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Thick & Chewy Muffin Tin Sugar Cookies

February 16, 2016 by Deanna Tousignant 22 Comments

It’s been a while since we last baked something together, so when the big kid asked if we could make cookies for Family Day I said yes. Poking around the kitchen to see what ingredients we had at hand it was decided that we would make sugar cookies. We assembled all of the ingredients on the dining room table, dumped things into our over-sized bowl and mixed and mixed and stirred. Both girls took turns measuring, dumping and mixing.

You can tell I had helpers based on the sheer number of
measuring cups and spoons that ended up getting used.

I knew I didn’t feel like rolling out dough or cutting shaped cookies, so I had already told the girls we were going to make lump cookies. As we got to the part where the dough was almost ready to be formed into balls and squished into cookie shape the eight year old offered to grab the cookie sheet, while her younger sister and I finished up with the dough. Except she couldn’t find the cookies sheet. Of course, I thought she was just looking in the wrong spot, but then… I couldn’t find the darn thing either. Who the heck loses a cookie sheet? Apparently me, that’s who.

We’d already made the dough and heated up the oven, so I felt locked into baking cookies at this point. I eyed my big glass lasagna pan but decided against it as I know that things heat up differently when baking on glass versus baking on metal. We ended up popping the cookies into a muffin tin, putting them in the oven and hoping for the best.

They turned out AWESOME. Soft, chewy — this is my idea of cookie perfection. Now it could have just been that we made thick little lump cookies, instead of thin, rolled out, sugar cookies, but I am guessing the muffin tin and the way it spread out the heat had something to do with the way the cookies turned out. Plus the combination of rolling cookie dough into balls, squishing it flat in our hands and just popping each one into a spot on the muffin tray made this so darn perfect for doing with the kids. No worries about how the cookies are spaced out. It’s pretty much idiot proof.

I also don’t normally add vanilla to my sugar cookie dough. However ever since I brought back some pure vanilla of amazing tastiness from Mexico I’ve started sneaking it into everything. Even, on occasion, pot roast. No, I’m not kidding.

Anyroad, here it is, my recipe for Thick & Chewy Muffin Tin Sugar Cookies:

Ingredients:
1 cup margarine
1 1/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp sea salt
1/2 tsp baking powder
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
Optional chocolate, peanut butter or butterscotch chips.

Preheat oven to 350.

Stir the margarine and the sugar together for two of three minutes, until as my daughter put it “the sugar is all yellow” and evenly mixed.

Add the eggs, vanilla and salt and mix well, until the eggs are blended in.

Then add the dry ingredients, the baking powder and the flour. Mix until everything is a dough-like consistency. It will seem a little flaky and like it’s not sticking together. Get your hands in there and hand mix it, giving it a few good squeezes, and blam, suddenly it’s dough!

Form the dough into a small ball, smoosh it flat on the palm of your hand, and then pop that smooshed cookie into a spot in your muffin tin. Repeat until your muffin tin is full.

At this point, you can add chocolate chips if you like (or butterscotch, or peanut butter). Take a chip and push it point down into a cookie. Repeat as needed. My kids enjoyed squishing the chips into the cookies, and they enjoyed eating the end results. Personally, I prefer the plain sugar cookies.

Bake the cookies at 350 for 10 minutes, remove from oven and let cool for 10 minutes. Seriously, resist the urge to start trying to eat hot cookies. They will be sort of mushy when they first come out. As they cool they turn into cookie perfection. So, let them cool. And then…. ENJOY!

This recipe makes about three dozen thick and chewy cookies. Seal up any leftovers in an airtight container and they should stay fresh and chewy for a few days.

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Comments

  1. Elizabeth Matthiesen says

    February 16, 2016 at 7:39 pm

    Oh boy, these sound just like my kind of cookie so thanks so much for sharing this recipe 🙂

    Reply
  2. Nancy T says

    February 16, 2016 at 7:49 pm

    Mmmm these sound yummy! I've never thought of using a muffin tin to make cookies!

    Reply
  3. Deanna says

    February 16, 2016 at 7:54 pm

    I hadn't thought of it either, until I couldn't find my darn cookie tray!

    Reply
  4. Deanna says

    February 16, 2016 at 7:55 pm

    You're welcome, Elizabeth. Let me know what you think of them, if you give the recipe a try.

    Reply
  5. Dianne says

    February 17, 2016 at 5:42 am

    It certainly looks like the girls are enjoying the fruits of their labour. Quick thinking on your part….I would probably have tried putting a few sheets of foil on the oven rung and ended up with crunchy cookies. Your method and results look much better. Yum!

    Reply
  6. cookienewf says

    February 17, 2016 at 9:10 pm

    I cant wait to try this,they look delicious !

    Reply
  7. LisaM says

    February 21, 2016 at 6:23 am

    How clever! I would never have thought to try that.

    Reply
  8. Daniela Plume says

    February 22, 2016 at 10:39 pm

    WOW! these cookies look amazing. I love a good chewy cookie. thank you!

    Reply
  9. Lynda Cook says

    July 1, 2016 at 9:25 am

    I cook a big batch of eggs in my muffin tin, but never thought of using it for cookies, this would be awesome, and I am going to do this next time I make cookies!!

    Reply
  10. Cathleen @ A Taste of Madness says

    July 1, 2016 at 7:58 pm

    What a great idea!! I love that you used a muffin tin for cookies. That way they keep a great uniform form 🙂

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  11. Anne Marie Carter says

    July 15, 2016 at 8:55 pm

    Delicious and fun recipe and I love how they are made using muffin tins. I hate to roll out and cut cookie dough so, I usually make drop cookies.

    Reply
  12. Mishelle says

    October 10, 2016 at 11:07 am

    I never would have thought of that! What a smart idea!! You could also use it to put something in the middle of the cookie that way too! Very cool!

    M

    Reply
  13. Linda H says

    October 20, 2016 at 10:03 am

    This is a great idea and our family likes sugar cookies so I will have to try them.

    Reply
  14. jan says

    October 24, 2016 at 12:59 pm

    Lump cookies?! Love the name.

    Reply
  15. Elaine Buonsante says

    December 29, 2016 at 1:50 am

    Great thinking! Good idea especially for kids or if you just don’t want to roll and cut cookies.

    Reply
  16. Darren Scrubb says

    March 20, 2017 at 11:56 am

    Delicious looking cookies that I will enjoy trying out.

    Reply
  17. travelbuds says

    April 3, 2017 at 6:41 pm

    My daughter and I love to bake (while my son loves to eat the finished product). These look great and next time we make sugar cookies we’ll try your method.

    Reply
  18. Janet M says

    May 27, 2017 at 1:46 pm

    What an amazing idea. I will try these cookies.

    Reply
  19. Nate says

    November 10, 2017 at 6:11 pm

    I want to try and make this

    Reply
  20. lori galbraith says

    November 11, 2017 at 10:07 pm

    I love an easy cookie recipe, these look great.

    Reply
  21. Tammy Dalley says

    November 15, 2017 at 1:11 pm

    Wow these sound yummy! I have never thought about cooking cookies in muffin tins! Ill have to try these one night when I make cookies with my boys! Thanks for sharing

    Reply
  22. Susan T. says

    December 16, 2018 at 4:21 pm

    This is a very clever hack! I love soft and chewy cookies so this is one for me.

    Reply

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