Peanut Butter, Pretzel & Chocolate Chip Cookie Cups

Peanut Butter, Pretzel & Chocolate Chip Cookie Cups are gluten free and refined sugar free. Perfect for red nose day charity bake sale!

Chocolate chip cookie cups. Cookie freakin cups. These were so good the batch did not last the day, and there were 12 of them. They are moorish little pockets of cookie dough, salty pretzels, peanut butter and chocolate chips. They’re addictive, and the fact that they are so simple to make means they’ll probably be happening a bit too often.

Not too long ago I graced the blog with these  coffee & oat breakfast cookies, and now wanted to take it a bit further and make bigger, more decadent cookies. These might not be perfectly suited for breakfast, but they do make one heck of a treat – especially when warm out of the oven, with some ice cream, and perhaps an extra drizzle of chocolate.

They are gluten free, made with a combination of almond, oat, and brown rice flour. If you’d rather use plain flour simply substitute per weight.

Peanut Butter, Pretzel & Chocolate Chip Cookie Cups are gluten free and refined sugar free. Perfect for red nose day charity bake sale!      Peanut Butter, Pretzel & Chocolate Chip Cookie Cups are gluten free and refined sugar free. Perfect for red nose day charity bake sale!

These Peanut Butter, Pretzel & Chocolate Chip Cookie Cups were made for Red Nose Day, which is happening on the 24th of March. If you’re from outside the UK, Red Nose Day is a a fundraiser organised by Comic Relief to help fight poverty and injustice.

On Red Nose Day everyone is encouraged to cast inhibitions aside, put on a Red Nose and fundraise – and one of the ways to do so is through a Bake Sale. That is also why these little chocolate chip cookie cups have little raspberries for noses. It’s such an amazing cause to get involved in, so bust out those baking tins, turn on the oven, and put on that red nose!

If you want to bake a massive difference this Red Nose Day then order a free fabulous baking kit from the Red Nose Day website here.

Peanut Butter, Pretzel & Chocolate Chip Cookie Cups are gluten free and refined sugar free. Perfect for red nose day charity bake sale!      Peanut Butter, Pretzel & Chocolate Chip Cookie Cups are gluten free and refined sugar free. Perfect for red nose day charity bake sale!

Peanut Butter, Pretzel & Chocolate Chip Cookie Cups
 
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Serves: 12
Ingredients
  • ¼ cup plus 2 tablespoons | 100g butter
  • 2 tablespoons peanut butter
  • ½ cup | 125g rapadura or light brown sugar
  • 1 tablespoon maple syrup
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla powder or extract
  • ½ cup 50g almond flour
  • ½ cup plus 1 tablespoon | 60g oat flour
  • ½ cup plus 1 tablespoon | 60g fine brown rice flour
  • 4 tablespoons tapioca starch
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • ½ cup | 75g chocolate chips
  • ½ cup | 75g crushed up pretzels (mine were gluten free)
  • Raspberries (optional, as red noses!)
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 175ºC | 350ºF and lightly grease a 12 hole muffin tray.
  2. Whip the butter, peanut butter, and sugar until combined and fluffy. Add the maple syrup, vanilla and eggs and whisk until fully incorporated.
  3. Sift in the flours, tapioca starch, baking soda and salt and mix until combined and no bits of flour can be seen.
  4. Stir in the chocolate chips and pretzels, then divide the dough equally into the 12 muffin cups.
  5. Bake for 12-14 minutes, until lightly browned on top.
  6. Let cool before removing from the cup, them decorate with a raspberry as a nose and some chocolate chips as eyes!
 

Peanut Butter, Pretzel & Chocolate Chip Cookie Cups are gluten free and refined sugar free. Perfect for red nose day charity bake sale!
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