else as directed in the recipe, and they looked good when they came out of the oven, but then they fell. They really resembled a cup at that point. They still taste good, but any idea what would cause them to fall? They look very unappealing. The first batch I made with old fashioned oats was more dense, also.
Karly says
@Shannon,
So glad you liked these! My guess for the falling is that they weren’t quite done enough to hold up. I prefer them a bit gooey and will sacrifice the looks, but if you want them to look prettier, you’ll probably need to bake them a minute or two longer.
That’s just my best guess, though. It’s hard to say without being right there with you! 🙂
Abby says
These look delicious! What if we don’t have the paddle attachment for the stand mixer, can we use the regular one and will they turn out the same?
Thanks!! Love your recipes – I’m in charge of dessert for Thanksgiving so I want more than just pumpkin pie. 🙂
Chris says
I would love to make these in mini muffin pans for bite size snacks! Have you have ever tried this? Wondering how long to bake?
Ala says
Heh! Don’t worry, it happens to the best (and worst–ahem, me) of us. At least you didn’t try throwing water onto an oil fire…I was *this close* to doing it the one time–i.e. basically the first time I ever really used the kitchen–when I was ambitiously frying ice cream and the electric stove caught fire. Uh. So. Basically you can tell your hubby you rock for not being me 🙂 I’d still come over for dinner, y’know, if *you’re* not scared of my pyro trends…
Vanessa says
I’ll admit, yes I did laugh because I could totally see that happening to me. Oh my gosh! I had no idea it was THAT kind of dinner party! When you mentioned it the other night, I knew that I just had to make time to go and read about the delicious dishes you created – I would have never imagined it ended up being such a *real* dinner. 🙂 Nice to know that we all have moments like that.
Karly says
You’ll have to come next time, Vanessa! Unless now you’re too scared? 😉
Jocelyn @BruCrew Life says
Ok, I won’t even try to lie that I wasn’t laughing at your dinner mishap…yup, full on laughing going on over here. But really it’s just because that is exactly the kind of stuff that happens to me when I cook. It’s why I leave all the cooking to my hubby…his food always turns out, even when we have company! And stress of getting things right is why I gave up making cakes for other people…it made me a nervous wreck. I much prefer making food in my home alone and then blogging about it to my virtual friends. Although I’m with Aimee…I totally want to come over for dinner and then watch you get flustered 😉