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Candy Corn Cookies

Cookies that LOOK like Candy Corns

This first recipe is for cookies that end up looking like candy corn, but do not actually contain any.

Ingredients

• 1 cup of sugar
• 1 cup of margarine, softened
• 2 1/4 cup of flour
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla
• orange and yellow food coloring

Directions

1. Cream sugar and margarine, add egg and vanilla blend.
2. Add flour. Roll into three balls. add orange coloring to one of the balls. yellow to the other. The remaining ball has no color.
3. Chill dough. Then roll balls flat together so that the white ball is the bottom, the orange ball is in the middle and the yellow ball is the top.
4. With a knife cut the dough into 3 inch triangles. (If dough is still too sticky, add a little more flour)
5. Bake 15 min at 350F

Cookies with Candy Corn

And this recipe contains candy corn for those who want to use them instead of chocolate chips, etc.  These are very simple to make. You can mix this easily by hand, so don't worry about tiny hands in the mixer.  It takes about 45 minutes from start to finish. Make sure to put the dough in the refrigerator, or it might be too sticky to use. Determine if the cookies are done by touch rather than how they look.  If they "look" done, you have overcooked them.

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/4 cup cocoa (unsweetened)
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/4 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 4 tbsp butter (very soft) - Don't use margarine
• 1 egg yolk
• 1/4 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/4 tsp vanilla
• 36 pieces of candy corn (one candy corn for each cookie)

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 350°F.  Put sugar and butter in a medium bowl and beat together well with a wooden spoon.
2. Mix in the salt, baking powder, vanilla, and egg yolk.  Mix these until all ingredients are combined.
3. Add the cocoa and flour and keep mixing until it forms a dough.
4. Spoon out the dough, a teaspoon at a time, forming each into a ball.
5. Put the dough balls on a cookie sheet, baking for 10 to 12 minutes.  The edges should be firm and the cookies will feel dry when you touch them.
6. Pull the cookie sheet out of the oven and, while they're still warm, place a candy corn right in the middle of each cookie.
7. Allow the cookies stay on the pan while cooling for a minute, then transfer them to a wire rack to finish cooling.

If you want vanilla instead of chocolate cookies, just leave out the cocoa and use 3/4 cup instead of 1/2 cup.  All other directions are the same.