I present you this phenomenal strawberry cookie cup recipe with a ton of flavor and health from oats, honey, coconut oil, nuts and peanut butter. Hiding inside these, is this thick and gooey strawberry filling. Also million of smiles from nutella and chocolate chips!! 🙂 🙂 🙂
I am slightly confused about what to call these cookies. A dessert? My breakfast? Some snack? Or a healthy treat?
These cookie cup are all of the above and more to me. These are so yum that these barely feel healthy. Did I ever talked about how I want my healthy bakes to taste like? I don't permit them to taste healthy. That can't happen in my world, ever!
No one likes to eat a healthy food that tastes all dry wood and dead leaves. Or is brick hard to break your teeth! I will have a butter loaded, sugar packed dessert instead and die 10 years early. No. I am serious!
The cookie cup recipe today is so chewy from oats, so jammy from the strawberry filling and are perfectly crunchy from nuts that your belly is sure to dance as the first bite goes in! Oops, sorry for the run on sentence I just typed. Catch your breath.
Shining flavors in our cookie cup
You have got an awful lot of strawberry taste in each bite. Come on valentines is around the corner. Also there is truck load of flavors and textures going on from nuts and chocolates combined.
All of the flavors above have bonded with fibrous oats, coconut oil for moistness and honey for sweetness in the cookies. This cookie has got it all. All things good! Call this a faultless, guiltless and indulgent cookie cup recipe if you please.
How to form layers in strawberry cookie cup
Our cookie cup has four layers in total. And every layer is serving a unique purpose in the cookie. The bottom one has an added nuttiness to it from peanut butter. Next one is the chocolate layer where we add some nutella in the base layer.
The third layer is the most praise worthy. It takes away all the attention. It has a gooey strawberry filing that contrasts well with the chewy texture of the cookie. Love strawberry? Here are some more strawberry treats for you! These strawberry cookies would be perfect for valentines. So quick and easy!
Okay. Back to our cookie cups!
Final layer in these is just a crumble of remains from the base layer combined with nuts and chocolate chips!
I have baked eight of these. You may double the recipe at ease if you wish. Also feel free to replace the brown sugar used in the recipe with honey in equal amount.
Just look at how fancy this cookie cup with all those layers appears! ⇓ ⇓ ⇓
But I tell you it's laughably easy to put together. And so many ingredients are common in every layer. And it's sure to please everyone who sights eats this.
Process to assemble the cookie cup
We will press the peanut butter-oats mixture in the liners first. Then comes nutella-oats mixture. Take your time to press in these layers firmly. So that these form beautiful cookies with ruffles when taken out of liners.
Spread strawberry filling next and sprinkle the crumbs of remaining oats mixture with nuts. And it's time to bake these cups!
Quick Tip:
If you feel a little lazy to form so many layers, you may mix the first two layers together, spread strawberry filling, some crumbs and nuts for decoration and put these in oven. They will still taste the same and look wonderful. 😉
Some of my recent bakes-
Yummiest vanilla pound cake that is light in texture.
My favorite cake on planet- Lemon sponge
Another citrus flavored chiffon cake in orange flavor
Perfect for snacking these healthy bars
Or these cookie tasting granola to eat with spoon
Oh and my breakfast today-healthy whole wheat muffins with banana and nuts!
What would you like to see me post next??
Cookie cup with strawberries filling
Ingredients
- 2 Cups Oats
- 4 Tbsp Brown sugar
- 4 Tbsp Honey
- 4 Tbsp Coconut oil
- 4 Tbsp Peanut butter
- 2 Tbsp Nutella
- 1 medium Egg
- ⅛ tsp Salt
- 4 Tbsp Chopped Nuts (of choice) +mini chocolate chips
For strawberry filling
- 8 Strawberries (medium sized)
- 2 Tbsp Honey
- 1 ½ tsp Cornstarch (dissolves in a tsp of water)
Instructions
- 1. Preheat your oven to 325°F and line 8 cupcake liners in a muffin pan Set aside.2. Chop strawberries, add honey and cornstarch to it. Microwave in small increments of 15 seconds until thickened to a jam like consistency. Keep stirring in between.3. Coarse grind oats. Add melted peanut butter, coconut oil (I love this one), salt, honey, egg and brown sugar to them. Keep 6 tbsps of this mix in a separate bowl for crumb topping.4. Now add nutella in the half of remaining oats and mix. This will be our second layer of chocolate.5. Press peanut butter oats mix into all the 8 cups. Now press the chocolate oats layer in the cups.6. Spread cooled strawberry filling in the cups. Sprinkle with the remaining 6 tbsps of oats, nuts and chocolate chips.8. Bake for about 17-22 minutes. The tops of strawberry cookie cups will appear golden and the jam will be slightly jiggly. This is when you know these cups are baked.9. Let them cool completely before unwrapping from the liners
Notes
- Use strawberry jam instead of homemade filling when in a hurry or strawberries are unavailable. For homemade jam frozen strawberries can be used.
