How to Make Easy Cookie Cups Using a Muffin Pan

Easy Cookie Cups

yield: 12 SERVINGS

prep time: 10 MINUTES

cook time: 13 MINUTES

total time: 23 MINUTES

Ingredients

  • 16 oz. packaged cookie dough

Directions

1

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease a muffin pan or spray with nonstick baking spray.

2

Slice the cookie dough into 12 even slices. Place a slice into the bottom of each round.

3

Bake for 13-15 minutes until the middle is cooked. Remove from the oven and use a small cup to gently press down to make a cup shape.

4

Let cool for a couple of minutes and remove the cookie cups while still warm. Fill your cookie cups as desired with ice cream, frosting, or fruit.

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Use this easy kitchen tip to make all kinds of delicious cookie cups as a quick dessert idea for your family!  

Placing stuffed cookie cups dessert on a wood platter.

Do you love a good cookie dough hack to save time and effort?!

In the past, we have featured the idea of baking a giant cookie cake with packaged cookie dough, and today I am excited to share how to make cookie cups using a 12-cup muffin pan! I cannot believe how easy this is and would be such a fun activity to have the kids help with.

Check out my Instagram video which shows ya just how simple this idea is!

Cookie cups are such an easy and versatile idea.

The best part is you can fill your cookie with any sort of toppings you desire. Feel free to also use any type of cookie dough you’d like as well! There are so many unique flavor onlinebinations you can onlinee up with.

platter with cookie cups

Check out a few cookie cup recipe ideas I tried and loved:

Holding a tube of chocolate chip cookie dough.

cutting up cookie dough into 12 parts

cookie dough in muffin pan

using a small cup to smash middle of cookies in a muffin tin

Adding chocolate frosting the top of cookies with sprinkles.

Baking smores cookie cups using marshmallow and chocolate.

Adding Vanilla ice cream to the top of cookie.

Baking sugar cookie cups using store-bought dough.

Piping white frosting to sugar cookies with fruit on top.

A tray with various stuffed cookie cups


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Easy Cookie Cups

yield: 12 SERVINGS

prep time: 10 MINUTES

cook time: 13 MINUTES

total time: 23 MINUTES

Create cookie cups to fill with various toppings or ice cream using a muffin pan and store-bought cookie dough.

Ingredients

  • 16 oz. packaged cookie dough

Directions

1

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease a muffin pan or spray with nonstick baking spray.

2

Slice the cookie dough into 12 even slices. Place a slice into the bottom of each round.

3

Bake for 13-15 minutes until the middle is cooked. Remove from the oven and use a small cup to gently press down to make a cup shape.

4

Let cool for a couple of minutes and remove the cookie cups while still warm. Fill your cookie cups as desired with ice cream, frosting, or fruit.

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Woman holding chocolate chip cookie bowls.

Tips for baking the best cookie cup recipe:

  • Be sure to grease your muffin pan before starting to prevent sticking. Note: If you have nonstick Caraway bakeware like mine, then no grease or spray is needed. SWEET! 
  • I used tubes of cookie dough, but you can use the kind with 24 squares. Simply add two squares of dough to each muffin round.
  • Cooking times may vary a little so keep an eye on it towards the end of cook time. You want the middle to be cooked.
  • It’s much easier to take out the cookies from the muffin pan while the dough is still warm. Don’t let them cool all the way in the pan, as it will be harder to remove.

A tray with various stuffed cookie cups on the counter.

What a fancy-looking treat that is actually super simple!

A warm cookie with ice cream was my personal favorite way to eat these. I love that my family was super impressed with DIY cookie cups and they are easy and fun to make.

What would you top your cookie cups with? Let us know in the onlinements! 


Try this quick microwave mug cake in the microwave next!


About the writer:

Lina has a Bachelor's Degree from Northern Arizona University with 11 years of blogging and photography experience having work featured in Today.online, Martha Stewart, Country Living, Fox News, Buzzfeed, and HGTV.


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  1. fworl949

    Yum! My family has also always loved peanut butter cookies baked in a mini muffin tin with unwrapped mini Reese’s cups pressed in the center as soon as they onlinee out of the oven 🤤

    • Jessica (Hip Sidekick)

      Those sound delicious too! Thanks so much for sharing your variation your family enjoys! 🍪🤗

  2. Julie

    Hi! What do you use to make the cookie shape once inside?

    • Lina D (Hip2Save Sidekick)

      Hi Julie – I just used a litle condiment cup or really even the back of a spoon would work if you press down.

  3. Rhonda Johnson

    Pampered chef used to sell a wooden tool to press down and push the dough to the sides before baking. It worked great!

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