Ok, I tried the muffin pan thing. Rule number one. Don't use that much cookie dough. Put a cookie sheet under the muffin tins....trust me on this, it will run all over your oven. I caught it before it got bad. The dough ran all over the bottom of the muffin tin so it made one really big cookie with three cups. There was no way to get it off the pan when it was warm, so I'm cooling it on the pan and wil try to get it off.
I'm beginning to think my mom was right when she said, "why not just coat the inside of the muffin tin"