Oh I love these containers, they are designed as ice cream containers but their uses in the portable sweet food industry are endless(oh I am sure you can put savoury things in these but I just do sweet). Filled with layers of cake, cookies, mousse, jelly, fruit and of course ice cream are just some of the things you can fill them with. The quality is fantastic and they are completely reusable which is always a bonus for a container. Due to the fact that these are see through creating pretty layers is in my opinion a must, and if you want to go the extra mile you can bling up the container too, pop a personal label on and it makes the perfect little gift.
The size of these are approximately 8cm high and 5cm diameter, so I would say a single portion. These come in 4 parts and you need to assemble them. I have found that taking off/leaving off the handle is convenient when working with them. Alternatively if you have some sort of stand/cookie cooling rack to place them in so they stand upright works great too. You can of course buy the correct stands for these babies.
Ensure that you have the push part at the bottom before filling - if you fill layers and pull down as you work it will smear on the inside of your container and wont look as nice. Same goes for filling these to the top, there is a little bit of space in the lid but if you over fill you will squash the top and yes it will ruin the visual effect - however they will still be delish to eat.
There are many ways of filling these tubes, but I will share a little bit of what I do with them.
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| Coconut biscuit, cream caramel layers |
Make your own ice cream or like me - using bought vanilla ice cream add crushed berries, caramel, crushed cookies, chocolate bits or anything you like - create your own flavor.
Using a large piping tip and bag Pipe your ice cream into the containers - decorate the top, pop the lid on and place in the freezer.
I have found that 2 iced mini cupcakes fit in these perfectly.
When I fill these I make sure the push up is at the bottom of the container, pop in a mini cupcake, then using a piping bag and tip of your choice pipe the icing, place the second cupcake on top and pipe more icing, decorate as desired. pop the lid on and you're done - remember be aware of the the space on top so that you don't end up squashing the icing - although it will still taste delish.
For cake
Bake your desired cake in a brownie pan or any other pan - the idea is that you are baking layers of cake that you will be cutting into little circles. Once the cake is baked and cooled you can begin cutting out your circles, if you like you can level your cake, that way all you circles of cake will be the same thickness. If I have baked a beautifully risen cake I cut out my circles then halve them so that they are not too thick. I use a 4.5cm circle cutter, but you can use the container to cut out your circles too. So same principle, layers of cake and filling all the way to the top. Done
Remember cookies do not have the same texture of cake so they can't be just squeezed in to these containers - they must be the right size - cookies can scratch the sides of the containers and well as I have said the visual appearance of these is rather important - so cut the cookies the correct size - smaller is better in this case.
So cut your desired cookie using a 4cm round cutter - if your cookie recipe spreads a lot while baking take this into account - your baked cookie should not be bigger than about 4.5cm. Decorate your cookies as desired, once dried you can fill the containers. Now when I fill the containers with cookies I do things a bit differently, I push the inner part up so it's near the top of the container and as I fill I gradually pull it down.
Layer of sweets/lollies/candy
Layer of cookie
Topped with a mini cupcake
Perfect party treat!!
I hope that you have got some inspiration here, there are so many incredible things that you can do with these to create a personal, delicious treat.
Happy baking and creating.
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