Description
Valentine’s Day Cookie Cups are delightful bite-sized treats featuring a soft, chewy, buttery sugar cookie dough wrapped around a creamy Hershey’s Hug center. Perfectly festive with optional decorative sprinkles, these cookie cups are easy to make and ideal for celebrating love and sweetness.
Ingredients
Scale
Cookie Dough
- 17.5 ounce package sugar cookie mix
- ½ cup (1 stick) salted butter, melted
- 3 tbsp all-purpose flour
- 1 large egg, room temperature
- Pink/red food coloring, as needed
Filling and Topping
- 24-26 Hershey’s Hugs, unwrapped
- Decorative sprinkles, optional, for topping
Instructions
- Prepare Pan and Oven: Spray a mini cupcake pan with cooking spray and preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit to ensure even baking.
- Make Dough: In a large bowl, beat together the sugar cookie mix, melted butter, all-purpose flour, egg, and pink/red food coloring until just combined. Adjust the food coloring amount to achieve your desired hue.
- Shape Dough: Take about 1 tablespoon of the cookie dough and flatten it with your hand or rolling pin to about the size of your palm.
- Add Filling: Place one unwrapped Hershey’s Hug in the center of the flattened dough, then carefully wrap the dough around the Hug, forming a ball. Use your hands to smooth out cracks and form a neat dough ball.
- Fill Cupcake Pan: Place each filled dough ball upright into a cavity of the prepared mini cupcake pan. Repeat the process until all the dough is used.
- Bake: Bake the cookie cups in the oven for 12 minutes, or until the dough edges look set and lightly golden.
- Decorate: Remove cookie cups from the oven and immediately press decorative sprinkles lightly onto the warm tops to help them stick.
- Cool: Allow the cookie cups to cool in the pan for 15 minutes before carefully removing and serving.
Notes
- Store cookie cups in an airtight container at room temperature for up to two weeks to maintain freshness.
- To freeze, individually wrap cookie cups and place them in a freezer-safe container or bag; they can be kept frozen for 5-6 months.
- Allow the cookie cups to cool completely before removing from the pan to avoid them falling apart.
- When wrapping dough around Hershey’s Hugs, gently fix any cracks with your fingers for a neat appearance.
- Use festive decorative sprinkles like hearts or flowers pressed into warm dough immediately after baking for best adhesion and presentation.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie cup
- Calories: 130 kcal
- Sugar: 10 g
- Sodium: 90 mg
- Fat: 7 g
- Saturated Fat: 4 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 2 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 16 g
- Fiber: 0.5 g
- Protein: 1 g
- Cholesterol: 20 mg
