Christmas Tree Cookie Cups
Turn sugar cookie dough and buttercream frosting into these adorable and unique Christmas Tree Cookie Cups for the Holidays.
We love cookie cups and we think that these Christmas Tree Cookie Cups are such a fun way to take the traditional frosted sugar cookie to the next level. They definitely will be sure to dress up your Christmas dessert table or to wow your friends at your Christmas Cookie Exchange Party.
How to Make the Cookie Cups
Step 1: Our Christmas Tree Cookie Cups start with our delicious Sugar Cookie Recipe. These sugar cookies taste amazing and the dough always keeps its shape. You can find the recipe here.
Step 2: Roll out the cookie dough as you would for traditional sugar cookies, however you want the rolled-out dough to be on the thinner side. Use a round cookie cutter to cut out some circles.
Step 3: Lay the cookie dough circles onto the top of an opening in a mini muffin tin. Press the center of the cookie dough down and mold it around the inside of the cup of the muffin tin. Bake the cookie cups in a 350-degree oven for 5-6 minutes. You don’t want the edges or the outside of the cookie cup to get too dark so watch the cookies carefully around the 4-minute mark and take them out before they start browning. Let the cookie cups cool completely.
Step 4: Melt 15-20 Wilton Bright White Candy Melts in the microwave, stopping to stir the candy every 15 seconds. (You could also use White Chocolate Chips.)
Step 5: Dip the tops of the Cookie Cups into the melted candy melts and then dip them into your Christmas sprinkles.
Step 6: Allow the candy coating on the cookie cups to completely harden before filling the cookie cups with frosting.
How to Make the Frosting
Step 7: Next you need to make up a batch of our Best Buttercream Frosting. Tint it green. We used Wilton Yellow and Blue Food Coloring to make a pretty Christmas Tree green color.
Putting it All Together
Step 8: Using a pastry bag and a Wilton 1M frosting tip, fill the cookie cup with a swirl of buttercream frosting – this is the “tree”. Finally, add a few of your Christmas Sprinkles on the frosting tree as your ornaments! Super adorable and so very delicious!
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Christmas Tree Cookie Cups
Turn sugar cookie dough and buttercream frosting into these adorable and unique Christmas Tree Cookie Cups for the Holidays.
Ingredients
- 1 batch of our The Best Sugar Cookie Recipe
- 1 batch of our The Best Buttercream Frosting
- 1 bag Wilton Bright White Candy Melts
- Green Food Coloring
- Christmas Sprinkles
Instructions
- Make a batch of our The Best Sugar Cookie Recipe
- Roll out the cookie dough as you would for traditional sugar cookies, however you want the rolled-out dough to be on the thinner side. Use a round cookie cutter to cut out some circles.
- Lay the cookie dough circles onto the top of an opening in a mini muffin tin. Press the center of the cookie dough down and mold it around the inside of the cup of the muffin tin.
- Bake the cookie cups in a 350-degree oven for 5-6 minutes. You don’t want the edges or the outside of the cookie cup to get too dark so watch the cookies carefully around the 4-minute mark and take them out before they start browning. Let the cookie cups cool completely.
- Melt 15-20 Wilton Bright White Candy Melts in the microwave, stopping to stir the candy every 15 seconds. (You could also use White Chocolate Chips.)
- Dip the tops of the Cookie Cups into the melted candy melts and then dip them into your Christmas sprinkles.
- Allow the candy coating on the cookie cups to completely harden before filling the cookie cups with frosting.
- Next, you need to make up a batch of our Best Buttercream Frosting. Tint it green. We used Wilton Yellow and Blue Food Coloring to make a pretty Christmas Tree green color.
- Using a pastry bag and a Wilton 1M frosting tip, fill the cookie cup with a swirl of buttercream frosting – this is the "tree". Finally, add a few of your Christmas Sprinkles on the frosting tree as your ornaments!
Did you Make this Recipe? Leave a review below, then snap a picture and tag @twosisterscrafting on Instagram so we can see it!
