Candy Corn Sugar Cookies

Ingredients:
2 sticks unsalted butter, softened
1 cup sugar
3 cups flour
1 egg
2 tablespoons lemon juice
2 teaspoons lemon zest
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
Red Food Coloring
Yellow Food Coloring
1/2 cup granulated sugar (dusting)

Directions:
Cream butter and sugar in electric mixer.  Add lemon juice, lemon zest, egg, and salt.  Mix until well combined.  Add flour and baking soda.  Mix until well combined.  Divide dough into thirds.  Press 1/3 of the dough into a lined (wax, foil, parchment) loaf pan.  Place another 1/3 dough into a bowl and add food coloring to make orange.  Follow the direction on the food coloring box.  Once your dough is the preferred color of orange press on top of the white dough in the loaf pan.  Next mix the remaining 1/3 dough in a bowl with yellow food dye until desired color.  Press on top of orange layer.  Cover and refrigerate until chilled (2 hours, but best overnight).  Once chilled remove from loaf pan and cut 1/4 inch thick.  Then cut those slices into triangles (about 5-6 triangles per slice).  Place on a parchment lined or greased cookie sheet and bake at 375 degrees for 7-10 minutes.  Once cookies are baked immediately dip in sugar to dust them.  Cool on wire rack.

My babies.  :) 

Yesterday was Halloween and boy was it exciting around here.  This was our first year we stayed home and did trick-or-treating around our house.  Tova had a blast!  She dressed up as Buzz Lightyear and went house to house knocking on doors all by herself (I was close by though).  Boden was supposed to be a little green alien from Toy Story to go along with Tova's costume but of course he grew out of it.  So he was Tigger, which was Tova's outfit last year.  To go along with the festivities I baked these wonderful little lemon sugar cookies.


I didn't change anything with these cookies.  I found to get the right color I needed to use the egg dying color ratio on the box, but other than that everything was great. My sister in law and I were getting together to make cookies and I thought these would be perfect to bring over there and bake.  I made the dough the night before and just cut them at her house.  I trimmed up a few cookies that were not as straight on the sides and made that dough into little round cookies. 

Candy corn cookies with Tova's little pumpkins that she colored on.

I hope you all had a fun day yesterday and your tummies aren't aching too bad.  I have been trying to be so good today, but I feel the bucket of candy is just staring at me saying, "EAT ME!!!  EAT ME!!!!!"  I keep finding I am staying upstairs a lot today so I don't have to walk by it.  Don't forget these cookies can have a Thanksgiving or Christmas twist just by changing the food coloring.  :)




(Recipe source: http://kathiecooks.blogspot.com/2010/10/candy-corn-sugar-cookies.html)