Candy Corn Cookies

Course Dessert

Keyword cookies

In a mixing bowl, cream the butter with the sugar until it is smooth.
Add in all four eggs at one time and continue to mix.
Add the vanilla and continue mixing.
Sift the four, baking powder, and salt together.
Now, add the dry mixture to the wet mixture. Continue mixing to make sure all ingredients are thoroughly blended.
Make the dough into a ball, and wrap it in cling wrap completely covering the entire dough ball.
Put in the refrigerator for about 6 hours or overnight.
Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Pull the cookie dough out of the refrigerator and let it sit out to soften up a bit.
Roll the dough out on the cutting board and using your cookie cutter begin to make your cookies.
Line the cookie sheet with parchment paper.
Using a metal spatula, move the cut cookie to the parchment-lined cookie sheet.
Bake for 8 minutes.
Remove cookies from the cookie sheet and put on a wire rack to completely cool.

Combine all ingredients (except the food coloring) in a mixing bowl, mixing on medium speed for 4 minutes.
Pull out four bowls and begin to divide the icing.
In Bowl #1, put in 4 TBSP of icing, add in several drops of black gel food coloring, and stir well until all of the color is blended. Divide the rest of the icing equally between three bowls.
In Bowl #2, add several drops of orange gel food coloring, stirring well until the color is blended.
In Bowl #3, add several drops of golden yellow gel food coloring, stirring well until the color is blended.
The last bowl of icing remains white.
Spoon each of the icings into individual frosting bags with a #5 tips.

Outline the top third of the candy corn in white. Give the icing outline at least 30 seconds to dry.
Squeeze some of the remaining icing into a bowl, add 1 tsp of water, and mix well.
Use a butter knife to spread from the outlined part towards the center and fill in the top third of the candy corn with white icing. Allow to dry slightly.
Outline the center part of the candy corn with orange. Allow this to dry slightly before filling it in with orange icing. Allow to dry a little bit.
Outline the bottom third of the candy corn in golden yellow allowing it to dry slightly before filling this part in with more golden yellow icing.
Using black icing draw a mouth and two eye brows.
Place the candy eyes under the eye brows.
Allow 5-10 hours to dry.