Even if you’re not a fan of candy corn, you have to admit that the color combination is bright and beautiful and just screams of fall and Halloween! These candy corn pinwheel cookies bring you the classic color combination of candy corn in a delicious cookie.
They may look tricky to make, but they are actually really easy! You need a little extra time for chilling the dough, but the prep is simple and quick.
Candy Corn Pinwheel Cookies
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Servings: 24 Cookies
Prep: 10 minutes
Chilling Time: 75 minutes
Baking Time: 8-10 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour 35 minutes
Ingredients:
1 cup butter softened
1 ½ cup powdered sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp baking powder
¼ tsp salt
2 cups flour
Yellow and orange food coloring
Directions:
In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
Add in two eggs and mix until well incorporated.
In a small bowl mix together salt baking powder and flour.
Add flour mixture to butter mixture and mix until well incorporated.
Separate dough into 3 small bowls.
Add yellow food coloring to one dough, orange coloring to another, and leave the third bowl without coloring. Mix food coloring into dough until it’s the desired color.
Shape each color of dough into a small rectangle wrap in plastic wrap and chill for 30 minutes.
Repeat with each color of dough.
Once chilled, roll dough out into a large rectangle roughly ¼ inch thick.
Layer dough rectangles on top of each other yellow first, then orange, and lastly white.
Roll up tightly as you would cinnamon rolls and chill for 45 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees while the dough cools, and prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Once cooled, cut the dough in ¼ inch slices and place on the prepared baking sheet.
Bake for 8-10 minutes. Cookies should be lightly golden brown on the bottoms.
Candy Corn Pinwheel Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter softened
- 1 ½ cup powdered sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp salt
- 2 cups flour
- Yellow and orange food coloring
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Add in two eggs and mix until well incorporated.
- In a small bowl mix together salt baking powder and flour.
- Add flour mixture to butter mixture and mix until well incorporated.
- Separate dough into 3 small bowls.
- Add yellow food coloring to one dough, orange coloring to another, and leave the third bowl without coloring.
- Mix food into dough until it’s the desired coloring.
- Shape dough into a small rectangle wrap in plastic wrap and chill for 30 minutes.
- Repeat with each color of dough.
- Once cooled, roll dough out into a large rectangle roughly ¼ inch thick.
- Layer dough rectangles on top of each other yellow first, then orange, and lastly white.
- Roll up tightly as you would cinnamon rolls and cool for 45 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees while the dough cools, and prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Once cooled, cut the dough in ¼ inch slices and place on the prepared baking sheet.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes. Cookies should be lightly golden brown on the bottoms.
Nutrition
The nutrition information is calculated using a third party resource. The accuracy varies according to the brands you use, the portion sizes you serve, and so on. This information should only be used as a guide.
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