Easy Snickers Cookie Cups made with refrigerated cookie dough and candy bars. Take the extra step and make the caramel frosting to add the finishing touch! It’s so worth it.
Love candy bars? Try our frozen snickers pie for a fun summer treat. Or give our homemade 3 Musketeers recipe a try!
Caramel Chocolate Chip Cookie Cups
One of my husbands’ favorite treats is peanut butter cookie cups with a Reese’s in the center. That’s it. He is even content with the refrigerated cookie dough for a simple two ingredient dessert.
All the fancy meringue cookies, cheesecake and divinity candy I make, and at the end of the day, he’d rather have something that involves nothing more than store bought cookie dough and a candy bar.
I can’t fault him, though.
Chocolate candy wrapped in soft cookie dough is a thing of beauty; and a treat I’m happy to make and eat! As evidenced by our stuffed caramel cookies!
PRO TIP: Use my homemade chocolate chip cookie cup recipe instead of store bought!
Snickers Cookie Cups
I got to work making a treat that was already fairly decadent with chocolate chip cookie dough, milk chocolate, caramel, nougat and peanuts in every cup. And I promise you, I had every intention of stopping right there.
We all know I love frosting on everything…so I whipped up some caramel frosting and topped it with some peanuts and mini chocolate chips to maintain the Snickers theme.
You’ll thank me later for my tendency to overachieve when it comes to candy based desserts!
Ingredient Notes
These homemade cookie cups are so easy considering how impressive they look, and taste.
It’s a great reason to always keep a tube of refrigerated cookie dough on hand, even if you’re usually more of a bake-cookies-from-scratch kind of person.
Everything you need to make Snickers Cookie Cups:
- Refrigerated Cookie Dough
- Snickers Bars (miniature or full size)
- Caramel frosting (recipe below)
If you’re using full sized Snicker’s bars, chop them into pieces first. Use a sharp knife to chop each full sized bar into 8 pieces.
To make the cookie cups:
STEP 1. Cut the cookie dough into pieces and drop each piece at the bottom of a mini muffin tin.
STEP 2. Bake in oven for about 10-12 minutes at 350 F until lightly browned. Immediately press the snickers candy pieces into center. Allow to cool in pan about 15 minutes. Remove and cool completely on wire rack.
While the cookie cups are cooling, make the caramel frosting.
How to make Caramel Frosting
Caramel lovers rejoice! Finally, a frosting that’s easy to make and actually tastes like caramel. This buttercream frosting is light, fluffy and sweet with lots of caramel flavor.
Here’s what you need:
- Powdered sugar
- Unsalted butter
- Milk
- Caramel sauce
To make the frosting:
Beat powdered sugar with butter, milk and caramel sauce for 5 minutes, until light and fluffy. Pipe onto cooled cookie cups, and immediately sprinkle with peanuts and chocolate chips.
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Snickers Cookie Cups
Ingredients
For the Cookies:
- 1 roll refrigerated chocolate chip cookie dough 32 ounce
- 48 mini snickers candy or about 6 full size snickers bars, chopped into 8 pieces
For the Frosting:
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- ½ cup unsalted butter softened
- 2 Tablespoons milk
- 2 Tablespoons caramel sauce
- ½ cup peanuts
- ¼ cup mini chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Cut cookie dough into 48 pieces. Drop each piece into a mini muffin tin.
- Bake in oven for about 10-12 minutes, until lightly browned. Immediately press candy into center. Allow to cool in pan about 15 minutes. Remove and cool completely on wire rack.
- For the frosting, beat powdered sugar with butter, milk and caramel sauce for 5 minutes, until light and fluffy. Pipe onto cooled cookie cups, and immediately sprinkle with peanuts and chocolate chips.
Notes
- If you need a nut free version, Milk Way Bars would also be delicious here! The caramel frosting pairs perfectly with the chocolate, nougat and caramel from the candy bars–and I’m obsessed with the way it tastes on the chocolate chip cookies.
Nutrition
These Snickers Cookie Cups are cookies AND candy all in one easy to make treat! Bake up a batch of these bars to share today–just be sure to set aside a few all for yourself. Trust me on this one! You deserve it.
Do you need to refrigerate these because of the frosting? If not serving immediately. Thanks!
I don’t refrigerate them, but you can if you’d like!
Made these for weekend family party easy to put together yummy thanks for a great recipe!
Hi! I love your blog and all of your recipes. I bake for the Chicago Bears, and plan to make these for the opening week of the NFL season. Just wondering about the frosting. When you say caramel sauce, do you use a homemade sauce, or store-bought like you’d put on ice-cream… or just any kind will do? Thanks so much for sharing all of your fabulous treat recipes! I am going to start blogging my baking and will link to you whenever I make yours. Can’t wait to try these!
Hi Sarah, what a fun job (especially for a Bears fan like myself 🙂 ), for the caramel I usually use a homemade…but a thick store bought works great too!! Good luck with the blog!
Thank you so much I liked it 🙂
Made these yesterday. Oh so YUMMY! LOVE THE CARAMEL FROSTING!! We’re talking eat it with a spoon love! Of note, I used mini snickers and noticed the candy center would pull out when taking a second bite. I’ll try cutting up the full-sized bars next time, as then they are not completely enrobed in chocolate and will perhaps stay in place? Thanks for the recipe!!!
Good tip on the candy bars. And yes. That frosting. SWOON!!!
I had the privilege of trying one of these delicious little yummies. Oh my–they are every bit as fabulous as they look. Probably even better!
Hey neighbor 🙂 Thanks!!
mmmmmmmmmmmm gooey goodness!
OH my word!!!! Hot damn these look phenomenal!!!!! Kinda wonderful for when you have way too much halloween candy left over – lol
leftover candy? What is that? haha!!
I’m pretty sure I couldn’t do a pull up right now. Good job!
Eeek! I am SO IN LOVE! These look absolutely INCREDIBLE Amy! You are a genius.
Congrats on your pull-up! That’s more than I can do – I have bird arms, haha. Love these cookie cups!
LOL Bird Arms. You crack me up 🙂
Congrats on achieving your goal! You have the right motivation so no wonder you are rocking it! These cookie cups look so tempting! Love the caramel frosting idea!
Yeah, I think that was the right trick this time…motivation 🙂
These look so versatile and absolutely delicious!
These are so cute! I love the oozing caramel in the center!
It is the best part. Oh wait, the frosting is good. Darn, and the cookie. How do you choose???
No. Way.
You have actually combined my all time favorite candy bar into a cookie AND a cup which means = portable deliciousness. This is dangerous!
Yay for pull up goals!! I don’t think I can even do 1. Maybe I should try sometime.
Or maybe I should just eat 100 of these instead. Because snickers and cookies and adorable little cups? GIMME THAT! Pinned!
mmm, the cookie cups look very delicious!
WOW. I am totally impressed. As someone who tries to get stronger but who has a totally weak upper body, I am full of admiration. Congratulations on getting that pull-up done! And for your overenthusiastic swim. Being sore is good. It’s your body’s way of letting you know you have muscles!
These cookie cups are a perfect post pull-up reward!