Last week my brother came back home from a bicycle ride, he had a coffee in a cone during a break. He was so impressed and bagged me to make a plan somehow to cup his beloved espresso in a cone or else.
I wasn’t happy with a cone as you cannot put it down. You have to hold it in your hand to fill it up with coffee, that’s not very comfortable. That’s why we decided to look for little tins to bake cups. You can get them but they are very expencive and to buy only one is not really efficent; it would take hours to get them ready. Finally my brother had the idea to cut a pipe in 6 cm pieces. Next day he came back with 4 pieces of a copper pipe with 42 mm diameter. Right away I knead a dough of short pastry, added some vanilla powder and baked 2 samples which you can see below. We decided that 42 mm diameter is too small. So my brother went back to the hardware store and organized 4 copper pipe pieces with 50 mm diameter. That evennig he baked another 4 samples and tried to make the cups thinner. That’s not so easy but he did it. He rolled the dough around a finger and pushed it into the pipe. This size is perfect for a real portion of espresso. The result you can see above. Apropos: Don’t forget to cut a button for the cup – just put the pipe into the dough, the buttom will stick on the pipe.
A coffee in a cookie cup gives you the chance to kill 2 birds with 1 stone. In this case the cup becomes the cookie to the coffee.
