Browned Butter Salted Caramel Chocolate Chip Cookie Cups with Graham Cracker Crusts

After my last attempt at caramel sauce in a chocolate chip cookie...I decided to try again. I was hopeful the caramel would be more noticeable. Good news: it was! Slightly. But it helped that I drizzled the cups with caramel too. And that I used browned butter...actually....browning butter is just helpful, period. Mmmmm...

Anyway, when I decided to make this recipe I realized that I was lacking in pretzels (which were what originally crusted these cups)--so instead I made little graham cracker crusts. Which meant these cookie cups taste a little s'moresy...ya know...minus the marshmallows...stay with me on this.

Cookie cups are great-you never have to worry about if they're going to rise correctly or spread too much or anything. They just bake up in their little muffin cups and you are guaranteed a thick, chewy, gooey cookie. Plus, now there's a whole world of putting a crust on your cookie. So it's like cookie + pie. Amazingness.

These cookies are perfectly portable yet soft and gooey on the insides. The browned butter adds that bit of depth, and the caramel drizzled on top with the salt adds that mmm mmm salty goodness to the sweet. The graham cracker crust is buttery and delightful and...chocolate chips...always our friends. They're crazy addictive and simply irresistible. Find out for yourselves, my friends!

Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Cups

I really fear for the time where I'm pregnant (I mean not really...it'll be pretty exciting but go with me on this)--because I have cravings now, I can only imagine how severe they'll be then! 

A couple weeks ago, I had a sudden and intense need for some sort of sweet with chocolate (that's what I get for eating non-chocolate desserts), but was short on time. I just needed something quick and easy, but super satisfying.

Perfect solution=these cookie cups.

Aside from browning the butter, you just whisk everything together in one bowl, mush the dough down into some muffin cups, bake for a small bit of a time then TA-DA! Cookie cups.

Now, if I was looking for quick and easy, why did I give myself the extra step of browning the butter?

1. Um...browned butter is amazing and delicious and totally worth it.

2. I wanted to do that tutorial on how to brown butter, so this allowed me to take the photos for that post.

3. Refer back to answer #1.

These cookie cups are not only super simple and fast, they also taste amazing. The browned butter, as always, takes these to a whole other level, the texture is perfection, and they are positively brimming with chocolate chips! Yes yes yes. All good things. Hurray!