Grab your baking sheet because we are making the coolest Halloween sugar cookies ever today, Candy Corn Cookies! Kids of all ages will want to join you in the kitchen for this fun cookie making event that is so easy everyone can help!

Halloween Cookie Recipe Kids Love

If you’re looking for a quick way to make Halloween cookies with your kids, check out these adorable Candy Corn Sugar Cookies! Even if you are not a candy corn lover, you have to appreciate the cool colorful design of this candy corn cookies recipe that does NOT taste like candy corn!

No cookie cutter needed! You won’t even have to roll out the dough…so these can be done lickety-split.

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Super Easy Candy Corn Cookie Recipe

Ingredients Needed to Make Candy Corn Sugar Cookies

• favorite sugar cookie dough recipe – you can use your favorite sugar cookie dough recipe or store bought cookie dough
• red food coloring & yellow food dye
• A bread loaf pan
• knife
• 3 medium bowls
• cookie sheet
• (optional) parchment paper

Instruction To Make Candy Corn Sugar Cookies

Step 1

Prepare your cookie dough as per your recipe for cut out cookies (not drop cookies) at room temperature to make it easier to work with.

Step 2

Divide sugar cookie dough into thirds into 3 medium size bowls with equal parts:

• Color 1/3 yellow – by using the yellow food coloring, continuing to add a little food coloring until it is a bright yellowy mustard color.
• 1/3 orange – use color mixing chart on your food coloring drops box to combine the yellow and the red food coloring until your dough is bright orange
• Leave the last 1/3 plain without coloring – this will be your white layer

Step 3

Line a loaf pan with plastic wrap or wax paper.  

Step 4

Press yellow dough into bottom of pan, followed by orange dough & white dough.

Step 5

Press firmly.  

Step 6

Time to chill dough. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours, or overnight for best results.

Step 7

When the dough is firm, turn loaf pan upside down & remove your dough. Look at those layers of yellow, orange and white dough.

Step 8

Using a sharp knife, cut your dough into 1/4th inch wide strips.

Step 9

Cut each slice into triangle – each triangle looks like a piece of candy corn!  

Step 10

Discard (or eat!) the ends that are rounded if it bothers you.

Step 11

Spread out triangles onto ungreased cookie sheets covered with a piece of parchment paper & bake according to your sugar cookies recipe’s directions until not quite golden brown.

Recipe Notes from Making Candy Corn Sugar Cookies

Be sure to pull them out before they get browned on the top. The colors will not be very vibrant if they bake too long!   I learned the hard way with my first time and next time had better looking candy corn cookies.

I love easy recipes like this one and how easy these cookies are to shape, and you don’t have to flour the counter, roll dough, get out the electric mixer, use cookie cutters, re-roll your dough, and repeat the whole process fifty times.

Allow to cool & enjoy candy corn season.

Make Candy Corn Sugar Cookies For Halloween

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If you're looking for a quick way to make Halloween cookies with your kids, check out these adorable Candy Corn Sugar Cookies!

Ingredients

• Your favorite sugar cookie dough recipe
• red & yellow food color
• A Loaf Pan

Instructions

1. Prepare your cookie dough as per your recipe for cut out cookies (not drop cookies).
2. Divide your dough into thirds.   Color 1/3 yellow, 1/3 orange (use color mixing chart on your food coloring drops box), and leave the last 1/3 plain.
3. Line a loaf pan with plastic cling wrap or wax paper.  
4. Press yellow dough into bottom of pan, followed by orange & white dough. 
5. Press firmly.
6. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours, or overnight for best results.
7. When the dough is firm, turn loaf pan upside down & remove your dough.  Look at those layers!
8. Using a sharp knife, cut your dough into 1/4 inch slices.
9. Cut each slice into triangles.
10. Discard (or eat!) the ends that are rounded if it bothers you.
11. Spread out triangles onto a cookies sheet & bake according to your recipe's directions.

Notes

Be sure to pull them out before they get browned on the top...the colors will not be very vibrant if they bake too long!

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Are you going to try these candy corn sugar cookies? Already made them? We’d love to hear from you in the comments below.