Chocolate Candy Corn Sugar Cookies (plus a Vanilla Variation)
- Ready In:
- 32mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Serves:
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36
ingredients
directions
- Preheat oven to 350°F Place butter and sugar in a medium bowl and beat well using a wooden spoon.
- Add in egg yolk, vanilla, baking powder and salt, and continue to mix until combined.
- Add flour and cocoa and mix until a dough forms.
- Scoop out level teaspoons of dough and form into balls.
- Place dough on cookie sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes, or until the edges are firm and the cookies feel dry to the touch.
- Remove pan from the oven and immediately press a candy corn in the center of each cookie.
- Allow cookies to cool on the pan for one minute before placing them on a wire rack to cool completely.
- VANILLA VARIATION: Simply omit the cocoa and increase the flour to 3/4 cup; otherwise proceed the same as above.
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Reviews
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A very simple, soft cookie that was delicious. I love how easy it was to make, I made the vanilla version and the dough was a little dry-- I had to add some water to the batter-- but the cookies turned out delicious. I'm ready to make a second batch of these to sell at a bake sale. The only downside is that the recipe only makes about 24 very small cookies.
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Great cookies! Used up almost all my leftover candy corn (which was the plan), but then had to scrounge for another bag, because my fiance and his parents wanted more! I made the vanilla ones, and the only changes I made were to use a whole egg and part whole wheat flour. I also pressed 2 candies into the top of each cookie, instead of just one. I plan on using this recipe again, even just to make plain sugar cookies, and will also try making the dough much thicker to use for cut-outs (what I ended up with this was quite runny, and I actually just dropped the cookies on the sheet, rather than forming balls). Thanks Vino Girl for such a great recipe!
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Vino Girl
United States
My husband and I married straight out of college in July of 1992. I work as the Assistant Manager at a wine shop which allows me to drink on the job! (OK, not that much, but it's still a fun job...) Besides helping customers choose wine they will like (and also help with food and wine pairings for their menus), I also get to help with the catering end of the business, so I get to spend a fair amount of time in the kitchen making fun appetizers and beautiful food displays. I also work part-time at the fromagerie next door. So yeah - that means I eat on the job, too. :^D
We live on several peaceful wooded acres on a cute little river in rural NE Wisconsin, with a cranky old-lady Burmese and whatever stray outdoor cats that have decided to adopt us on any given day. The cute puppy in the picture is Jake, our Elhew-bred English Pointer that we brought home on Easter weekend 2007. I've also got 2 painted turtles named Dennis and Fuzz, and a bunch of fish (koi and goldfish, along with the guppies & swordtails in the turtle tank).
I USUALLY eat and cook healthy, but I rarely pass up dessert, either. I do not eat red meat, and try to limit other animal products, too. I love to bake, although I seem to collect a lot of scone and biscotti recipes which I NEVER get around to making. I bake and eat A LOT of cookies and muffins... I almost always reduce the sugar by 1/4 and use whole wheat pastry flour for at least part of the flour. Those two changes do so much to make recipes healthier without compromising taste. I try to reduce fat whenever I can, too, but while I want to eat healthy, I still want to ENJOY what I eat!!!
I seem to give a lot of 4 and 5 star reviews here - I seem to have a pretty good sense of what I like by looking at a recipe before I try it. Thank you to anyone that tries my recipes in return, or photographs them.
Amber:
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Charlotte (May 27, 1992-June 1, 2009):
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Ashley: Adopted October 8, 1996 - Passed Away January 6, 2009
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