Do you ever get an idea that just sticks to the back of your brain until you act on it? Well, I know I do. Yep, that would be me, The crazy inspirationalist (<- my favorite made-up word for the day). Can you imagine anything better on a Sunday than these?

You’ve probably seen this idea floating around the web, but probably not with snickerdoodles! I don’t remember when it was exactly, but the first time I came across a similar idea, it got lodged in my brain and I’ve been planning to make them for my cookie week since early October. (That’s a long time considering most of my recipes have had about 3.5 minutes of forethought prior to me making them.) Major props to the first person to think of making an edible cookie cup for milk, it’s mind-blowingly brilliant!

So I knew I wanted to make them but I didn’t know how I was going to do it. I’ve seen a few people using pop-over molds to bake cookie-shots in, but as I don’t have one I had to find another way. First I tried making foils molds using the neck of a bottle to shape it, but my cookies just kept crumbling or oozing off when I baked them. Then I tried cupcake pans, which worked fine, but I wanted a more shot-glass-like shape. I realized by the second day of testing (that’s right, these took me multiple days to perfect!) that I needed to have a mold that wouldn’t allow the cookies to spread much so that they would hold their shape.

What I ended up with was some simple items that most of you probably already have, so yay for not having to buy fancy equipment! I used wine corks, foil, and some generic, tall juice glasses. Let me break it down; You make the dough and roll it into extra-large balls, grease the inside of the cups, flatten dough balls and dip in cinnamon/sugar, wrap a cork in a layer of foil, shape your dough around the cork, drop it into the cup, bake at 350 for about 10 minutes, then coat the inside with chocolate, done! Here’s some pics to help you grasp the concept.

Okay, and here’s one of the key steps that you cannot skip; grease the cups well. As is usually the case for me, I learned this lesson the hard way….over and over. Let’s just say my brothers got to have snickerdoodle crumb milkshakes for a day or two.

I also tried pouring milk into the cookies without chocolate but the milk finds its way right through the cookie. The chocolate acts as an inner coating and when you pour in the ice-cold milk it hardens it even more. As it is, they will still leak if you either don’t get a sealed layer of chocolate inside or leave them holding milk too long.

The latter shouldn’t be a problem since you can probably handle devouring them quickly, but the step of coating the inside can be slightly tricky so be prepared to have a few flops when you’re practicing. I don’t recommend trying these if you aren’t prepared to have a few fails, because it’s a trial and error thing, but if you do try them, I can suggest some great ideas for using the disasters. For example, cookie crumb crusts for your holiday pies, cookie truffle balls, milkshakes, or crumbled in trifles. Those are just a few ideas off the top of my head but I’m sure you could think of plenty more.

I hope you guys don’t mind the overload of pictures, maybe someday I’ll learn to control myself better on this, but I was just so excited about these! There isn’t a lot of room for making cuts when spreading holiday cheer to the world is foremost on your mind Bottoms up guys!

Recipe available upon request to the first Steemian friend who says today's words : "Doodle-Shots"

ALL CONTENT IS MINE AND ORIGINAL! All of these food photos were taken with my Nikon D5300 and my favorite Lens, the Nikon AF-S FX NIKKOR 50mm f/1.8G. You can find out more in my INTRO POST.

And, by the way, to all the minnows out there, my intro post did a huge $0.21. The key to success on Steemit is to be consistent and persistent.