Cookie cups
Cookie cups are a delicious twist on a classic cookie recipe. Filled with chocolate ganache and topped with a treat, they’re an indulgent snack everyone will love!
Cookie cups are a fun recipe kids will love. If you like cookies, these cookie cups take it to the next level. They’re no more difficult to make than our usual easy cookies but they’ve been turned into delicious cups and filled with ganache. What’s not to love?!
How can kids help to make cookie cups?
Cookie cups are a fun recipe based on our favourite easy cookie recipe for kids. It’s an easy recipe for kids to follow – if they’re old enough they might be able to do the whole thing by themselves.
As with most bakes, your kids can help to measure and mix all the ingredients together. It all gets added to the same bowl so it’s relatively straightforward and doesn’t create too much mess.
Instead of scooping out dough to make cookies, your kids can help to divide the mixture before pressing it into the muffin tin. If you want you can turn it into a maths lesson and weigh the dough before dividing it into 12 pieces.
Finally, to fill the cookie cups, you’re kids can help make the ganache. It’s a simple process of heating cream and chocolate together but finishes the cups off nicely.
Do I need to use two different sugars?
No. We’ve used a mixture of soft brown sugar and caster sugar which I like in cookies – the brown sugar gives some nice flavour and softness while the caster sugar adds the nice crisp outside cookies have.
You could choose to use just one sugar however. All soft brown or all caster. Whatever you prefer and have to hand.
How do you store cookie cups?
Cookie cups will keep in an airtight container at room temperature for 3-5 days.
If you want to keep them for longer, you can freeze them for up to three months. Simply wrap them individually in cling film / glad wrap and pop them in a freezer bag. Make sure you defrost them fully at room temperature before you serve them.
Make sure you defrost fully it at room temperature before you serve them.
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Useful equipment
You might need some of the following equipment to make these cookie cups:
Digital scales
Measuring cups
Measuring spoons
Free-standing mixer
Mixing bowl
Wooden spoon
Muffin tin
Heatproof bowl
Piping bag
Nozzles
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Ingredients
For the cookie cups
100g butter
100g caster sugar
50g light brown sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
225g plain flour
½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
½ teaspoon salt
150g chocolate chips
For the ganache filling
125g dark chocolate
125ml double cream
How to make cookie cups
Preheat your oven to 180C / 160F Fan / 350F and grease a 12 hole muffin tin. Add some strips of baking or greaseproof paper into each hole to make it easier to remove the cookie cups after they’re baked.
Beat the butter and sugars together
Get your kids to measure the butter and sugars out and add them to a mixing bowl or the bowl of a free-standing mixer.
The butter needs to be soft enough to mix into the sugars so if yours has come straight from the oven and is still hard, cut it into a few pieces and pop in the microwave for 10 seconds or so to soften it (not long enough for it to melt).
Beat the butter and sugars together with a hand held whisk or the k-paddle of your free-standing mixer. You can also beat them with a wooden spoon but it takes a bit longer (and a bit more effort).
Add the egg and vanilla
Get your kids to crack the egg into a small bowl before adding it to your mixing bowl. We never add ours straight in, just in case any rogue shell goes in with it. If it does, simply fish it out with a larger piece of shell or a teaspoon. It will stick to that better than it will your finger and be a lot less messy.
Add the vanilla. If you have younger children you may need to hold the teaspoon steady while they pour the vanilla in or vice versa.
Mix the egg and vanilla in – the mixture will be a little sloppy at this point, but that’s fine.
Add the flour, bicarbonate of soda and salt
Get your kids to measure out the flour, bicarbonate of soda and salt and add them to your mixing bowl. Make sure your kids use their finger to level the teaspoon before adding the bicarb and salt so that you add just the right amount.
Mix it all together.
Add the chocolate chips
Finally add the chocolate chips and stir them in with a spatula or wooden spoon until they are well distributed through the cookie dough.4
Make the cookie cups
Divide the cookie dough mixture into 12 portions then add them to your muffin tin. If you have scales you can weigh the dough before dividing it into 12. Ours used about 52g in each cup.
Press each bit of cookie dough into tin holes leaving a bit of a dip in the middle so they form a cup shape.
Bake the cookie cups
Bake the cookie cups for 12-15 minutes. They’re ready when they’ve started to turn a nice golden colour.
Remove them from the oven. You might find they’ve risen a bit so you might want to use the end of a wooden spoon or something to press them back to down gently so they maintain their cookie shape.
Leave them to cool in the tin, then once cooled use the strips of baking paper to remove them from the tin. Set them out onto a wire rack.
Make the ganache
Get your kids to break/cut the chocolate up into small pieces and add it to a bowl.
Heat the cream in a small pan, and once it’s starts to simmer pour it over the chocolate pieces. Mix it together until the ganache is nice and smooth.
Alternatively you can make the ganache in the microwave. Simply add the chocolate pieces and cream to a bowl and heat it in bursts in the microwave, mixing it in between bursts.
Leave the ganache to set until it is the texture of a chocolate spread.
Add the ganache to a piping bag fitted with a large star shaped nozzle. Get your kids to help pipe the ganache into each cookie cup.
Top with some chocolate sprinkles, Smarties/ M&Ms or at Easter why not add some mini eggs.
Serve and enjoy.
Cookie cups
Ingredients
Equipment
Method
- Measure the butter and sugars out and add them to a mixing bowl or the bowl of a free-standing mixer.Beat the butter and sugars together with a hand held whisk or the k-paddle of your free-standing mixer. You can also beat them with a wooden spoon but it takes a bit longer (and a bit more effort).
- Crack the egg into a small bowl before adding it to your mixing bowl. We never add ours straight in, just in case any rogue shell goes in with it. If it does, simply fish it out with a larger piece of shell or a teaspoon. It will stick to that better than it will your finger and be a lot less messy.Add the vanilla.
- Mix the egg and vanilla in – the mixture will be a little sloppy at this point, but that's fine.
- Measure out the flour, bicarbonate of soda and salt and add them to your mixing bowl. Mix it all together.
- Finally add the chocolate chips and stir them in with a spatula or wooden spoon until they are well distributed through the cookie dough.
- Divide the cookie dough mixture into 12 portions then add them to your muffin tin. If you have scales you can weigh the dough before dividing it into 12. Ours used about 52g in each cup.Press each bit of cookie dough into tin holes leaving a bit of a dip in the middle so they form a cup shape.
- Bake the cookie cups for 12-15 minutes. They're ready when they've started to turn a nice golden colour.
- Remove them from the oven. You might find they've risen a bit so you might want to use the end of a wooden spoon or something to press them back to down gently in the middle so they maintain their cookie cup shape.
- Leave them to cool in the tin, then once cooled use the strips of baking paper to remove them from the tin. Set them out onto a wire rack.
- Break/cut the chocolate up into small pieces and add it to a bowl.Heat the cream in a small pan, and once it's starts to simmer pour it over the chocolate pieces. Mix it together until the ganache is nice and smooth.
- Alternatively you can make the ganache in the microwave. Simply add the chocolate pieces and cream to a bowl and heat it in bursts in the microwave, mixing it in between bursts.
- Leave the ganache to set until it is the texture of a chocolate spread.
- Add the ganache to a piping bag fitted with a large star shaped nozzle. Pipe the ganache into each cookie cup. Top with some chocolate sprinkles, or Smarties/ M&Ms.
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