Are you a fan of those waxy little Halloween candies known as candy corns? My family seems to find them addicting. I’ve bought several bags of the stuff (must be Brach’s brand) for recipes this year and they keep disappearing. These Candy Corn Cookies are a cookie recipe that copies the look of this classic multi-colored candy.
How to Make Candy Corn Cookies:
This is a really SIMPLE Candy Corn Cookies recipe that uses packaged Betty Crocker cookie mix. You can ABSOLUTELY use your own very favorite homemade sugar cookie dough for this. I used this quickie method to try it out. If you live in the USA, Betty Crocker sugar cookie mix can be found in your market’s baking aisle next to the cake mixes. The cookie mix is combined with melted butter and egg. The dough gets divided up into three clumps. One clump is colored orange and another one with chocolate. Press the three layers on top of each other into a loaf pan and refrigerate for a bit. Slice the firmed-up loaf of dough into thin slices and then cut neatly into wedges. Place your wedges onto a cookie sheet. Leave room to grow. The finished product are some pretty cute Candy Corn Cookies! Ok, so mine don’t have yellow… they have brown instead. I suppose you could make a yellow layer instead of a chocolate layer if you really want them to match. But I have seen some candy corns with that brown layer too. And with these you get the added bonus of a little chocolate in your candy corn cookie. If you’re looking for a really delicious candy corn cookie, I’d mix up your best sugar cookie recipe and use that to create these cookies. The flavor in these is ok… but it definitely has that ‘packaged mix’ flavor and isn’t a big culinary flavor discovery or anything. That being said, Candy Corn Cookies are the perfect “bake-sale” cookie for a fall festival. And for that, the Betty Crocker mix works just fine. Tuck a few candy corns into a baggie with a couple of candy corn cookies, and it might just be a big seller! And be sure to hide the candy corns from your family or they might begin to disappear! If you’re looking for a few more fall treats, you might also enjoy my Pumpkin Pie Pop Tarts or these Pumpkin Cake Pops. Pumpkin Caramel Poke Cake, Candy Corn Fudge, and this Spiderweb Chocolate Cake are fun fall recipes too! This recipe was originally published in 2008. It was updated and re-published in 2017.