- Replacing brown sugar with all honey to make these even more healthy is a breeze. I make it using only honey all the time.
Nutrition
What a fun and delightful snack treat! I wish I had one of these right now! I know these wouldn't last long in my house..saving for later1
These look so delicious! I love the layers and what a great combo of flavors!
Love the perfect balance of sweet and crunchy! A great way to cure my sweet tooth!
OMG! These look so amazing!! Can't wait to make them for my family.
Hi Neha. Loved the recipe. How many days can they last in room temperature?
They should be good for 2-3 days. I suggest storing them in refrigerator for better taste and texture preservation.
Looks delicious ...😋😋
Thanks Ankitaa!
Wow. Fun! I need to make these for my grand daughter! (and for me)
Thanks! So glad you liked these. I am sure your grand daughter will adore these cookie cups. 😉
True confession time - I've never tried Nutella before. Right? What IS wrong with me? Good question! I'm going to have to jump on the bandwagon JUST for this recipe. It looks delectable!
What? Make a run for it Christina I'd say! And lick nutella no less than 10 times as soon as you open the lid. 😉 Thanks for liking the recipe and stopping by! Let me know how it turned out for you! 🙂 Also I was trying to reach your blog and it's showing me some privacy error. You might want to look into it.
Oh dang, thank you for letting me know! I'll have my husband look into it as soon as he wakes up!
You must. <3
Oh these look so good Neha, I love the combination of ingredients and makes such a wonderful and healthy snack or breakfast 🙂
Thanks Ashika! These sure make a healthy and delightful treat to enjoy anytime of the day.
I would recognize your works, really : so vibrant full of joy ...... Thank you for this one !
That is so kind of you to say so everytime. <3 Thanks for stopping by!
mmmm....I am going to go with healthy treat so I can eat as many as I want hahaha. Love the strawberry filling in these!! XOXO
Thanks Kelly! That's an absolute freedom we get gobbling up as much as our heart desires, for it is healthy. 😉
These cookie cups sound delicious...and look really cool, too! I agree that I don't know what to call these either...but it doesn't matter. I would gladly take a batch of these and just figure out what to call 'em later. Love the strawberry flavor here with all of the textures!
Thanks David! Why don't we call these cool-cookie-cups then! 😉
There is so much deliciousness going on here Neha. I LOVE the layers!! 🙂 There's just so many different tasting treats to this one strawberry cookie cup, what an amazing recipe! And perfect for today, Valentines day too! 🙂
Thanks a lot Neil. You said it so right. There are so many textures going on in this small cookie cup. Hope you and your wife have a wonderful valentines! <3
These are awesome!! I want to make them for my kids - they'll devour them, especially if I call them cookie cups 😉 Yum!!
Thanks Katherine! I am sure they will like these. Shouldn't cookie in a cup be called as cookie cup!. 😉
Those would definitely go over well at our house!
I am sure Deborah! I hope you get to try these. <3
Yummy! These cookie cups seem so finger-licking, Neha! Can I have them for breakfast? 🙂
Thanks Agness! You must. 😉 If you ask me, I have one for breakfast, one as a midday snack and one after dinner for dessert till these last.🤩
No matter what meal you call these they look amazing! I’d eat them all day anytime of day!
So do I. All the time! Thanks for stopping by and liking these. 🙂
Those are so beautiful and healthy-looking too. I love how everything you make is so full of color. Food that makes people smile before they take a bite. 🙂
And your kind words make me smile too. Always! Thanks for stopping by. <3
Looks delicious Neha 🙂
Thanks! They indeed are.
They look wholesome! Love the healthy cookie crust and the berry filling is just irresistible.
Thanks Angie! You said it so right. Filling is the best part of these cookie cups. 🙂