Yield: 12 cookies

Candy Corn Sugar Cookies

Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 9 minutes
Additional Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 29 minutes

These festive Candy Corn Sugar Cookies have a soft, buttery sugar cookie base that's shaped in a triangle and topped with melted chocolate and white chocolate for a fun cookie perfect for Halloween

Ingredients

For the Cookies

  • 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
  • ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
  • ½ cup unsalted butter, softened
  • ½ cup granulated sugar
  • 1 large egg yolk, room temperature
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • ½ teaspoon almond extract
  • 3 drops gel food coloring (orange)
  • 3 Tablespoons milk

For the Topping

  • 1 cup Ghirardelli dark chocolate melting wafers
  • 1 cup Ghirardelli white chocolate melting wafers

Instructions

  1. In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
  2. In a large mixing bowl, beat together the butter and sugar until combined. Add in egg yolk, vanilla, and almond extract. Add food coloring. Beat until combined.
  3. Add half the flour mixture to the mixing bowl and all of the milk. Mix just until combined, and then add the remaining flour, mixing just until combined.
  4. Divide dough into two balls. Cover in plastic wrap and refrigerate for an hour or until firm.
  5. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
  6. Remove cookie dough from the refrigerator. Roll out each ball between sheets of parchment paper until the dough is an approximate 7” x 11” rectangle shape that is ¼” thick. The parchment paper will prevent the cookie dough from sticking to the rolling pin. You could skip that parchment and just use a lightly floured work surface instead.
  7. Using a knife, cut 2 straight lines along the length of the rectangle to square off the dough. (See photos in blog post for visual guide). Cut triangles approximately 3 ½” wide at their wide end and narrowing to a point. Rotate the direction of the triangles you cut so that the point of one end becomes the wide end of the next triangle. You can also use cookie cutters - dust cookie cutters with flour so they do not stick to the dough.
  8. Ball up leftover dough and roll out to create more triangles. You should be able to make 12 large triangles (6 from each ball of dough).
  9. Transfer triangles to a baking sheet covered in parchment paper. Leave 2 inches between each cookie to allow for the cookie to expand while cooking.
  10. Bake for 9-11 minutes, do not overbake.
  11. Remove from oven and cool completely on a wire rack.
  12. Melt chocolates in two separate bowls. Dip the pointed end of the cookie in white chocolate and the larger end into the dark chocolate. Place on parchment paper to set.

Notes

  • Recipe originally tested with chocolate chips and white chocolate chips melted with coconut oil. However, we find the Ghirardelli melting wafers to taste amazing, and melt smooth without any added oils.
  • Store cookies in airtight container at room temperature for up to 5 days.
  • Freeze cookies in airtight container for up to 3 months.
  • Chilling cookie dough makes it easier to work with. However, if you chill for more than one hour, you may need to let it rest at room temperature for 15 minutes until it's softened slightly.
  • See blog post for more recipe tips and tricks, as well as photo tutorial.

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

12

Serving Size:

1 cookie

Amount Per Serving: Calories: 452Total Fat: 24gSaturated Fat: 14gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 9gCholesterol: 56mgSodium: 133mgCarbohydrates: 53gFiber: 3gSugar: 34gProtein: 5g

*Nutrition facts are an estimate and not guaranteed to be accurate. Please see a registered dietitian for special diet advice.

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