These sugar cookie cups use pre-cut sugar cookie dough and a festive topping for the holiday. I gave these a Halloween theme by adding food coloring and sprinkles. I switch these up at Christmas by adding green or red food coloring.

Using gel food coloring is a great option because it doesn’t affect the flavor and it has a wonderful, bright color.

Halloween Sugar Cookie Cups

Prep time: 5 minutes | Cook time: 15 minutes (bake and filling creation)| Total time: 20 minutes

Ingredients

• Package of precut sugar cookie dough
• 1- 8oz package of cream cheese, room temp
• 1 cup of powdered sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• Whatever food coloring you’d like the filling to be or you can keep it white
• Sprinkles or fruit as a topping

Recipe

• Preheat your oven to the degree on the sugar cookie package.
• Using a muffin pan, form your cookie squares into circles and put them into the tins.
• Bake for 9-12 minutes, just enough to where the outer edges are a little brown and the center is a little flexible.
• While those are baking, in a medium bowl, add your cream cheese, sugar and vanilla extract and stir until it’s all mixed together.
• Add in the food coloring that you’d like.
• Take the cookies out of the oven and gently drop the pan onto the top of the stove. This will create a sunken center in the cookies that will be perfect for adding the filling!
• Put the filling in a piping bag or ziplock. Cut the tip of the bag off.
• Begin squirting the filling into each sugar cookie bowl until all are filled.
• Top it with a festive sprinkle or fruit.
• Refrigerate until you plan to serve.

XO, Rachel