Halloween Dessert Cups
Halloween dessert cups are easy, no bake treats for Halloween. Vanilla cookie crust with vanilla mousse filling and decorated with festive Halloween sprinkles! These dessert cups are perfect for kids and Halloween parties!
Ingredients for Halloween Dessert Cups
- Vanilla sandwich cookies – Golden Oreos crushed into fine crumbs. No need to remove the cream filling!
- Unsalted butter – Melted. You can also use salted if you prefer.
- Instant vanilla pudding mix – Be sure it is instant pudding mix and not cook and serve. A 3.9 ounce box.
- Milk – Use whatever milk you would like!
- Heavy cream – Heavy cream or heavy whipping cream work equally as well for this recipe.
- Gel food coloring – To give these dessert cups some Halloween flair, add a few drops of gel food coloring to the vanilla mousse! Use whichever color you would like!
- Halloween sprinkles – Fun Halloween sprinkles are perfect for these cups! These sprinkles are the exact ones I used for this recipe! I put sprinkles in the vanilla cookie crust and on top of the vanilla mousse.
Tools & Supplies to Make Halloween Dessert Cups
How to Make Halloween Dessert Cups
- Combine vanilla sandwich cookie crumbs, melted butter, and Halloween sprinkles.
- Portion the golden Oreo cookie crumbs into 28 2-ounce plastic cups using a small cookie scoop or spoon. Use one of the plastic cups to press the crumbs into the bottom of the cup.
- In another mixing bowl, whisk together instant vanilla pudding mix and milk. Chill for 5 minutes.
- Add in heavy cream to the pudding mixture and whip with an electric hand mixer until thickened. Add a few drops of yellow and green gel food coloring to the mousse, if desired.
- Fill a piping bag with the mousse mixture. Pipe the mousse into the cups until about 3/4 full.
- Decorate the dessert cups with Halloween sprinkles. Have fun and be creative.
- Seal the cups with a lid and chill. The cups can be served immediately or stored in the refrigerator for 2 to 3 days.
Halloween Dessert Cups Recipe Tips
- The plastic cups with lids can be found on Amazon or at your local party supply store. You can also use cupcake liners or make it into a no bake cheesecake in an 8-inch pan.
- This recipe makes approximately 28 2-ounce cups. This is an estimation. You may have a few more or a few less depending on how much vanilla mousse filling you pipe into the cups! A small cookie scoop measures the perfect amount of crumbs in the 28 cups.
- To tint the vanilla mousse, I recommend using gel food coloring! For these dessert cups, I used a few drops each of yellow and green gel food coloring to get a neon green color. Use whatever color you would like to make these dessert cups fun and festive!
- A word of caution! The sprinkles will bleed after some time! Due to the moisture in the dessert cups, after a day, the sprinkles will start to bleed color, so this is a dessert cup you may want to make and eat the same day! If you don’t mind a little bleeding color, the dessert cups can be kept for 2 to 3 days in the refrigerator. If you want to avoid color bleeding, you could replace the sprinkles with other decorations including candies, gummy worms, candy pumpkins, or candy corn!
- Store the cups in the refrigerator for about 2 to 3 days. A great way to serve these dessert cups at a party is straight out of a cooler so they remain chilled. When serving, do not leave the cups out for more than 30 minutes or so.
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Halloween Dessert Cups
Yield: 28 2-ounce cups
Halloween dessert cups are an easy, no bake treat for Halloween. Vanilla cookie crust with vanilla mousse filling and decorated with festive Halloween sprinkles! These dessert cups are perfect for Halloween parties!
Equipment
- 28 2-ounce plastic cups with lids
Ingredients
Vanilla Cookie Crust
- 2 cups (200 g) vanilla sandwich cookie crumbs
- ¼ cup (57 g) unsalted butter melted
- 1 tbsp (10 g) Halloween sprinkles
Vanilla Mousse Filling
- 3.9 oz (111 g) instant vanilla pudding mix
- 1 ½ cups (366 g) milk
- 1 ½ cups (357 g) heavy cream
- 2-3 drops (2-3 drops) green & yellow gel food coloring
Topping
- ¼ cup (40 g) Halloween sprinkle blend
Instructions
- In a small bowl, combine vanilla sandwich cookie crumbs and melted butter. Mix to combine.
- Portion the crumbs into 28 2-ounce plastic cups using a small cookie scoop or spoon. Use one of the plastic cups to press the crumbs into the bottom of the cup.
- In a large mixing bowl, whisk together instant vanilla pudding mix and milk until combined. Chill for 5 minutes.
- Pour heavy whipping cream into the pudding and whip on medium-high speed with an electric hand mixer until thickened. Add a few drops of green and yellow gel food coloring to tint the mousse. Use whatever colors you prefer!
- Fill a piping bag with the mousse mixture. Pipe into the cups until about 3/4 full.
- Add Halloween sprinkles to the tops of the cups! Be creative!
- Seal the cups with a lid and chill. The cups can be served immediately or stored in the refrigerator for 2 to 3 days.
Notes
Halloween dessert cups can be made ahead of time and refrigerated for 2 to 3 days. Serve cold. The cups can be left at room temperature for about 30 minutes.
Metric conversions are calculated automatically. I cannot guarantee the accuracy of this information.
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About Courtney
Baker | 80s Lover | Cookbook Author
Courtney is a self-taught home baker and cookbook author of “Girls Just Wanna Bake Cupcakes”. She loves to create new and unique recipes while simultaneously listening to 80s music.
How many Oreo’s did you use for this recipe?
Hi Marina! I’m not actually sure. I didn’t count. However, I did a quick Google search and it says there are about 11 Oreos in one cup of crumbs, so my educated guess is 22 Oreos for this recipe!