Hot Chocolate Cookie Cups

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5 from 2 votes

Cute and easy Christmas Cookies are these delicious Hot Chocolate Cookie Cups!

Prep Time5

Cook Time15

Assembly Time15

Total Time35

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings: cookies

Calories: 321kcal

Author: Julie Evink

Ingredients

24 count Store-bought sugar cookie dough 16 ounce package
24 Miniature Reese’s cups unwrapped
11 ounce package white chocolate chips
24 Mini candy canes
16 ounces tub of white frosting
Marshmallow bits
Holiday sprinkles

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and spray a mini muffin pan with non-stick spray.
Unwrap your store-bought sugar cookie dough and break it apart. Place a piece of uncooked dough in each mini muffin pan cup. Take a small square of wax paper and press the middle of the dough with your fingers to create a reservoir in the middle of each cookie. Bake in preheated oven for 13 minutes or until slightly golden brown.
Make sure all your miniature Reese’s cups have been unwrapped. Then gather your mini candy canes and, with a serrated knife, carefully cut off the hooks used for the handle of your hot chocolate “mug.” Set aside the remaining part of the candy cane to use later as a peppermint “stir stick.”
Place your store-bought white frosting in a piping bag and set it aside. Make sure your marshmallow bits and holiday sprinkles are ready.
Once the cookies are done, remove them from the oven and press one mini Reese’s cup in the center of each cookie. Repeat until all cookies have a miniature peanut butter cup.
Then take your prepared “peppermint sticks and insert them at an angle near the edge of the cookie cup. Set the cookies aside to cool for at least 20 minutes.
Melt 1 tablespoon of white chocolate chips to use as the glue for your hot chocolate cookie cup assembly. Use your “glue” to place our previously prepared “handles” on the side of the cookie cup. Repeat for all cookie cups and set them aside to dry for at least 10 minutes.
Once the handles are dry, take your prepared piping bag of icing and pipe a tiny dollop of “whipped cream” on your “hot chocolate.”
Finally, sprinkle your desired amount of holiday sprinkles and marshmallow bits on top.

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