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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!
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes
Servings: 12
Course: Afternoon tea, Dessert
Cuisine: British
Calories: 351
Ingredients Equipment Method

Ingredients
  

For the cookie cups
  • 100 g (¼ cup) butter
  • 100 g (caster sugar
  • 50 g light brown sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 225 g (1 + 3/4 cups) plain flour
  • ½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 150 g chocolate chips
For the ganache filling
  • 125 g dark chocolate
  • 125 ml double cream

Equipment

  • Digital scales
  • Measuring cups
  • measuring spoons
  • Free-standing mixer
  • Mixing bowl
  • Wooden spoon
  • Muffin tin
  • Heatproof bowl
  • Piping bag
  • Nozzles

Method
 

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
    1. 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).
    Add the egg and vanilla
    1. 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.
    2. 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
    1. Measure out the flour, bicarbonate of soda and salt and add them to your mixing bowl.
      Mix it all together.
    Add the chocolate chips
    1. Finally add the chocolate chips and stir them in with a spatula or wooden spoon until they are well distributed through the cookie dough.
    Make the cookie cups
    1. 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
    1. Bake the cookie cups for 12-15 minutes. They're ready when they've started to turn a nice golden colour.
    2. 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.
    3. 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
    1. 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.
    2. 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.
    3. Leave the ganache to set until it is the texture of a chocolate spread.
    4. 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.