You can make these pretty Halloween cookies for your kids. These candy corn inspired cookies taste just as good as they look. Using a few drops of food coloring you can make these cookies for your family.
Yield: approximately 3 dozen
1 cup butter softened
1 1/2 cups confectioners sugar
1 egg
2 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cream of tartar
4-5 drops orange food coloring
4-5 drops yellow food coloring
Sanding Sugar if desired
In a large bowl combine softened butter, confectioners sugar, egg with an electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy. Stir in flour, baking soda, cream of tartar, and vanilla.
Divide dough into thirds, in one third add yellow food coloring, and mix well. In the second third add the orange food coloring and mix well. Leave the final third alone, you will leave this one white.
On separate sheets of wax paper roll out each dough ball into separate sheets that are approximately 12×9 inches. Stack rolled out dough sheets on top of each other on a cookie sheet, refrigerate stacked dough for approximately 30 minutes.
Remove sheets from the refrigerator after they have chilled, place the un-colored sheet on the bottom, then stack the orange sheet on top of the un-colorered sheet, remove waxed paper. Stack the yellow sheet on top of the orange sheet, remove the waxed paper when staking. Gently roll together the three stacks of dough into a cylinder. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Place cylinder on the cookie sheet, and place back into the refrigerator for about 30 minutes before slicing cookies.
When you remove the cylinder from the refrigerator, slice the cookies into 1/4-inch slices. On ungreased cookie sheet, place the slides about 1 inch apart.
Bake for approximately 7 to 8 minutes, let cool for 1 minute on the cookie sheet before placing on the cooling rack.
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