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Boston Cream Cookie Cups

Posted on March 18, 2017 by Ruthanne

These adorable cookie cups are filled with white chocolate pudding, and topped with rich chocolate and buttercream.

A perfect mini-dessert!

Let’s hear it for Boston Cream Pie! I’m not sure why they call it pie when it is so obviously cake… but that aside, it is wonderful! I love little bite-size mini desserts, and I’ve wanted to create a Boston cream pie one for some time. These turned out exactly like I wanted them to. Beautiful, bite-sized, and delicious! 🙂

Plus we use refrigerated cookie dough and instant pudding- so these are easy to make!

Here’s how we made these little guys (printable recipe here)

INGREDIENTS: (makes 48 cookie cups)

One tube of refrigerated sugar cookie dough
1 box (3.3 oz.) of instant Jell-O brand white chocolate pudding (plus milk to make according to box)
2 sticks of butter (divided)
1 cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 cup of powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
Red Sixlets candy or sprinkles

DIRECTIONS:

Preheat oven to 350F degrees and liberally spray a mini muffin tin with cooking spray.
Roll cookie dough into 48 small balls (about 1 heaping teaspoon in size)
Place balls into mini muffin cups and bake for 8-10 minutes.
Use a tart shaper or a wooden spoon to press centers of baked cookie into a cup.

Cool just slightly and then run a small knife around edges to free cup from tin. Cool completely.
Make pudding according to box and place into a large zip-top bag. Clip a corner and pipe evenly into all 48 cups.
Melt 1 stick of butter and chocolate chips in a microwave in 30-second increments, stirring until smooth.
Spoon into a zip-top bag, clip a corner and pipe over top of pudding.

Allow chocolate to harden.
Place stick of butter, powdered sugar and vanilla into a mixing bowl and beat on high until light and fluffy.
Spoon into a small zip-top bag that has been fitted with a decorating tip, and pipe a dollop of icing on top of each cookie cup.
Top with a Sixlet candy and ENJOY!!!

My thoughts: These are so yummy. A little extra work to make them into little mini-desserts, but aren’t they cute??? I love the cookie flavor with the filling and chocolate- it adds a different taste than your usual Boston Cream Pie 🙂 One note: make these just a day or so before serving them, as the pudding tends to make the cookie cups a little soggy after sitting a few days. Hope you get a chance to try these! ~r

Other fun mini-desserts here on Easybaked (click on a photo to see the recipe):

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Boston Cream Pie Cupcakes

Posted on July 8, 2015 by Ruthanne

Filled with cream and topped with rich chocolate, these cupcakes capture all the delicious flavor of a Boston Cream Pie in a single-serving form! Easy and soooo yummy!

I’ve never understood why they call it a pie, when it is SO obviously a cake, but Boston Cream Pie is one of my favorite desserts. There’s something about that filling that makes it so moist and flavorful!

These little creations are as easy as can be because they use a cake mix and instant pudding. Easy and delicious!!

Here’s how we made them: (printable recipe)

INGREDIENTS:

One boxed yellow cake mix (plus water, oil and eggs to make according to package)
One packet of Jell-O White Chocolate Instant Pudding (plus milk to make according to package)
One cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips
6 Tablespoons of butter
Cool Whip, or Butter Cream frosting (1 stick of (softened)butter with 3/4 cups of powdered sugar and 1 teaspoon of vanilla)
24 red Sixlets candies (as desired for decoration)

DIRECTIONS:

Make cake mix according to package and divide into 24 cupcake liners placed in tins. Bake according to package, and cool.
Make pudding according to package and spoon into a large zip-top bag. Refrigerate until use.
Make chocolate sauce by melting chocolate chips and butter together in the microwave in 30 second increments, stirring between, until melted and smooth.
If you are making butter cream for the top (this gives you a swirl on top that is more firm for transporting than Cool Whip): Beat together the butter cream ingredients until they are light and fluffy.
Place either Cool Whip or butter cream in a zip-top bag fitted with a decorative tip.
To assemble: use a cupcake corer (or a knife) to remove a core out of the center of each cooled cupcake.
Cut the tip off the bag containing the pudding and pipe a dollop of pudding into the center of each cupcake.

