Description
Celebrate Independence Day with these delightful Patriotic Cookie Cups! Easy to make and irresistibly cute, these cookie cups are filled with luscious buttercream and topped with star-shaped cookies, making them a perfect treat for barbecues, picnics, or any festive gathering. With minimal effort required, you can impress your guests with a visually stunning dessert that’s as fun to create as it is to eat. Customize the colors for various holidays and enjoy the smiles they bring to both kids and adults alike.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 package premade refrigerated sugar cookie dough
- 1 recipe buttercream (half white, half tinted red)
- Dark blue gel food coloring
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Cut off 1/4 of the cookie dough; wrap the larger portion and chill.
- Add blue food coloring to the smaller dough portion; knead well and chill.
- Roll tablespoon-sized balls of plain dough into a mini muffin pan.
- Use a floured teaspoon to shape each ball into cups.
- Bake for 10 minutes; let cool completely before removing from the pan.
- Roll out the blue dough, cut out stars, and bake for 7 minutes until firm.
- Prepare buttercream; pipe into cooled cookie cups topped with blue stars.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 17 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie cup (30g)
- Calories: 150
- Sugar: 10g
- Sodium: 50mg
- Fat: 7g
- Saturated Fat: 4g
- Unsaturated Fat: 2g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 20g
- Fiber: 0g
- Protein: 1g
- Cholesterol: 20mg
Keywords: Chill colored dough before cutting shapes for best results. Experiment with different colors of gel food coloring for various occasions.