Easy Candy Corn Shaped Cookies {Video}
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One of my favorite things about Halloween is all the fun treats! Candy Corn Cookies come together in a flash…. no rolling or cookie cutters involved! Using a basic butter cookie dough and a little food coloring, and you have the perfect recipe for candy corn shaped cookies!! They are just as cute as the classic fall candy and party-perfect!!
You can’t think of Halloween without candy corn coming to mind. That funny little tri-colored candy that everyone either loves or hates. I don’t think I know anyone who says “candy corn? I can take it or leave it”….am I right?
Whether you love candy corn or not, you’re going to love these cute little candy corn inspired cookies. They are super easy to make with your favorite sugar or butter cookie recipe dyed with a little food coloring, stacked in a loaf pan, and cut into little triangles.
These Candy Corn Cookies would be fabulous as a Halloween gift, party favor, or dessert table treat. You can get a head start on these buttery cookies by shaping and chilling the cookie dough ahead of time, then slice and bake the tricolor treats when you are ready!
This is also a great recipe or Halloween project to make with the kids.
Grab your mixer and apron and let’s get started!
Table of Contents
Tools Needed For Candy Corn Cookies:
- 1 batch sugar or butter cookie dough recipe
- gel food color
- 1-ounce semi-sweet chocolate, melted (optional)
- kitchen scale (optional)
- 1 loaf pan
- plastic wrap
- cutting board
- knife
- baking sheet
- parchment paper
- sugar
- cooling rack
How To Make Candy Corn Cookies
(printable recipe at end of post)
Simply start with a batch of your favorite sugar or butter cookie dough and divide it into thirds – if you have a kitchen scale you can use it to get them the same size, if not, just eyeball it 😉
Next, you need to color your dough to look like candy corn. Return 1/3 of your dough back to your mixer and add a little yellow gel color (I used Wilton Lemon Yellow), another 1/3 with orange (I used Wilton Orange) and the last 1/3 you can either leave plain for a traditional white, orange and yellow candy corn.
Or you can color with Wilton Brown Gel Color, OR you can melt 1 ounce of semi-sweet chocolate and mix that into your dough for the brown, orange and yellow candy corn like I did!
Once you have all of your dough colored, line a loaf pan with plastic wrap. Take the white or brown (whichever you are using) dough and press it evenly into the bottom of the loaf pan.
Then press orange dough over the white/brown, and lastly, press the yellow over the orange. Fold plastic wrap over dough and chill in the refrigerator for at least two hours.
After the dough has chilled for a few hours, remove from the pan and plastic wrap.
Cut dough brick into 1/4 inch slices, then cut each slice into 6-7 wedges. Place 1-inch apart onto a parchment-lined baking sheet.
Bake until bottoms are slightly browned. Cool for just 1 minute, then immediately place warm cookies in a bowl of sugar to coat. Place cookies on a cooling rack to cool completely.
Enjoy!!! I love how quick and easy these candy corn cookies are. Don’t they turn out just adorable?!
So tell me…..are you a candy corn lover or hater?
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Candy Corn Cookies
These candy corn shaped butter cookies come together in a flash…. no rolling or cookie cutters involved!
Ingredients
- 1 batch of butter cookie dough
- yellow gel food color
- orange gel food color
- brown gel food color
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
Instructions
- Simply start with a batch of your favorite sugar or butter cookie dough and divide it into thirds - if you have a kitchen scale you can use it to get them the same size, if not, just eyeball it 😉
- Next, you need to color your dough to look like candy corn. Return 1/3 of your dough back to your mixer and add a little yellow gel color (I used Wilton Lemon Yellow), another 1/3 with orange (I used Wilton Orange) and the last 1/3 you can either leave plain for a traditional white, orange and yellow candy corn, or you can color with Wilton Brown Gel Color, OR you can melt 1 ounce of semi-sweet chocolate and mix that into your dough for the brown, orange and yellow candy corn like I did!
