How To Make Homemade Sugar Cookie Cups
Learn how to make a homemade sugar cookie cups with my easy method! Sugar cookie cups are perfect for holding fillings like frosting, fruit, chocolate ganache, cheesecake filling, pudding, or candy.
Cookie season is just about here.
And while you can and should make your favorites, it’s so much fun to put twists on a classic like sugar cookies.
Sugar cookies are already a holiday staple but baking them into sugar cookie hecups turns them into a fun vessel for fillings like icing, Nutella, candy, fruit, and more.
Plus since they are individual little cups, they are perfect for any holiday gathering or events during other times of the year.
And they are so easy to make, no cookie cutting required!
All you need is a mini muffin tin and you are good to go.
Press the cookie dough into the tins, bake them, let them cool, and then have the kids fill and decorate them!
It’s a sweet treat for the entire family!
Ingredients
To make these sugar cookie cups you only need sugar cookie dough.
You can use your favorite sugar recipe, the refrigerated kind in the tube or a batch of dry mix made to the package instructions.
How to Make
Making homemade sugar cookie cups is so easy!
Just make roughly 1″ balls out of the cookie dough.
Press one ball into the well of a mini muffin tin, using a spoon or rounded tablespoons to press down in the center of the cookie dough to make a crater in the middle of the dough.
Repeat this with all of the dough balls.
Bake the cookie cups at 375 degrees for about 9 minutes or until the cookies are set and lightly golden around the edges.
Take the muffin tin out of the oven and press down again with your tablespoon to help the cups keep their shape.
Let the cups rest for 5 minutes in the tin before transferring them to a wire rack to cool completely.
Once the sugar cookie cups are cool, fill them with your favorite toppings.
Serve and enjoy!
Sugar Cookie Cups Filling Ideas
Sugar cookies cups are so extra fun because they are yummy, edible cups begging you to stuff them full of your favorite sweets.
Ideas for fillings include:
- buttercream
- chopped berries
- pudding
- mini scoops of ice cream
- peanut butter
- candies like mini M&M’s
- sprinkles
Storing
You can store them, unfilled, in a cookie tin on your counter for about a week.
Some fillings, like pudding, don’t store well because they will turn the cookies soggy.
Because of this, I suggest filling the cups just prior to serving them.
Tips and Tricks
- It’s ok if the center of the cups is a little underdone. You just don’t want them to be “doughy.”
- Pressing your spoon into the cooked cup while it’s still hot will put the shape back into the cookies if they’ve puffed at all during the baking process.
- Don’t fill them until they are cooled and you are ready to serve them!
Other Easy Cookie Recipes
Homemade sugar cookie cups are a fun way to turn sugar cookies into an entirely new treat.
Make them and enjoy!
Looking for other cookie recipes?
Try these:
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How To Make Homemade Sugar Cookie Cups
Ingredients
- uncooked sugar cookie dough can be the refrigerated kind or from a dry package and prepared according to the package directions
Instructions
- Roll the dough into roughly 1″ balls and place all the balls into the muffin depressions in a greased mini muffin pan. Lightly press a spoon or rounded tablespoon into the top center of each dough ball to create a crater in the middle.
- Bake the cookie cups at 375 degrees for about 9 minutes. It’s ok if the centers seem a wee bit undercooked as long as they’re not ‘doughy’.
- Again, use your spoon or tablespoon to lightly push down the center again retain the ‘cup’ form.
- Let the cookie cups rest for 5 minutes, before transferring them to a wire rack to continue cooling completely.
- Once cooled they can be filled with whatever filling you want- examples include min scoops of ice cream, frosting, or even pudding.
Notes
- It's ok if the center of the cups is a little underdone. You just don't want them to be "doughy."
- Pressing your spoon into the cooked cup while it's still hot will put the shape back into the cookies if they've puffed at all during the baking process.
- Don't fill them until they are cooled and you are ready to serve them!
