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Bake-a-Bowl Pan: Crispy Cinnamon Butter Cookie Bowls

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Crispy Cinnamon Butter Cookie Dessert Bowls

Disclosure: This post is sponsored by Good Cook. I have received a Sweet Creations Bake a Bowl pan. I have been compensated for this post. I am a Good Cook Kitchen Expert blogger selected by Good Cook to represent their brand. I do not receive a commission for Good Cook products purchased through my website. All opinions about Good Cook are my own.

 

 One of my favorite perks of being a Good Cook Kitchen Expert blogger is getting to try out many of the new kitchen gadgets Good Cook releases. This week, it was my pleasure to play with the new Sweet Creations Bake-A-Bowl pan! The Good Cook Bake-A-Bowl is a two-piece nonstick pan set. The lower pan holds whatever you’d like to bake a bowl of — brownie mix, cake mix, even mini meatloaf bowls are fair game! The upper pan nests inside the lower pan, ensuring that your bowls retain their bowl shape in the oven. I can’t wait to show you what I made with my pan, which we’ll get to in a moment, because… One of my readers will win this Good Cook Bake-A-Bowl pan! Are you ready to have some fun in the kitchen? To enter, simply post a reply in the comments! This Good Cook giveaway begins today, May 1, 2014, and runs for one week. The giveaway will end on May 7, 2013 at 11:59pm CST, and on May 8, one winner will be chosen via a random number generator!

Good Cook asked its bloggers to create a recipe with the Bake-A-Bowl pan. I immediately pictured my children happily enjoying ice cream sundaes in crunchy cookie bowls! So, I created:

Crispy Cinnamon Butter Cookie Bowls
Ingredients:
2 cups flour
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
A pinch of salt
1 cup softened butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg

Preheat the oven to 350°. Whisk the flour, salt and cinnamon together in one bowl. In another bowl, with an electric mixer, beat the butter and sugar until creamy. Add egg and mix. Then, add the dry ingredients slowly until well mixed.

Use a spatula to fill each cup of the Bake-A-Bowl lower pan with batter up to the fill line in the pan. Nest the top pan into the bottom pan. Bake for 20 minutes.

Carefully remove the top of the Bake-a-Bowl pan and reveal the cookie bowls. I let the bowls sit in the pan for about five minutes before gently lifting with a spatula and moving them to a baking rack to cool. The cookie bowls will be soft when you remove them from the pan, but they will harden and become crunchy as they cool. This recipe will make enough dough for nine bowls – one batch of 6, and a second batch of three. (You can always roll the extra dough into balls and bake as traditional cookies if you don’t wish to have nine bowls.) Serve with a scoop of ice cream inside each bowl. Yum!

More about Good Cook’s Bake-A-Bowl Pan: Create endless dessert and appetizer possibilities with this 2-piece nested bowl shaped bake pan. Great for creative bakers! Completely nonstick lets you easily release baking treats without breaking its shape. The Bake-A-Bowl pan retails for $34.99, but right now it’s on sale for $24.99 — $10 off. Good Cook is also running a promo where you’ll receive a free ice cram scoop when you buy the pan. Get another 25% off when you shop on www.goodcook.com for the Good Cook Sweet Creations items using code “BAKEBOWL”. The Good Cook Bake-A-Bowl is also available at Bed, Bath and Beyond. Follow Good Cook on Twitter @GoodCookcom.

UPDATE: Giveaway has ended! The winner is Ynotpat!

