Unicorn Cookie Cups

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These Unicorn Cookie Cups look like little cupcakes but they’re sneaky! They’re delicious little cookies filled with yummy sweet cream frosting and of course, topped with sprinkles and a unicorn horn.

Prep Time15

Cook Time8

Total Time23

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: unicorn cookie cup recipe, unicorn cookie cups, unicorn sugar cookies

Servings: cookies

Calories: 237kcal

Author: Jill

Ingredients

Unicorn Sugar Cookies:

1 box white cake mix
1/3 C Canola oil
2 large eggs
Pink, Purple, Teal gel food coloring
1 pouch of Light green, Hot Pink, and Purple Nonpareil's and sprinkle Jimmies (bought from Michaels craft stores)
1 container of Pink sanding sugar
Pam baking spray

Frosting:

1 C unsalted sweet cream butter softened
2 1/2 C powder sugar
1 tsp vanilla
3-5 TBSP heavy whipping cream
1/2 C unicorn sprinkle mix
Unicorn Horn Icing Decorations Bought from Hobby Lobby

Instructions

Sugar Cookies:

Preheat oven at 350º F.
Spray the cupcake pan with pam baking spray, set aside
Using a standing mixer, combine cake mix, vegetable oil, and 2 eggs until combined.
Divide the batter into three separate bowls.
Mix Pink food coloring into one bowl
Mix Purple food coloring into the second bowl
Mix Teal food coloring into the third bowl
Take about 1 TSP of each color of dough and form into tablespoon sized balls.
Pour sanding sugar into a bowl.
Roll the cookie dough into the sanding sugar then place into the mini cupcake pan.
Bake for 7 to 8 minutes.
Once the cookies come out of the oven, press down the back of 1 tbsp into the cookies to make an indent for the frosting.
Allow cookies to completely cool.

Icing:

Using a stand mixer, combine all ingredients (Except the sprinkles) and mix on medium speed.
Mix until you see stiffed peaks in your frosting.
Scoop the frosting into the piping bags

Decorating:

Pipe the frosting into the indent of the cookies
Sprinkle with the unicorn sprinkles
Place a horn into the middle of the frosting

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