Cookie cups filled with chocolate ganache, styled as little carrot pots

Ingredients

Cookie dough (the pots):

• 3.5 oz softened butter
• 1/3 cup brown sugar
• 0.4 cup granulated sugar
• 1 egg
• 2 cups flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 cup dark chocolate chips

Ganache:

• 1/4 cup hot cream
• 1.7 oz dark chocolate

To decorate:

• 3 Oreos (for the soil)
• 2.8 oz marzipan (for the carrots)
• 1/2 tsp orange food coloring
• herbs (mint, parsley, or carrot tops)

Materials

• muffin tin
• small glasses

Preparation

• Prepare the cookie dough:
  Start by whipping soft butter with brown sugar and white sugar.
• Add the egg, flour, and baking powder and mix well. Finally, add the chocolate chips. Cover and chill for one hour.
  
• Grease a muffin tin and fill the cavities with cookie dough. Hollow out the center of the dough with a tablespoon. Bake in a preheated oven at 390°F (200°C) for 12 minutes.
• Remove from the oven and immediately press a small glass into each cookie to hollow it out and form the pots.
  
• Prepare the carrots:
  Mix the food coloring into the marzipan and shape it into small balls. Roll each ball into a cylinder. Insert a herb on top and make small lines all over to create the ridges of the carrots.
• Prepare the soil:
  Remove the cream from the Oreos and crush the cookies. Heat the cream and mix well with the chopped chocolate to make a ganache.
  
• Fill the hollows of the cookies with ganache and refrigerate for 15 minutes. Then cover with crushed Oreos.
• Plant the carrots in the pots, and there you have it: it’s time to harvest them and feed them to the Easter Bunny!
  

Observations

What can I use instead of chocolate in cookies?
You can replace the dark chocolate chips with chopped chocolate, nuts, or praline. You can also use milk or white chocolate instead of dark chocolate.

What can I use instead of Oreos?
You can make a cocoa crumble to create the soil in your carrot pot. You can replace some of the flour in a classic crumble recipe with cocoa. Find our best recipe here.

What can I use instead of marzipan?
You can make the carrots with fondant, or use real baby carrots just to decorate the dessert.

How should I store these little cookie pots?
Store them in an airtight container in the fridge for 5 days.

Can I freeze these little cookie pots?
Yes, you can freeze them. Just be sure not to wrap them all together so they’re easier to take out later!

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