What is even better than cute dishware?
Cute dishware you can eat!
Say hello to a brand new line of chocolate-chip cookie dough dishware, hot from the oven and coming soon to Pier One stores everywhere! And then quickly say goodbye. They won’t last long.
Above, topped with my homemade “Rated R” Ice Cream.
The best part is when you finish all of the ice cream and realize there is still a big, fat, soft, gooey chocolate-chip cookie waiting to be devoured!
Like any self-respecting cookie lover, I fell in love with the concept of chocolate chip cookie cups the second I first saw it on Pinterest. The idea was to take any cookie dough and bake it on the bottoms of muffin tins, like so:
Unfortunately for me, with the particular cookie dough I used, this was a massive fail.
My chocolate-chip cookie bowls—based on this eggless cookie dough recipe—stuck to the greased tins, spread over the sides, and crumbled completely when I tried to remove them. But I wasn’t giving up…What does an independent girl in her mid-twenties do when disaster strikes in the kitchen?
She calls her mother, of course!
Mothers always know best:
Chocolate Chip Cookie Bowls
(makes 17-19)
- 2 cans white beans or garbanzos (drained and rinsed) (500g total, once drained)
- 1 cup quick oats (85g)
- 1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce (60g)
- 3 tbsp oil (canola, veg, or coconut) (30g)
- 2 tsp pure vanilla extract (8g)
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 and 1/2 cups brown sugar (For a sugar-free version, use this recipe.) (315g)
- 1 cup chocolate chips (160g)
- macaroni, beans, or rice to fill bowls (this won’t be eaten)
Preheat oven to 350 F and grease muffin tins. Blend all ingredients (except the chips) very well in a high-quality food processor (not a blender). Mix in chips, scoop into the individual muffin tins, and use a spoon or knife to make a well in the middle and spread up the sides like a bowl. (See above photos.) Pour uncooked noodles or beans or rice into each well, then bake 18-19 minutes. Set aside and do not attempt to go around the sides with a knife and then remove from the tins for at least 10 minutes, as the cookie bowls continue to cook and firm up as they cool.
(Some readers have had success with a blender, but I did not. Try that at your own risk, and know the results will be better in a high-quality food processor such as a Cuisinart. Alternatively, you can probably use any cookie-dough recipe with this “macaroni” idea. Just adjust baking time accordingly.)
View Cookie Dough Bowls Nutrition Facts
Do you ever ask your mom for cooking advice?
When I was younger, I often relied on the cooking wisdom of my mother and both of my grandmothers. However, their wealth of knowledge in traditional baking proved less and less useful as I began experimenting more with alternative ingredients and cooking methods. Now, instead of them teaching me, I teach them. Thanks to me, my grandmother can now make a mean peanut butter cookie—with no eggs or butter whatsoever!
I love the new blog look! And I am a total font nerd- and have to say- I even love the font right here for the comments box. 🙂 (And the header is adorable)
I will DEFINITELY have to make these edible bowls of goodness. And I am very intrigued by your recipe! I’ve made cookies using chickpeas many times- but I think I’m going to try white beans!
I don’t call my mom for cooking advice… let’s just say that the kitchen isn’t exactly her favorite place to be. 🙂
I can only see white in the header. I really want to try these, as well as MANY of your recipes. 🙂
Still can’t see the header, I waited to see if it would show up but it hasn’t 🙁
Would I be able to use my Ninja to blend the ingredients? I have a food processor too, but I don’t know how to work it :-(.
I didn’t have success in a vita-mix, so I really can’t say.
I used my ninja, and it worked.
Probably better to use those large size cupcake tins. Get a bigger bowl which means more ice cream. 🙂
Header is white.
AWESOME recipe idea! Thank you!
LOL, what about a mini bundt cake pan?
Love this idea.
Yes, I can totally see your header in full colour.
Have a great Thursday!!
Hi Katie! I can see the header just as it appears in the picture you posted of the home page, but the page isn’t all nice and compact like yours is in the picture. It’s all spread out and weird. In order for me to see the about me picture link on the right side I have to scroll all the way to the right until it appears. Also, note on the nutrition facts. I looked at a can of chickpeas and it has 3.5 servings. So two cans would have 7. And if each serving is 130 calories that means the total for the chickpeas would be 910, but in the nutrition fact you have it as 546? I’m not ultra concerned for the calorie count, I was just curious! And same for the oil, 1 T is 120 so three is 360, but the 30 grams you have listed is 265 which would be more like 2 1/2 T. Okay the oil one makes a bit more sense in that the grams may not match up perfectly with the tablespoons, but the beans not so much.
Ohhhhhh wait I got it! I’m betting the nutrition label on the chickpeas is including the liquid so it’s probably saying that 130g of chickpeas plus water is 130 calories! Because with the liquid it only takes one can to make 500 grams where as without the liquid I suppose it takes two cans! Wow I’m so weird….sorry I’m a math person and when I saw that it wasn’t quite matching up I just had to do it haha.
I kept thinking about it and came to the conclusion that if you don’t have cans and are using chickpeas you cooked yourself and you don’t have a scale, then you need a little over a cup or 1 cup and and 2 T of the dry measure to get the amount required for the recipe 🙂 That sure got my mind jogging this morning haha
Wait no, correction, 1 cup is fine! Okay no one probably cares but a cup should be fine for dry measure. Cups and grams are so hard to correlate! I see why you mostly use gram amounts!
I’m completely addicted to Pinterest, and always get bummed when my attempts don’t work out quite as well as the original (search for “nailed it” in Pinterest and it will bring up lots of funny attempts others have made to recreate their favorite Pinterest ideas)…I recently tried to make a homeopathic face mask that turned out as a stinky soup that wasn’t going anywhere NEAR my face! Oh and I LOVE your new blog header. Very simple/clean, but clever. 🙂
Your header shows as white. Love your mom’s idea! Thanks for sharing, especially the failed attempt. I am a visual person and now I will definitely remember not to try the bottom of a muffin pan with gluten free dough. Just a tip once you use rice or macaroni in the oven like this you can’t use it for anything but this. I check your email first thing when I get on the internet. It is always fun, has a new recipe I can adapt to my needs, or just makes me smile. Thank you!
I can see it just fine! Thanks for the great dessert idea for my boys. They will love it!!
This is probably one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen — my world has been totally rocked!
I only have pinto beans and red lentils. OH CRUEL WORLD.
That is so clever and yummilishish!(random word!!) I’ll have to make it soon:)
Hmmm…I only go to my mom for cooking advice once I’ve exploded something in the microwave or melted something in the oven accidentially. that’s when she tells me that you aren’t supposed to put plastic in the oven:) (that happened back when i was eight. I was a pretty dumb eight year old, I guess:))