Preheat your oven to 350℉ and grease a muffin pan.
If using a roll of refrigerated cookie dough, slice the roll into 12 even slices, and then cut each of the slices into half to create 24 pieces, rolling each into balls. If using the 24 refrigerated sugar cookie ball package, no dividing is needed.
16 oz sugar cookie dough
Take the cookie balls and place one each into the bottom of the muffin cavities. Press the cookie dough into the bottom of the muffin pan to evenly distribute the dough, until each cavity is filled.
Bake in the preheated oven for 10-13 minutes, or until the cookie dough is fully cooked through.
The cookies should have naturally formed an indentation in the center of each cookie, you can use the back of a spoon to press down the center if it has risen too much. Transfer the cookies to a wire rack to cool completely.
Fill each cookie with about a tablespoon of cherry pie filling.
21 oz cherry pie filling
Mix together the powdered sugar, milk and vanilla extract to create a glaze and drizzle or pipe over the tops of the cherry cookies. Start with 2 tbsp milk and add more if needed.
1 cup powdered sugar, 3 tbsp milk, ½ tsp vanilla extract
Serve immediately, enjoy!
Notes
Store in an airtight container for up to 1-2 days at room temperature, or 5-7 days in the refrigerator.A regular sized muffin pan was used for this recipe. Mini muffin pans can be used, but will create more of a cookie cup shape for the cookie versus a more shallow “pie” shape. Cooking temp/times would remain the same.