Cookie Cups

 

On one of our mall excursions (in order to avoid the heat), Nick and I walked past a cookie place and saw cookie cupcakes.  Not actually cupcakes but actually big huge cookie cupcake shaped blobs.  Both of us had mouths hanging open, practically drooling over said cookie cups. The conversation went a little something like this.

"Wouldn't those be awesome at the wedding?" says Angelala.

"Wouldn't those be awesome now?" says Mr. O.

"We could make those," Angelala said.

"Totally," replies Mr. O.  

So last night, we attempted to create them.  We knew they wouldn't turn out perfectly.  We were experimenting.  We ended up with mixed results but delicious results nonetheless.  So what did we do?

We started by making good ol' Toll House Chocolate Chip recipe.  And by we, I of course mean me.  Here's what Nick was doing.

 

Yeah....I don't know either.

Now being that I'm, well, me.  Something will go wrong.  Yeah, well no real measuring cups or teaspoons/tablespoons.  It happens with only guys in the house.  Had to estimate for some stuff.  I was just glad they had an electric hand mixer and I didn't have to kill my arms stirring by hand.  

The results:

We're good at sharing.  That's a fire extinguisher...good handy spot.  Sorry but I didn't need to use it.  Not that exciting.  

 

Nick got greedy eating the cookie dough and was banished out of the kitchen with the dog.  

 

I promise I let him back in the kitchen right after he promised to stop stealing the dough.

We just put the dough in a muffin pan.  Sprayed the crap out of that thing.  You really don't need the little muffin paper cups....just makes it harder to eat later.

Before and After baking:

We cooked the first batch at 325 degrees for about 15(ish) minutes.  The second batch was 300 for a little longer and it worked better.  Sadly, they deflated in the centers about three minutes after taking them out of the oven.  But that was ok...

We had some cream cheese frosting.  We even made, that's right, made our own pastry bag out of a ziploc bag with a hole cut in the bottom corner. 

 

So in the end, here's what we learned.  

Need to add baking powder in lieu of baking soda. 

They don't need to be so big.  Seriously, it's like eating three cookies....After one it's like a sugar overload.

Keep the temp at 300 and cook them longer.  

You can use the baking powder and use the cookie cup as an actual cup....for ice cream perhaps!  YUM!!

If you have any other ideas to make them look prettier (cause they taste awesome), please let me know.  Or if you try them out, I'd love to see/hear your results!