Hot Chocolate Cookie Cups

I love the idea of desserts that look like inanimate objects. Like a cake that is shaped like a car or the famous chocolate frog from the Harry Potter books. Sure, the ones I make won’t jump off my hand or vanish before I get a bite off it. So we thought we should give something like that a try.

That is when we found out about these cute tiny chocolate filled cookie cups giving the pretense of hot chocolate. The ones we found were too small though. I could easily fit in 4 or 5 of them in my mouth in a go. Haha! Finally, we decided to use a muffin pan and flip it over to have a larger size and the shape of a wide mug, with candy canes for handles.

Getting candy canes was not an easy feat. You would actually think that getting candy canes in November would be an easy thing, considering that its so close to Christmas. I had to go through about 5 stores including couple of dollar stores before finding it in a tiny shop next my puppy’s vet. Of all places, that’s where I found it.

We used melted white chocolate to use as a glue to stick the candy canes to the cups. That did not quite go as what we hoped for since it could not hold the weight of the cookie cups. That reminded me of this episode from The Great Canadian Baking Show, where one of the bakers used caramel for gluing together gingerbread house. To say it works well would be an understatement. It works like magic. The hold is so firm and enough to hold the weight of the cups. Only problem was that the caramel needed to be heated up again and again since it solidifies so quickly, that you are left with very little time to work with it. Enough of that for now! Let’s do this now.