Candy Corn Sugar Cookie Bars

These super soft and sweet Candy Corn Sugar Cookie Bars are the perfect Halloween Treat! They’re easy to make and taste loads better than candy corn.

I know I’ve posted WAY too many sweet things in a row but I made these  this weekend and just had to share them with you before Halloween.  

I made these for a Halloween party we went to but it made more than we could all eat so I took the leftovers to church the next day to give to the kids I teach.  They were thrilled!  Of course they were.  It’s sugar.  They really did love them though.  We had one extra and a girl suggested we divide it in 4… and give them all to her.  haha… No.  To be fair to everyone I ate it.  Good choice.

These are super yummy and SOFT!  One of my biggest pet peeves is a hard sugar cookie.  Ewww.  Thanks, but no thanks.  Oh and they are fairly easy to make.  The dough is a little tricky to spread but frosting this is sooooo much faster (like 99 times faster) than frosting individual sugar cookies.

Honestly, I don’t really like candy corn (didn’t eat a single one of those candies).  I love these cookies though but really the only thing they have in common with candy corn is the colors and absence of chocolate.  If you are a candy corn lover feel free to sprinkle them on top of the bars immediately after frosting so they stick.

K, as a little bonus you get to see my daughter chow down on one.  The day I made and photographed these cookies I just happened to dress Carly in a festive orange shirt.  While snapping some shots of the cookies I just had to give Carly one because she matched so perfectly.  

So many cute faces!  I can’t get enough of this girl’s chubby cheeks!  Oh and if you couldn’t tell, she really enjoyed the cookie.  Success!

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Candy Corn Sugar Cookie Bars

Prep Time35 minutes mins

Cook Time15 minutes mins

Total Time50 minutes mins

Servings: 24

Author: Garnish and Glaze

Ingredients

For the Dough:

• ▢ 1/2 cup 1 stick butter, room temperature
• ▢ 1 cup sugar
• ▢ 2 eggs
• ▢ 1 teaspoon vanilla
• ▢ 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• ▢ 1/2 teaspoon salt
• ▢ 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• ▢ Yellow and Orange food coloring, I use the gel kind

For the Frosting:

• ▢ 1/4 cup 1/2 stick butter, softened
• ▢ 2 ounces cream cheese, softened
• ▢ 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• ▢ 2 cups powdered sugar
• ▢ 1-2 tablespoon milk

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 375 and grease a 9x13 baking pan (if you have that size of baking sheet that works too).
• In a medium mixing bowl, combine flour, salt, and soda and set aside.
• With an electric standing mixer, cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add one egg at a time and then add the vanilla. Add the dry ingredients and mix until almost combined. Take out half the dough (you can put it in the bowl the dry ingredients used to be in).
• With the dough left in the bowl of the standing mixer, add yellow food coloring (I like the gel kind). Mix until evenly mixed in. Spread evenly in the bottom of the prepared pan. I recommend dropping the dough on the pan in globs and then spread. Scrape out as much of the yellow dough as possible.
• Put the bowl back in the mixer and mix the remaining dough with orange food coloring (or yellow and red to make orange). This is trickier to spread so you definitely want to apply the dough in spoonfuls evenly over the yellow layer and then just spread out each little glob of dough until the surface is smooth. Pop it in the oven for 13-16 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean and when you press on the surface it springs back. Allow to cool completely.
• Beat butter and cream cheese together until smooth and creamy. Mix in vanilla and then add the powdered sugar a little at a time (don't want a powdered sugar dust cloud!). Add milk to reach desire consistency and beat until combined.
• Apply frosting to cooled cookie in an even layer. Add sprinkles or candy corn if desired.
• Cut the bars into 4 even rows and then cut out the triangles (6 per row). I made mine have a 2 1/2 inch base and actually got my ruler out to make it exact. You will have two half triangles when you cute each row which are great to munch on (or give to the kids) while measuring and cutting the rest of the triangles.

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Recipe source: Inspired by Dessert Now Dinner Later, recipe slightly adapted from The Girl Who Ate Everything

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