Ganache Filled Cookie Cups

Have you heard about the super popular stand up desks that are trending now?  They're designed to help ease back pain, improve mood, harness joint and muscle movement, boost productivity, increase weight loss, improve mental focus and lower the risk of heart disease.  Why wouldn't I want all of those things for myself? 

I just got the ULTIMATE stand up desk in my kitchen.  😅 When you're in the food business and you work from home - your kitchen island IS your desk.🤷🏻‍♀️ My custom built desk has 32 drawers and 2 outlets.  It's got places for me to store pencils, notebooks, my computer, my camera, all of my cooking utensils and ziploc bags of every shape and size. ✏️ It's a dream. 😁

​I was lucky enough to be able to design my own desk.  If you could design your perfect desk, what would it look like?  Would it have a cutting board drawer and a platform drawer to stand on? 😂 (If you're under 5'2" - I highly would recommend it. 😉) 

​It goes without saying that I do most of my cooking while standing at my desk but I wanted to give myself the option to sit if I needed to.  #whimpyankleissues 😬 So I asked the builder to make me a "knee space".  It's the perfect little nook for a stool - or a George Castanza style nap, if need be.  🤣 So much work went into the designing and building of this island.  ​

I'm still learning how to make the best use of my new desk and forever trying to remember which drawer I put my peeler in.  🤦🏻‍♀️  The more I use it, the more I love it though.  I've only had it for a couple of weeks but it's already become the nucleus of the kitchen.  It's in then literal center of the room and it contains the most essential tools for all of my cooking and baking projects.  

These ganache filled cookie cups were the latest creation to be made at my kitchen desk.  Little chocolate chip cookie cookie cups with dark, rich chocolate ganache. 🍪🍫 Who wouldn't love these?   

Ganache Filled Cookie Cups
Cookie Dough
1 cup butter
1 1/2 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
3 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups mini chocolate chips

​Ganache
1 cup chocolate chips
2 Tablespoons heavy cream

Beat together butter and sugars until light and fluffy. 

Beat in eggs and vanilla.  

Add flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt until just combined. 

Stir in chocolate chips.  

Press balls of dough into greased mini muffin pan and press down in center.

Bake 9-11 minutes at 325.

Gently press cookie centers to make a well.

Cool on wire racks.

Melt chocolate and cream for ganache.  

Pipe or spoon ganache or into cookie.  

Amy's tip of the day:  Make the cookie cups ahead of time and store them in ziploc bags until ready to serve.   Make the ganache and fill the cups just before you're ready to serve them - they'll stay fresher that way.  If you run out of time, pipe canned frosting into these tasty little, edible cups for an even quicker treat.  

Ciao!

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