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Easter Egg Cups!

Posted on April 11, 2014 by Ruthanne

These rich chocolate cookie cups are dipped in chocolate and filled with a rich cream “egg”. A perfect Easter treat!!!

Do you love Cadbury Eggs? I’m addicted. That’s why I decided that there simply must be a chocolate cookie cup filled with Cadbury-like cream. I used my favorite recipe for chocolate cut-out cookies and they baked just beautifully into firm little cups. I dipped the tops in melted chocolate and piped yummy cream filling inside. Fun and delicious!

Here’s the recipe: (printable recipe)

INGREDIENTS:

Cookie Cup:

2 sticks (1 cup) butter, softened
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
3 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 bag of Wilton’s dark chocolate candy melts.

Filling:

3/4 cup light Karo syrup
12 tablespoons of butter (softened)
2 tablespoons vanilla
4 cups powdered sugar
1 to 2 tablespoons of water (for consistency)

DIRECTIONS:

Preheat oven to 350F degrees.
Add butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla and cocoa together in large mixing bowl.
Blend on medium speed with a mixer until smooth.
Gradually add dry ingredients and mix until smooth (use clean hands at the end, to knead into a soft ball of dough)
Divide dough into 24 balls of equal size, and place each one in a muffin cup.
Press an indentation into each ball using a tart shaping tool (or the end of a wooden spoon)
Bake at 350F degrees for 8-10 minutes. Press Tart shaping tool into center again, to reshape cups.
Allow the cups to cool for about 5 minutes in pan, then run a small paring knife around edge to pop cup out of pan.
Cool completely on counter.
Melt Wilton’s candy melts in microwave in 30 second increments, stirring between until completely melted and smooth. Dip tops of cups into melted chocolate and allow them to harden completely.

Make filling by adding all of the filling ingredients together except for the water and sugar.
Beat these on high until smooth and creamy.
Add sugar and beat on high until creamy
Add water until it is a nice spreadable, but not runny, consistency.
Beat until very smooth.
Take about 1/4 out and color with yellow food color gel.
Pipe white filling into cups 1st and then add a fun yellow “yolk” on top.
Enjoy!!

My thoughts: These are so0000 yummy. If you want to save time, skip the chocolate dip on the edges. This cookie recipe is just so tasty- and so versatile. I’ve used it for so many things now. Your family will gobble these up (once you convince the kids they aren’t really eggs!) I hope you enjoy them! ~r

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Easter Mini-Cheesecakes

Posted on March 22, 2013 by Ruthanne

These colorful mini-cheesecakes are made with malted milk ball eggs and have a sugar cookie crust…yum!

I love seasonal candy. I love Cadbury eggs at Easter and Tim Tams at Christmas and conversation hearts at Valentines Day….but the Whopper brand malted milk ball eggs are the best. Did any of you use the outside shell as colorful “lipstick” as a kid? So fun! Crunch them up in a whipped cheesecake and put them in a fun Mini Cheesecake Pan for a dessert that will make everyone smile!

INGREDIENTS: (makes 12 mini cheesecakes)

One Nestle Sugar Cookie Dough Bar (the refrigerated dough that is scored into 24 squares)
8 oz. of Philadelphia Cream Cheese (softened)
1/3 c. granulated sugar
2 t. vanilla
1 (8 oz) container of Cool Whip
2 bags (10 oz. each) of Whopper’s Robin Eggs (I used mini’s, but I’m sure the full size would work fine too.) You could use regular Whopper candies to get the same flavors when the seasonal Robin’s Eggs are not available.

DIRECTIONS:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Prepare pan by placing the metal disks into each cup (the Mini Cheesecake Pan comes with metal disks that sit at the bottom of each cup- like the bottom of a spring form pan!)
Break apart 1/2 of cookie dough bar. (This recipe makes 12 cheesecakes but the bar contains 24 cookies. You can double this recipe and make 24 cheesecakes or just make the other 12 cookies another time.)
Roll each cookie dough square into a ball and put it into a greased cup in the mini cheesecake pan.
Bake at 350 for 12-14 minutes.
Cool completely.
In a mixing bowl, cream together softened cream cheese and sugar.
Add vanilla.
Smash one full bag of Malted Milk Chocolate Eggs. I put them in a ziplock , placed them on a cutting board and hit them with a hammer until they were in pieces about the size of mini chocolate chips.
Fold about 2/3 of Cool Whip and the one bag of smashed eggs into the cream cheese mixture.
Spoon cheesecake mixture into a large zip-top bag. Clip a large piece of one corner off and pipe filling evenly over each cooled cookie crust.
Use a knife or spatula to smooth tops of cheesecakes flat across top of pan.
Freeze for about 3-4 hours (or overnight)
Remove from freezer, pop cheesecakes out by pushing up on the bottom of each cup. (This took a little practice for me- you have to push it up high enough to grab it by the cookie part.)
Remove the metal disk from the crust.
Pipe remaining 1/3 of Cool Whip on top of each cheesecake and decorate with malted milk chocolate eggs as desired
Keep refrigerated until serving.

My thoughts: These are a yummy, colorful and fun Easter treat! They go together fast too- which is always a bonus for me. You can make these in a muffin tin, if you don’t want to invest in the mini-cheesecake pan- but mine has been a great addition to my kitchen- so many fun things to make in it!!! Hope you enjoy these fun little treats!!! ~r