Candy Corn Cookies

These cookies are shortbread, and are not actually MADE from candy corn, but they are tasty, require only three ingredients, and are sure to impress your family and friends at Halloween time.

Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup margarine or butter, softened
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• Yellow food coloring
• Red food coloring

Mix butter (or marg.) and sugar in a large bowl. It will be crumbly! Stir in flour and then scrape out of the bowl onto some waxed paper. Now you will divide the dough into parts. 3 parts dough will be for the orange, 2 parts for the yellow, and 1 part for the white. (You can divide it up into sixths first if you want to be really accurate).

For the dough with 3 parts, mix with 10 drops of yellow food coloring and 4 drops of red. I like to mix this with my bare hands, because shortbread dough can be crumbly and your hands will help moisten it. For the dough with 2 parts, mix with 7 drops of yellow food coloring. And, of course, leave the 1 part of dough alone! (It looks like playdoh!)

On top of waxed paper (or plastic wrap), pat the yellow dough into a 1/2 inch thick rectangle that is 9X2 inches. You can eyeball it, or actually measure it like I did, since it was my first time making these! Pat the orange dough into a 3/4 inch thick rectangle measuring 9X1 3/4 inches.

Place the orange rectangle on top of the yellow, and roll out the remaining white dough as if you were rolling a log until it's 9X3/4 inch. Place that on top of the orange. Wrap the waxed paper or plastic wrap around the dough, carefully pressing it into a triangle shape. Roll it a few times to get the different colors of dough to smoosh together a little.

Chill in fridge for 2 hours or until hardened. ...and we're back! Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and grab a cookie sheet and a sharp knife. Cut into 1/4 inch slices. I would do all the slicing at once, while the dough is as chilled as possible. Make slices quickly (the dough is so hard that it will be easy to cut through). Arrange on a cookie sheet. Bake for 10-12 minutes, or until they look set, i.e., not shiny. It should make about 3 dozen.

October 22, 2007

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