My husband is a HUGE New York Giants fan so Connor and I were excited to surprise him with these cookie cups last week for his birthday.
Here is how I made these fun treats:
I started by making chocolate chip cookies in a mini muffin pan.
While they were in the oven I made the little footballs: I printed out a row of small footballs, placed the picture under the wax paper (you can’t really see it in the picture, but they are there), melted chocolate candy melts in a decorating bag, and squeezed over the image to form football shapes. Then I melted white candy melts to make the laces.
Once the cookies were cool, I iced them with my favorite buttercream icing recipe:
Mix 1 cup unsalted butter, 3 cups confectioners sugar, 1 tablespoon vanilla extract and 2 tablespoons milk until blended.
Then I dipped the iced cookies in green sugar sprinkles.
To make the cupcake/cookie toppers, I made, printed and cut out these images. Then I cut out larger circles with red cardstock. I taped the NY Giants image to the red circle with a toothpick in between.
Top cookie bites with toppers and chocolate footballs. Then enjoy these yummy treats!
Happy Monday everyone! I hope everyone has a great week!!
Comments
Betsy says
Go, Big Blue!!
Nikki says
So cute! We are crossing our fingers that Eli will do it again!
Kristi McInerney says
Hi Kara–I tagged you in a post today!
Love,
Kristi at Keeping up with Kristi
cathy says
kara, my son is in the Navy. He is on the USS Enterprise in Norfolk, VA.
Love your blog.
ck
Rachel says
so glad i stumbled on your post. very cute giants toppers, perfect for our superbowl party. My hubby’s a huge giants fanatic as well, we even named our first son, Eli… = )
april@gingerbread says
What a great idea! I really like the chocolate footballs! I hope you will link up with me here:
http://www.thegingerbreadblog.com/2012/01/sweet-saturday-link-party-v23.html