If you know me at all, then you know that a lot of the time, I don't like putting much effort into things that don’t require it (i.e. things that aren’t serious, life altering, etc.). If I can take the easy route and still get maximum results, I'm all for it. (Note: I am not an advocate for pure laziness in every day life.) However, sometimes you just don't have the time, patience, or desire to exert full energy, so you need to improvise.
Baking is among one of the things I casually enjoy, but despise doing. It's messy, incredibly time consuming, and honestly, not always worth it. It's much easier to go to a bakery and purchase whatever it is you're trying to make. However, sometimes what you're craving isn't always available in stores. Cue my (unfortunate) need to bake.
If you haven't heard, cookie shot glasses are taking the baking world by storm. It's exactly what it sounds like: chocolate chip cookies shaped into shot glasses and filled with milk. Sounds easy, right? Sure, if you have the correct baking materials and ingredients and aren't as lazy as I am.
When I first read about these cookie shots, I noticed that all of these posts and websites had something in common: the cookies were made from scratch. Yeah right, like I have the time, patience, or will to wash the dishes and utensils. So I took the lazy route, and (spoiler alert) I didn't fail.
Jessica's Lazy Ice Cream Cookie Bowls
Prep Time: <10 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Taste: 9/10
Clean Up/Mess: Minimal
Instead of making the dough from scratch, I bought ready-to-bake sugar and chocolate chip cookies.
Typically, you'd need a popover pan to mold the dough into the shot glass shape. Classic Jessica doesn't have a popover pan, and is completely against buying one solely for this little experiment, so I improvised. I figured it'd be easiest just to shape the dough over a shot glass and bake it (duh). But I learned that it's (apparently) dangerous to put shot glasses in the oven because that type of glass can't withstand the heat (lame). So instead, I used a muffin pan and decided to make cookie bowls! Ah, lazy baking at its finest.
After reshaping the dough, I placed the muffin tin in the oven for two ten-minute increments. Before they had a chance to cool, I carved out the middles of the bowls. I personally like my cookies to be undercooked, so if that’s not your thing, put them back in the oven and check on them periodically.
Now, here’s the sad part. Even though I sprayed the bottom of the tins before putting in the dough, two of my cookie bowl babies didn’t make it *tear*. But the two that did turned out pretty darn good. They may not look the prettiest, but that wasn't my objective anyway.
The bottoms of the bowls were perfectly soft and chewy (because I undercooked them), and the sides were slightly crispy. The only thing left to do was to add a scoop of ice cream! Also, shout out to my best friend for taking these dope pictures of our experiment and making me want to bake these again right now.
Now stop drooling and go make yourself some of these ice cream bowls!
