Description
Candy Corn Halloween Pinwheel Cookies are the perfect Halloween sugar cookies. They're cute and fun and easy... with the festive colors of everybody's favorite Halloween candy: Candy Corn.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 cup butter softened
- 1 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 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 each dough ball into a small rectangle. Wrap each in plastic wrap and chill for 30 minutes.
- Once cooled, roll each dough ball 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°F while the dough chills, 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.
Notes
Place any leftover spiral cookies in an airtight container. If you have a large batch, use parchment paper between layers to prevent them from sticking together.
- Room Temperature. The cookies will stay fresh at room temperature for up to a week.
- Refrigerator. The cookies will last up to 2 weeks in the refrigerator but they may begin to dry out.
- Freezer. The finished cookie dough can also be frozen. Thaw overnight in the fridge before slicing and baking.
- Prep Time: 15
- Cook Time: 22
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
