Description
These quick and easy chocolate cookie cups cook in your air fryer in just 8 minutes! Using cake mix as the base, they create perfect edible vessels for ice cream, pudding, mousse, or fresh fruit.
Ingredients
2 cups chocolate cake mix (about ⅔ of a 15.25 oz box)
⅓ cup vegetable oil
2 large eggs
½ cup chocolate chips
Cooking spray for the molds
Optional: ¼ cup mini M&Ms
Optional: ¼ cup chopped nuts
Optional: ¼ cup white chocolate chips
Optional: 2 tablespoons sprinkles
Optional: ½ teaspoon cinnamon or espresso powder
Instructions
Lightly spray oven-safe ramekins, silicone muffin cups, or jumbo muffin tins with cooking spray
Preheat your air fryer to 330°F (165°C) for about 3 minutes.
In a medium bowl, combine the cake mix, oil, and eggs. Stir until well combined. The mixture will be thick, like cookie dough.
Fold in chocolate chips and any other mix-ins you’re using.
Take about ¼ cup of dough for each cookie cup. Press the dough into the bottom and about halfway up the sides of each prepared mold, creating a well in the center. The dough should be about ¼-inch thick all around.
Place 2-4 filled molds in your air fryer basket, depending on size. Don’t overcrowd. Cook for 6-8 minutes until the edges are set but the centers still look slightly soft.
Let the cookie cups cool in their molds for 5-7 minutes. Then carefully remove them to a wire rack to cool completely.
Once completely cool, fill with your favorite desserts like ice cream, mousse, pudding, or fresh fruit.
Notes
Silicone molds work best as they’re flexible and make removal easier, but ceramic ramekins work too if they’re air fryer safe.
If your dough is sticking to your fingers when forming the cups, lightly moisten your fingers with water or spray them with cooking spray
Cookie cups should be removed from the air fryer while they still look slightly underdone in the center. They’ll firm up as they cool.
If the cookie cups are sticking, run a butter knife gently around the edge. For silicone molds, you can carefully flip them inside out.
Unfilled cookie cups can be stored in an airtight container for up to 3 days or frozen for up to 3 months.
To refresh stored cookie cups, warm them in the air fryer for 1-2 minutes before filling
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie cup
- Calories: 245
- Sugar: 19 g
- Sodium: 210 mg
- Fat: 13 g
- Saturated Fat: 4 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 8 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 32 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 3 g
- Cholesterol: 47 mg
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