Name: Easy Easter Cookie Cups Recipe
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 24
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: ● 1 package of ready to bake chocolate chip cookie dough (24 cookies); ● 1 can vanilla frosting; ● 24 Cadbury Mini Eggs; ● 6-10 drops green food dye; ● Cooking Spray; ● Mini cupcake pan; ● Wooden spoon; ● 1M frosting tip (optional); ● Pastry bag or quart size plastic Ziploc bag

With Easter quickly approaching, these Easter Cookie Cups are an easy festive dessert you can make with just a few ingredients.

Easter is one of our favorite times of the year. You will not want to miss some of our other popular Easter treats including Easy Easter Marshmallow Pop Desserts, Chocolate Peep Brownies, and Easter Icebox Cake.

We highlighted this Spring Craft along with some other fun kid's crafts in our April Crafts for Kids along with our 101+ Easy Craft Ideas for kids.

Easter is always a fun time to load up on the fun desserts with all the sweets and cookies.

Is it because of the end of Lent? Maybe!

Could it be because of all the yummy chocolates and candies filling all the Easter eggs? That could be it too.

No matter what the reason, we highly recommend bringing these Easter cookies to your Easter gathering and giving everyone something to smile about.

What you need to make these Easter Desserts

Ready to bake chocolate chip cookie dough
vanilla frosting
Cadbury Mini Eggs
green food dye
Cooking Spray
Mini cupcake pan
Wooden spoon
1M frosting tip (optional)
Pastry bag or quart size plastic Ziplock bag

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees

Coat each cavity of mini muffin pan with cooking spray.

Break apart your cookie dough, and place one piece of cookie dough into each mini muffin cup.

Bake for 9-12 minutes, until the edges of the chocolate chip cookie cups are lightly brown or golden brown.

placing wood stick in the center of cookie dough mini muffins

Remove from the oven. A shallow well should form in the center of each cookie cup once out of the oven. If not, use the end of the wooden spoon to make a small well for your frosting.

Let cookie cups cool for 10-15 minutes, leaving them in the mini cupcake pan.

cookied cookie cups in a mini muffin tin

Run a butter knife along the edge of each cookie cup to help release them from the pan.

Let them cool completely on wire rack.

Spoon frosting into a small bowl.

adding green food coloring to white frosting

Add food coloring. Stir well.

(optional) Insert frosting tip into pastry bag or Ziploc bag. You cup the corner off if using a Ziploc bag.

Spoon frosting into pastry bag or Ziploc bag. Knead frosting down to the frosting tip.

Pipe frosting into each cookie.

placing chocolate eggs onto cookie cups'

Top each frosted cup with 2 Cadbury Mini Eggs.

Adding Easter eggs to the top of your cookie cups

Viola, the cutest and most easy Easter Dessert on this side of the Mississippi.

Variations To This Recipe You Might Enjoy

Other cookie variations to this recipe that are delicious include your favorite from-scratch chocolate chip cookies and peanut butter cookies.

Another great variation is if you replace the cup portion with a mini cake recipe.

If you find you do not have store-bought frosting, you could make your own with cream cheese and sugar. Another delicious topping is adding food coloring to whipped cream and you have yourself another great cookie nest topping.

Lastly, if you do not have the Cadbury chocolate eggs, you could use mini marshmallows as a fun alternative.

Other Easter Desserts Ideas

These chocolate covered Marshmallow Pops are a delicious dessert perfect for your Easter celebration. They are bright and cheery.
Delicious CHOCOLATE PEEP BROWNIES are a sweet and simple dessert, perfect for any Easter celebration.

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ONE DOLLAR EASTER CENTERPIECE cute and budget friendly.

Yield: 24 Cookie Cups