The busy holiday season is here and as much as I love making homemade treats I know my time is limited. When I need a quick and easy to make Christmas treat I pick up a roll of sugar cookie dough and a box of cake mix. These Sugar Cookie Bites are so easy to make and are the perfect bite size treat for the dessert table.
These bite size mini cupcakes are made with a sugar cookie crust, topped with layer of sweet sugar cookie dough is topped with a red cupcake batter.
After baking and cooling, you can top these sweet little holiday gems with vanilla frosting and decorate with holiday-themed cupcake toppings.
These Sugar Cookie Cupcake Bites are perfect for your holiday open house or Christmas party.
The best thing about them is that you only need three easy to find ingredients and some sprinkles or holiday themed cupcake toppings.
You will need:
- Roll of sugar cookie dough: You can find this in the refrigerated section of the grocery store by the canned biscuits.
- Boxed cake mix and ingredients to make: I like using red velvet cake mix but you could use any flavor you like.
- Store bought frosting: You'll need about 1 ½ tubs of frosting.
- Optional: Christmas themed sprinkles.
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 350 F. degrees.
- Line the mini cupcake pan with mini cupcake papers.
- Press 1 teaspoon of the cookie dough into the bottom of each cupcake liner. Be sure to completely cover each bottom with dough.
- Mix the cake batter following the directions on the box. Pour the batter into a squeeze bottle. Or use a a tablespoon to fill each cupcake liner with the cake batter leaving ¼ an inch at the top.
- Bake the mini cupcakes for 17 to 20 minutes until the center is cooked and the top springs back.
- Place the pan on a wire cooling rack and cool for 5 minutes. Remove the cupcakes from the pan and place on the cooling rack to cool completely.
- Once cool frost with the frosting. You can use a frosting decorator bag and a swirl tip to make the top pretty.
- Sprinkle the frosting with Christmas themed sprinkles of your choice.
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This recipe is a perfect dessert for a Christmas cookie swap or a holiday party.
Is this the first time you are hosting a cookie exchange? Check out my How To Host a Cookie Exchange for ideas and tips.
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Christmas Sugar Cookie Cupcake Bites
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 Roll Sugar Cookie dough
- 1 box Red Velvet Cake Mix (plus ingredients to make)
- 1 ½ tubs Vanilla Frosting
- Sprinkles and other holiday cupcake decorations (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 F.
- Prepare the cupcake pan by lining with cupcake liners.
- Prepare the cake mix following the directions on the package. Place the cake batter into a large squeeze bottle, a cake decorating bag or a thick plastic baggie.
- Secure the top of the bag if using. If using a squeeze bottle fill the bottle with the cake batter and snip the tip of the bottle to slightly widen the hole.
- Open the roll of cookie dough and using a teaspoon measuring spoon scoop exactly one teaspoon of cookie dough and roll into a ball. Place the sugar cookie dough ball into the center of a cupcake liner in the pan.
- Repeat filling the mini cupcake pan. Use the back of the measuring spoon to flatten the ball into a disc that completely fills the bottom of the cupcake liner. Being careful not to let the cookie dough move up the sides of the cupcake liner.
- Carefully fill each cupcake well with cake mix to ¼ an inch from the top of the pan. Make sure the sugar cookie dough is completely covered with cake batter. Do not overfill!
- Place the mini cupcake pan in the preheated oven and bake for 17 to 20 minutes or until the cake batter is set in the center.
- Remove the pan from the oven and place on a cooling rack to cool at least 5 minutes. After five minutes carefully remove each mini cupcake from the baking pan and place on a wire cooling rack. Allow to cool completely.
- Once cool frost with vanilla frosting and decorate with holiday sprinkles and cupcake decorations.
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