Candy Corn Cookies!

Candy Corn Cookies!

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My aunt and uncle, who live in Wisconsin, are coming to dinner tomorrow at my sister's house. I am always so excited to see them since we don't get to very often. They are just the nicest people but really, my mother's whole family is like that. Anyway, I told my sister that I would bring dessert and so I baked my favorite sugar cookie recipe.  But I have been wanting to try this technique ever since I saw it on Pinterest and it turned out to be fairly easy and very cute! 

Step 1: First make you favorite sugar cookie recipe and separate the dough into thirds. Place each third into its own bowl. In one bowl add red and yellow food coloring to make orange (my dough used 12 drops of yellow and 4 drops of red), in the second bowl add yellow food coloring to make your desired color (I used 6 drops), and leave the third one uncolored.

Step 2: Lay out a sheet of plastic wrap and blob your orange on it. Using the wrap, flatten the dough and form it into a rectangle. Mine was about 1/2 inch-3/4 inch thick.  It's ok if it's not perfect.  You can trip the edges later. Wrap it completely and chill overnight (or in the freezer like I did).  Do the same with the other dough thirds so that they are all relatively the same size and thickness. Each should be wrapped in its own wrap. Chill until very stiff.


Step 3: Flour your board. Unwrap dough slabs and layer them in this order: Yellow-Orange-Uncolored. Press down to seal up the layers. You will have something that looks like this:

Step 4:  Using a very sharp knife, slice as in the picture above.  My slices were about a 1/2 inch thick. Then slice off the first edge at an angle and begin making triangles.

Step 5:  Lay them on a cookie sheet about 2 inches apart. Sprinkle with white cookie decorating sugar to make them sparkle if you wish. I wished. Bake according to your recipe.

They don't all come out perfectly but that's ok!  They are cute and fun and would be easy to do for a fall or Halloween celebration.

I'll post the recipe tomorrow!  It is the BEST recipe ever and it makes so much dough that I usually freeze it in thirds so we always have cookie dough for rolling/cutting cookies.

Oh and remember to check back this week for my giveaway!

Cheers!

Jenny