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Twix Cookies are a soft sugar cookie crust, with a creamy caramel on top which is topped with milk chocolate. This delicious cookie explodes with Twix flavor and are super fun to make! Skip the candy bar and make your own!

twix cookies

Twix Cookies- Cookie, Caramel and CHOCOLATE!

Twix is one of my favorite candy bars. I mean, I don’t like to be picky and choosy.. I’d eat almost any candy bar placed in front of me (besides you, Almond Joy!). If I played favorites, though, Twix and Milky Way would be up there.

And what do those two glorious candy bars have in common? Chocolate and Caramel. Heart eyes for days. SERIOUSLY.

So, I thought, why not use my favorite sugar cookie recipe and make my own?? I honestly felt a little like Lindsay Lohan in the parent trap.. Brilliant, beyond brilliant, idea. ?

While making these, I can’t even tell you how many I ate. An embarrassing number, I assure you. To get that picture perfect bite mark I went through at least 4. I’m all about honesty over here, clearly. It’s a good thing I like running!

twix cookies

How to make Twix Cookie Cups

First, you’ll start out with my favorite sugar cookie dough. Basically, it’s butter, sugar, an egg white, vanilla, flour and baking powder.

Butter, sugar, egg and vanilla

The finished dough should be soft and pliable. It should be the same consistency as Play-Doh.

Roll the cookie dough out until it is in between 1/4 and 1/2 inch thick. The cookies will not rise at all while baking. However thick they are cut is how thick the finished cookie will be.

I use a 2 1/2 inch round cookie cutter.

cookies being cut with cookie cutters

Bake at 350° for 6-7 minutes, or until puffy and no longer glossy.

Pull out of the oven and let cool completely.

While the cookie cups are cooling, Microwave wrapped caramels and a little milk until melted and then stir until combined.

Carefully spoon about a tsp or so of caramel onto each cookie. Spread the caramel around to almost cover the whole cookie.

caramel added to the cookie

Toss the pan full of cookies into the fridge for 10 or 15 minutes to help the caramel cool.

While the cookies and caramel are in the fridge, melt the milk chocolate.

carefully spoon and spread the milk chocolate onto the cooled caramel. You can set back in the fridge to help the chocolate cool quickly or they will set up at room temperature.

chocolate onto the twix cookies
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Twix Cookie Cups

Twix Cookies are a soft sugar cookie crust, with a creamy caramel on top which is topped with milk chocolate. This delicious cookie explodes with Twix flavor and are super fun to make! Skip the candy bar and make your own!
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Additional Time: 20 minutes
Total Time: 40 minutes
Servings: 24 cookie cups

Ingredients 

Instructions 

  • Preheat oven to 350°. 
  • Cream together the butter and sugar.
  • Add in the egg and vanilla. Mix until well combined.
  • Add the flour and baking powder. Mix thoroughly.
  • Roll the dough out until 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick. Use a round cookie cutter to cut out circles. Transfer to an ungreased pan.
  • Bake at 350° for 6-8 minutes. Pull out of the oven when the cookies are puffy and no longer glossy.
  • Transfer to a wire rack and allow to cool completely.
  • While the cookies are cooling, microwave the caramels and milk for 1 minute. Stir at the 30 second mark. Stir until smooth and creamy.
  • Carefully spoon a few teaspoons of caramel onto each cookie, spreading until it almost covers the cookie. 
  • Placethe cookies and caramel into the fridge for 10 -15 minutes or until completely cold. 
  • Melt the chocolate chips for 30 second intervals until completely melted and incorporated.
  • Spread a small amount of chocolate onto each cookie. Let the chocolate layer cool and set up before serving.

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YIELD: 2 Dozen Cookies

Twix Cookie Cups

(Printable Recipe Below)

Twix Cookies are a soft sugar cookie crust, with a creamy caramel on top which is topped with milk chocolate. This delicious cookie explodes with Twix flavor and are super fun to make! Skip the candy bar and make your own!

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 egg white
  • 1 1/2 cups flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 20 caramels, unwrapped
  • 1 tbsp milk, (I used whole)
  • 2 cups milk chocolate chips

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350°.
  2. Cream together the butter and sugar.
  3. Add in the egg and vanilla. Mix until well combined.
  4. Add the flour and baking powder. Mix thoroughly.
  5. Roll the dough out until 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick. Use a round cookie cutter to cut out circles. Transfer to an ungreased pan.
  6. Bake at 350° for 6-8 minutes. Pull out of the oven when the cookies are puffy and no longer glossy.
  7. Transfer to a wire rack and allow to cool completely.
  8. While the cookies are cooling, microwave the caramels and milk for 1 minute. Stir at the 30 second mark. Stir until smooth and creamy.
  9. Carefully spoon a few teaspoons of caramel onto each cookie, spreading until it almost covers the cookie.
  10. Placethe  cookies and caramel into the fridge for 10 -15 minutes or until completely cold.
  11. Melt the chocolate chips for 30 second intervals  until completely melted and incorporated.
  12. Spread a small amount of chocolate onto each cookie. Let the chocolate layer cool and set up before serving.

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  1. Hi there, the cookies will puff up a bit, but will not rise and expand. The cookies will fall to the before baked state after cooling down. I hope this helps explain!

  2. These look soo good, but unfortunately the cookies have no flavor and the dough wouldn’t hold without more flour. 2 cups choc chips were way too much; 1 cup would do. I followed this recipe exactly.

  3. Made these today, I did not roll them out ,just made into balls and flatten , I only yield 10 cookies!, will need to dlb. the recipe, also going to layer peanut butter and than caramel and choc.

  4. Hi Laurie- it seems that something must have gone wrong at some point. The cookie base here is the same recipe as my extremely loved and popular sugar cookie recipe. If anything, the dough may need a bit of water to bring the dough together, it definitely shouldn’t need more flour which leads me to believe that too much liquid was added on accident at some point. Sorry they weren’t more of a success for you!

  5. These came out perfect! The only change I made was I used dark chocolate instead of milk chocolate. I’ll be making another batch of these for work. Thanks for the recipe!!

  6. instead of melting the caramels, would you use the bottled caramel topping? (like sundae topping)

  7. Hi Alexis, you could, but it might get pretty messy. But they would definitely still taste delicious!