Tulipes

Cookie Cup Dessert Shells

Preparation info
  • Makes

    12 to 18

    cookie cups, depending on their diameter
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Cookies Unlimited

By Nick Malgieri

Published 2000

  • About

These are the beautiful cookie cups in which to serve such elegant desserts as delicate ice creams, sherbets, and mousses. They are essentially a large, round, paper-thin cookie, removed from the pan immediately after they come out of the oven and molded in a cup or bowl to make them into containers. They aren’t particularly difficult to make. The whole trick is just to bake only a few at a time so you can pry them off the pan and mold them quickly, before they begin to harden. This is defi