Legal: This giveaway is sponsored by Good Cook. Responding to this post with a comment qualifies readers to enter. Duplicate posts do not increase chances of winning. The contest began at midnight CST on May 1, 2014 and will end at 11:59pm CST on May 7, 2014. One winners will be chosen via random-number generator on May 8, 2014 and announced the same day. Winner will receive one Good Cook Sweet Creations Bake-a-Bowl pan as shown above. Prizes, information, and giveaway have been provided by Good Cook. I have received a Good Cook Sweet Creations Bake-a-Bowl pan, as well as information to help promote the product as part of this giveaway. I have been compensated for this giveaway. Winner will be contacted via the Private Messaging feature of JillCataldo.com and via email. If a winner does not reply to the message within 48 hours of notification, that winner will forfeit the prize and a new winner will be chosen. Fulfillment will be handled by Good Cook. Giveaway is only open to residents of the United States. Odds of winning are determined by number of eligible entries received. I am a Good Cook Kitchen Expert blogger selected by Good Cook to represent their brand. I do not receive a commission for Good Cook products purchased through my website. All opinions about Good Cook are my own. Good luck to everyone!

Comments

  8. I love love love to bake. Just baked cupcakes last night. These look so fun to experiment with baking.

  9. I just got married and this would be an awesome addition to my new home!

  10. That looks like so much fun and so many different options. Would love to win! Thanks for the opportunity! :)

  12. I know my DH thinks I have every baking dish known to man, but I don’t have this one! :)

  14. My daughter and I would have a blast making brownie bowls, sundae bowls, etc etc etc!

  15. This looks like so much fun and a lot less work than another companies idea I have done to make mini bowls. My daughters love to bake and try new things. Hope we win.

  17. My teenage daughters love to bake and this would be a great thing for them to experiment with. Thanks Jill!

  19. I love to bake! Thanks for the chance to win this and try something new!

  32. This is something I would enjoy using with my granddaughter, who loves to be in the kitchen with me.

  34. Can’t wait to try the recipe! My kids would love helping me make these!

  38. Love the ice cream bowl idea! I bet there’s all sorts of super fun things I could make with this pan.

  51. Would love to win this! Baking is my favorite hobby besides couponing!

  54. What a super idea. Instead of using it to bake cookie-like things, I would love to try it with a turkey meatloaf bowl, filled with either stuffing or mashed potatoes. Also, mini lasagnas would be awesome, although it would take some thought as to how to combine the ingredients to successfully bake it to perfection! Game on!

  56. I would love to have something like this. Have recently got into cooking/baking more

  61. I too love to try new gadgets kintchen. My family can’t go out to dinners due to our sick child so making special treats at home for the family, kind of helps balance things. Love yummy treatsx

  62. I too love to try new gadgets kintchen. My family can’t go out to dinners due to our sick child so making special treats at home for the family, kind of helps balance things. Love yummy treatsx

  66. My daughters and I would love to win this! Your cookie bowl looks delicious!

  67. Would love one! (Or two…actually I might go ahead and buy one right now!)

  71. All of those pictures are making me hungry! Also, I never would have thought to bake a bowl!

  74. My daughter had a cupcake party I know she would love to have a Bake-A-Bowl party.

  76. Those bowel things look like they would be prefect for just about any desert or even some appetizers. They look like they would be fun to use for lots of applications sweet or savory you name it.Great way to change up a brownie alamode .Oh what fun I could have with them.

  81. What a great idea to do cookies for ice cream. I’m picturing a healthier version of mini-taco salads. How awesome would those be? Mini quiches, Soup bites ….I’m getting hungry just thinking of the endless possibilities!

  84. I don’t claim to be the best baker… but ALWAYS love trying new gadgets!!

  87. My fiancé would love this. I want to serve cake bowl ice cream at our engagement party!

  88. What a fun novelty. I wish I had one for last Easter. It would have made cute brownie birds nests to stick Peeps into!

  93. …and I am a collector of baking pans and pots (was tempted recently to buy yet another slow cooker that was 7 quarts). But I do have room for this one!

    This recipe would pair well with a home-made rum infused rice pudding.

  94. I am in such need of new cupcake pans. My husband used my old ones for organizing his nails and screws without asking me.

  95. I remember YEARS ago making cookie cups, to have scoops of ice cream added later, for my best friend’s wedding shower. Wow, it would have been SO much easier using this pan :)

  96. Oh, these look awesome! The possibilities for creations are endless! Hope I win :D

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