Mini Egg Cookie Cups! – Jane’s Patisserie

Mini egg cookie cups with chopped mini eggs, chocolate chips, and a whipped chocolate ganache topping… best possible for Easter! 

I’m rather hooked on cookie bakes, are you able to all inform?! If no longer… the place have you ever been! They’re via a long way my favorite factor to bake nowadays, and while you upload in a scrumptious theme akin to Mini Eggs or perhaps a topping like a whipped ganache I’m SOLD.

This recipe is a lovely little deal with for Easter, this is rather extra particular and presentable than an ordinary cookie, and nonetheless simply as simple to bake and revel in. 

Easter Bakes

We’re smartly and in point of fact into the easter baking season now, and I’m right here for it. I’ve what looks like never-ending easter bakes in my again catalogue now and I actually can’t stay up anymore. I simply adore any seasonal baking. 

Let’s be truthful now regardless that, out of the entire Easter bakes that I’ve.. my mini egg ones are via a long way my hottest ones. I will by no means stay alongside of how well-liked they’re, and both method… I don’t become bored with them. I dread to assume now and again what number of packets of Mini Eggs I haven’t any purchased for this weblog and recipe growing, nevertheless it’s value each unmarried packet. 

My mini egg nyc cookies are certainly one of my hottest recipes I’ve ever produced, in conjunction with my mini egg cheesecake, and also you all look ahead to me posting them time and again on my social media each and every 12 months, so I believed this 12 months? I would like any other attractiveness. I simply sought after to put up any other mini egg based totally recipe that I do know you’re going to all LOVE. 

Cookie Dough

When taking a look at this recipe, I blended the tips of my cookie recipes akin to my NYC Cookies, in addition to my caramel cookie cups that have been on my weblog for a couple of years now. 

• Butter – For this kind of bake, you’ll use a block butter, or a baking unfold. 
• Sugar – I went for all gentle brown sugar as I love the flavor, however you’ll change all or a part of it for white granulated sugar like in my different cookie bakes 
• Egg – I generally tend to make use of medium eggs in my bakes, however you’ll use one massive egg as an alternative of on this cookie recipe
• Vanilla – Non-compulsory, however provides a scrumptious flavour. 
• Flour – Undeniable flour is the most productive so that you don’t get a cake like cookie 
• Elevating brokers – For those, I take advantage of bicarbonate of soda which is vintage for a cookie bake. Baking powder is other. 
• Salt – I all the time upload sea salt to my cookies as it’s scrumptious, however you’ll undoubtedly depart it out, or use salted butter
• Chocolate chips – I used milk chocolate chips because it’s what I had in my cabinet, however any paintings smartly 
• Mini Eggs – I used extra mini eggs in comparison to chocolate chips, however I did nonetheless overwhelm those rather 

The Tin 

When making those mini egg cookie cups, I used this 12 hollow muffin tin. I sought after to make the recipe as simple as imaginable, and the use of a muffin tin like this used to be the most productive, and in addition, most of the people already personal a muffin tin. I discovered it absolute best to oil each and every hollow of the muffin tin, after which line each and every hollow with strips of parchment paper. 

If you need, you’ll simply do two strips of parchment paper in step with hollow, the extra the merrier actually, and it is going to lend a hand save you the cookie cups getting caught as soon as they have got been baked. The greasing additionally is helping save you this as smartly. Or, you’ll upload small circles of parchment to the bottom.

When you sought after the cookie cups to have a straighter aspect, the recipe additionally works in a 12 hollow mini cake tin like this one – those will naturally have straighter facets anyway, and feature a unfastened backside to the tin so it’s simple to get the cookie cups out.

After I upload the cookie dough to the tin, you’ll press the dough down rather within the heart to create a dip for afterward with the ganache, however that is not obligatory. Naturally they’ll dip rather anyway for this.  

Whipped Ganache

When it got here to the topping of those mini egg cookie cups, I didn’t need to use buttercream or a cream cheese frosting like I’ve utilized in cookie bakes ahead of, I sought after to do one thing slightly other. I used to be principally impressed via my valentines brownie I posted a couple of weeks in the past, however a whipped ganache is my new dependancy. 

As a result of the beauty of the cookie dough, and the mini eggs, I sought after to make a gloomy chocolate ganache. I do know numerous other people don’t like darkish chocolate, nevertheless it works to make it stability the beauty. 

Making the ganache with equivalent amounts of darkish chocolate and double cream, melting those in combination within the microwave, or heating the double cream in a pan at the hob and pouring over chocolate, then you definately depart it to set to a thick peanut butter consistency. 

Letting the ganache sit down and thicken itself makes the whipping procedure a lot more a success and faster, and creates a gentle and mousse like ganache that’s a dream to pipe with. Despite the fact that, you’ll want to make it as you’re going to pipe it, as it does set briefly. 

If you wish to make a milk chocolate ganache on the other hand, you’ll, however you’re going to want two portions chocolate, to 1 phase cream, because the cocoa content material in milk chocolate is way decrease in comparison to darkish chocolate. 

Guidelines & Methods 

• Those ultimate for 4-5+ days as soon as made
• Those will freeze for three+ months
• If you need a milk chocolate ganache, use a 2:1 ratio, as an alternative of one:1
• The mini eggs will also be swapped for many different chopped up sweets
• You’ll use no matter flavour chocolate chip you need
• You’ll sub the cornflour for 25g extra undeniable flour
• You’ll make those chocolate flavoured via changing 50g of flour with 35g cocoa powder 
• That is the tin I take advantage of
• That is the cookie scoop I used

Cookie cups

• 115 g unsalted butter/baking unfold
• 200 g gentle brown comfortable sugar
• 1 medium egg
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 275 g undeniable flour
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 tbsp cornflour
• 100 g chocolate chips
• 150 g mini eggs (beaten)

Ornament

• 150 g darkish chocolate
• 150 g double cream
• mini eggs

• Preheat the oven to 190ºc/170ºc fan and seize a 12 hollow muffin tin. 

• Grease and line with strips of parchment paper

• Upload the butter and sugar to a bowl and beat in combination

• Upload the vanilla and egg and blend once more

• Upload the flour, bicarb, salt and cornflour and blend once more

• Upload the chocolate chips and mini eggs 

• Break up between the 12 holes, I take advantage of a 5cm cookie scoop, after which press into each and every one.

• You’ll make a hollow within the heart as you press if you wish to make extra of a dip

• Bake within the oven for 14-16 mins, after which depart to chill within the tin

• As soon as cooled, use the strips to lend a hand take away them from the tin

• Upload the darkish chocolate and cream to a bowl and soften in combination

• Depart to set to a peanut butter consistency after which whip on a top pace

• Pipe into the center of the cookie cups after which upload mini eggs 

• Those ultimate for 4-5+ days as soon as made
• Those will freeze for three+ months
• If you need a milk chocolate ganache, use a 2:1 ratio, as an alternative of one:1
• The mini eggs will also be swapped for many different chopped up sweets
• You’ll use no matter flavour chocolate chip you need
• You’ll sub the cornflour for 25g extra undeniable flour
• You’ll make those chocolate flavoured via changing 50g of flour with 35g cocoa powder 
• That is the tin I take advantage of
• That is the cookie scoop I used

ENJOY!

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