Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Easter chick cookies

Inspired by the very talented Maki Ogawa's cute little chick cookies, I decided to make my own version, and we all know how that goes....

While searching for a ball shaped cookie recipe, I found a recipe for Snowball Cookies at The Baker Who Cooks and thought the kids would love the surprise of the chocolate inside.  However, I wanted to make mini-cookies, so I exchanged the Hershey Kiss for butterscotch chips.
(I also made some non-chick cookies with white and milk chocolate chips inside).
 
Some notes on the process:
* As I was rolling the dough into balls, I realized that I could use the pointed end of the butterscotch chip as the chicks beak.

* For the eyes, I melted some semi-sweet chocolate chips in a bowl, and used a ziplock bag as a pastry bag to dot on the eyes...not the greatest method, but it worked okay.

* To make the nest, I just used the left over melted chocolate to scribble onto the plate in a nest shape.  I then put it in the freezer for a half hour or so to harden.  Very easy!

* Maki used chocolate pens to decorate the eyes and beaks...but I had never heard of such a thing...so I looked on Amazon and found this cool product - Cuisipro Food Decorating Pen,  which looked like it could be very useful.

*  The cookie recipe calls for nuts, which I didn't have, so I just omitted them. (I don't get too hung up on the details when baking, but luckily it worked out this time.) 

* The recipe also does not use eggs, which makes it a good one to remember late at night when you have a sudden craving for something sweet but don't have any eggs...and let's be honest, how often does a lack of eggs in the house thwart all plans of making a decadent midnight treat.

The kids loved the little chicks, and devoured the entire batch in about an hour.  I think it was partly because I obviously wasn't monitoring them too closely and partly because the cookies were so small it made them very more-ish and hard to keep track of how many you had actually eaten.  
Oh well, that just means no cookies for me for breakfast tomorrow ;)


Below is the step-by-step process:
1. Divide up the cookie dough
2. Roll into ball shape
3. Push butterscotch chip into the center
4. Roll the dough around the chip
5. Make sure the top end of the chip sticks out slightly to form the beak




I made some plain ones, too, with chocolate chips and white chocolate chips



update: linking here

15 comments:

  1. stopping by from trendy treehouse

    xoxo
    bB

    please stop by and say hi
    www.itsybitsybrianna.wordpress.com

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  2. Oh my! These look DELICIOUS and CUTE and EASY to make.. 3 big pluses in my book!

    And thank you for linking up to Kids Get Crafty - always appreciated :-)

    Maggy

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  3. These look great! I'll have to try them! Thanks for linking up to NOBH and sharing this sweet treat!

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  4. Those are too cute! Visting from http://holidaysnobs.blogspot.com/. We are your newest follower!

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  5. Almost too cute to eat! I love the little nest - it's the perfect touch.

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  6. How cute. I know some little boys who are going to love these. I am new to your site and have spent some time browsing through your earlier entries. I really like the food and recipes you feature here and I'll definitely be back. I hope you have a great day. Blessings...Mary

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  7. Thanks so much for linking up your cuteness. I'm featuring these on 4/12. So cute!

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  8. These are so cute! I love the nest too.

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  9. Those are TOOOO Cute! I love them!

    Thanks so much for sharing this at my For the Kids Friday Link Party! I appreciate you stopping by. I will be posting this week's link party shortly. I'd love to see what you have to share this week!

    Hope to see you soon!
    :)rachel @ http://SunScholars.blogspot.com

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  10. Saw you on Petite Hermine and had to stop by - these are so cute and look SOOOOOOOO yummy! I totally want to make them now! Yum!

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