- Once you have all of your dough colored, line a loaf pan with plastic wrap. Take the white or brown (whichever you are using) dough and press it evenly into the bottom of the loaf pan. Then press orange dough over the white/brown, and lastly, press the yellow over the orange. Fold plastic wrap over dough and chill in the refrigerator for at least two hours.
- After dough has chilled for a few hours, remove from pan and plastic wrap.
- Heat oven to 350°.
- Cut dough brick into 1/4 inch slices, then cut each slice into 6-7 wedges. Place 1-inch apart onto a parchment-lined baking sheet.
- Bake 10-12 minutes or until bottoms are slightly browned. Cool for just 1 minute, then immediately place warm cookies in a bowl of sugar to coat. Place cookies on cooling rack to cool completely
- Enjoy
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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 80 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 8Total Fat: 0gSaturated Fat: 0gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 0gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 1mgCarbohydrates: 2gFiber: 0gSugar: 2gProtein: 0g
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I don’t like it. At all. I’m convinced that the same people that like fruitcake, like candy corn. There must be some that do!
These cookies are a great idea. And they taste much better than what they’re modeled after.
Sorry…I’m a huge lover of candy corn, but can’t choke down fruitcake! 🙂 Please don’t lump me in with THOSE crazy people that DO like fruitcake! 🙂
GMTA! 🙂 I like that you used a brown layer instead of white – so pretty! WIll have to mix some of those in with the rest of my loaf I still have to bake! So much yummier than real candy corn! xo
These are so cute and I love how simple they are to make!
These are adorable Cheryl!!
I love everything related to candy corn! These cookies are perfect … sugar cookies without rolling … dipping them in sugar just tips them over the edge 🙂
Oops … butter cookies, not sugar cookies 😉
Cheryl this is such a fun recipe to create. I love your tutorial as well, so now I can visually see just what I need to do. Great recipe that I’ll definitely be making soon. Thanks for sharing.
These look amazing! Great job!
Oh these are so cute! I do like candy corn in small quantities! I have a feeling I could eat a bunch of these though!
Total candy corn fan here! So cute and love the little size
so stinkin adorable!!
These are so cute!
I love it! My girls will have so much fun making these cookies! Thanks for sharing, Cheryl! Pinned!
hahaha now that’s a candy corn that I could enjoy!
I am such a candy corn lover! I have to hide it from myself so I won’t eat the whole package. Love these adorable candy corn cookies, too!
LOVE candy corn but more than 2 handfuls and I get a sugar high head ache! 🙂
The end product looks far more complicated than the method you have shown, these look great! Being in the UK I haven’t had the chance to try these but I am pretty sure I would love them…
How many does this make?
well, it depends on how much your cookie recipe makes. I did not count how many I ended up with – but I would guess I got about 60-70 cookies – you get about 7 per slice and I probably got 8-10 slices from the loaf.
So cute! Love these cookies, Cheryl!
The cookies look great and so festive! Also, wanted to say that I enjoyed your talk at BBC last weekend. Lots of great tips… have a wonderful weekend.
These are awesome!! I think I could eat them as quickly as candy corn – they’d be gone in an instant.
Wow what an awesome idea!! I love it!! pinning!
Great project !!
I would love you to come and share @ Craft, Create & Inspire linky party !!!
Look forward to seeing you there 🙂
Claire x
These look great! I want to make them for my halloween party this weekend!
Question: you say to cut the loaf in 1/4″ slices, but the slices in the picture look much thicker than that.. Will 1/4″ be thick enough for the cookies to turn out the way yours have? Can’t wait to try it! Thanks!
1/4-1/2″ is fine
Love it! If you haven’t linked up yet, come share your project on Teach Me Tuesday
LOVE candy corn! Also, love the colors of it! Just printed this and will try soon! 🙂 Thanks!
Do you think these would turn out by really cheating and using the refrigerated sugar cookie dough?