Trim the “core” a little bit (makes room for the pudding) and place the top of the core back on, covering the pudding with cake.
Carefully spoon the warm chocolate over the top of each cupcake, gently pushing it toward the sides, but not over the sides.
Allow chocolate to cool. It will firm up.
Once it is completely cool, pipe Cool Whip or butter cream in a little swirl on top.
Decorate using sixlets (or any other sprinkles or decorations you like!)
Enjoy!

My thoughts: These really are delicious… I try to only “taste” my treats and give the rest away, but you better believe I finished this little cupcake…with a cup of coffee. Yum! I hope you get a chance to try them too! ~r

Here are some other fun uses for pudding! Click on a photo to see the recipe.

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Frosty Fall Pudding Treats

Posted on October 27, 2013 by Ruthanne

Who says you can’t do frozen treats for Halloween?? These yummy little frosty pudding cups have a Golden Oreo crust and are decorated like fun candy corn treats!

I’m back with a recipe in my Chicago Metallic Mini Cheesecake Pan.
For those of you who haven’t gotten one of these yet, they are SO much fun. I’ve done some of my favorite desserts in this little pan. You can do this particular dessert in cupcake liners placed in muffin tins, but they are just SO cute in the mini cheesecake pan.

Here’s how the pan works: You get a pan that looks just like a muffin tin but each cup has a hole in the bottom. You also get 12 little metal disks that fit perfectly in each cup, covering up that hole. You make, bake, freeze, etc. your dessert and then just push up through that hole in the bottom and the disk pushes out with your little dessert on top. I love fun individual desserts, so this is pretty much the perfect idea, in my opinion!

These are really easy, but they need to freeze for several hours/overnight, so make them ahead.

Here’s the recipe: (printable version)

INGREDIENTS:

One package of Golden Oreos
1 package (4 servings, 3.3 oz.) of Jell-O Instant White Chocolate Pudding
1 1/2 cups of cold milk
1 (8 oz.) container of Cool-Whip topping (thawed in refrigerator)
Food colorings in yellow and orange
Fall sprinkles

DIRECTIONS:

Crush about 2/3 package of Golden Oreos in a food processor or large food chopper.
Add orange food coloring until desired shade of orange is reached and mix on high until cookie bits and color are well combined.
Place metal disks into cheesecake pan and spoon cookie crumbs evenly into all 12 wells of mini- cheesecake pan (or cupcake liners), and press firmly into bottom (I use a Mini Tart Shaper– and I love it!)
In a large mixing bowl, mix cold milk with pudding for 2 minutes.
Add yellow food coloring to get desired shade and mix until well combined.
Fold in 1/2 of the Cool Whip (the rest will be used as topping- keep it refrigerated until use)
Spoon pudding mixture into a large zip-top bag (and zip it tight).
Cut a corner of the bag off and pipe pudding mixture into each cup, all the way to the top.
Use a knife to smooth the tops flat and cover entire pan with plastic wrap.
Freeze until serving (at least a few hours)
Before serving, remove pan from freezer and allow it to warm up a little bit before popping desserts out.
Press a finger up through the hole in the bottom of the pan, pushing each dessert up- grab it by the crust and take metal disk off the bottom.
Serve immediately, or place in a sealed container back in the freezer until ready to serve.
Pipe remaining Cool Whip on top of each little dessert cup and decorate as desired.
Enjoy!!

My thoughts: There are two things that make a dessert perfect in my mind. Taste and the amount of smiles that happen when you serve them. These are really yummy (how can you go wrong with pudding and Oreos???) and the number of smiles….? Well, you are just going to have to make them to see that for yourself! Enjoy!! ~R