Candy Corn Cookies

From time to time I get an idea when working in the kitchen that is brilliant. Other times I get an idea that is a total flop. The jury is still undecided on what I came up with today.

A week or so ago, my sister and I were talking about cookies and making them in the shape of candy corn. She told me about a way of layering the colored dough she had read about and I had some ideas myself. Today I tried to make it work. I did end up with some candy corn looking cookies, but they were nothing like what I had envisioned, and probably not what my sister was thinking of either.

I was looking through my cookbooks for a recipe to use and found one for sugar cookies that I thought would work. I mostly picked it because it used oil instead of butter, which would save me some time since my butter was frozen.

So I mixed up the dough, using olive oil instead of vegetable, since I still have a lot, worked in the orange and yellow coloring, and set about trying to execute the ideas in my head.

This is what I ended up with.



Lots and lots of tiny little triangles that I stood on end.

I had no idea what would happen when they were baked. I just hoped they wouldn't turn into pancakes.

Luckily most of them stayed standing and they turned into crisp little cookies.

Here's the after baking picture.



Kind of cute. I'm glad they mostly kept their shape. Unfortunately, they aren't very good cookies. I think it's because of a combination of over handling the dough to get the color in and the olive oil. I think I might end up feeding them to the ducks at the lake.