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Home » Blog » Uncategorized » Easy Mini Candy Corn Cookies

Easy Mini Candy Corn Cookies

Created On: October 5, 2012  |  Updated: October 5, 2012  |   11 Comments


These little cookies are as fun to eat as they are to make! They are much easier to make than they look… no individual little pieces of dough to puzzle together!

I made these yummy cookies as a collaboration with some of my bloggy buddies who also created Halloween treats to share!

Halloween Cookie Pops from Always in Wonder 
Pumpkin Patch Cookie Cupcakes from Madigan Made
Mini Candy Corn Cookies (get the instructions below!)
Veggie Jack O Lantern from Mom Endeavors
Pumpkin Spice Rice Krispie Treats from Rhonda at Mrs. Greene
Halloween No Bake Cheesecakes from Honeybear Lane
Monster Mallows from The Country Chic Cottage

I started with sugar cookie dough. If you have a favorite sugar cookie recipe, go ahead and use that. If not, try mine:
1 c sugar
1/4 c butter or margarine
1/2 tsp salt
1 egg
zest from 1/2 a lemon (optional but sooo worth it)
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 1/4 c flour
1 tsp baking powder
Pre-heat oven to 350. Cream together sugar, margarine, vanilla and salt. Add egg and lemon rind. Slowly add in flour and baking powder. If dough is dry, add hot water, a small amount at a time until dough comes together. Do not add too much water… adding food coloring in the next steps will help moisten the dough. 
Divide the dough into three parts. The largest part is roughly 1/2 of the dough. The smallest part is about 1/3 of the remaining half.

Knead in food coloring a couple drops at a time to work it into the dough. The smallest ball of dough gets no food coloring, the middle ball becomes yellow, and the largest becomes orange. If you use a mixture of red and yellow to make orange, do not use equal parts of both red and yellow food coloring. Instead, use 1 drop of red to every 3-4 drops of yellow food coloring.

Your colored dough will look like this. 

Make the white ball into a cylinder. Don’t worry overmuch about the size of the cylinder.  Flatten the yellow ball into a rectangle-ish shape. The rectangle should be as wide as the cylinder, and as tall as the circumference of the cylinder.

Wrap the yellow dough all the way around the white dough. Then do the same with the orange dough. Try to make it all the way to the ends, but if it doesn’t look perfect, don’t worry about it. You can cut the ends off and snack on them rather than bake them!

Roll the large triple-colored dough cylinder into a long, more narrow tube. Don’t worry, all three of the colors will stretch evenly. Cut the dough into smaller pieces, wrap in plastic, and place in the freezer for at least an hour until the dough sets.

After the dough has set, cut off the end, then slice into rounds.

Slice each wedge into 6 pieces. This makes the candy corn shape.

 Spread the dough wedges out on a cookie sheet.

 Bake at 350 degrees for 7-10 minutes. They should be cooked, and slightly brown on the bottom, but not at all brown on the top.

 Find a fun Halloween plate and treat yourself to these tricked-out cookies!

 Always,
Carolina

ps – if you want to check out any of the other yummy Halloween treats, I’ve added them again below!

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  1. Jaclyn N Lil M says

    October 5, 2012

    YUMMMM 🙂 Wish I was there to try one!!! xoxo Miss you

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  2. Ami Allison says

    October 6, 2012

    ACK!! So cute! I’m going to make these for a lil Halloween party I”m throwing for the kids in the family. I bet they would LOVE them. Thanks for sharing. 🙂

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  3. Giant Sis says

    October 23, 2012

    Love those! I’ll never make them, but I’m always fascinated to see what people can do! 🙂

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  4. Claritza says

    October 27, 2013

    I made these cookies and they were pretty and tasty! However, I have some questions. What diameter is the cookie dough roll? How many cookies does one recipe make? I went with a 2” diameter, but I was concerned that if I cut the slices into sixths they would burn easily. I went with cutting them into quarters and made about 120 cookies.

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    • Carolina says

      October 27, 2013

      My round was about 3 to 3.5 inches in diameter. I didn’t count how many cookies it made… quite a few since they are so small! It would depend how accurate you are in cutting your slices of your roll. If you cut them a bit thinner, you can get quite a few more, and if you cut it a little thicker, you’ll get less… You could get 120-150 out of the recipe I used.
      If you are worried about them burning, bake them a few minutes less. The dough should still set, but be a bit softer.

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      • Claritza says

        February 3, 2014

        Thanks for the advice! Looking forward to making these again next Halloween!

        Reply
  5. Kelsey says

    September 29, 2015

    This are adorable!
    Do you mind if I ask how big they turned out? I was wondering if I tried making one giant roll how big the cookies cut into sixths would be.

    Reply

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