Candy Corn Sugar Cookie Bars
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These Candy Corn Sugar Cookie Bars are simple and stunning for your Halloween Party!
Today I am excited to take part in a Halloween series hosted by my friend Allison from Cupcake Diaries! It’s 30 days of Halloween recipes, party food, and printables! I’m day 23, so you can only imagine all the good stuff already shared this month! There is a full list at the bottom of this post, so be sure to check out what the other bloggers have to share and make your Halloween party a fun one!
For this series, I thought it would be festive to share this recipe for Candy Corn Sugar Cookie Bars! How fun are these?! Sugar cookie dough, colored and layered in a dish, baked, then covered in my favorite Cream Cheese Frosting recipe! I had to share the picture above to show you how easy it is to cut them into triangles. If you use parchment paper in the pan and leave the ends hanging out, you can pull the whole slab of cookie out of the pan after it’s baked, frost it, cut it in half lengthwise, and then cut your triangles. Easy peasy!
If you have a good eye, you have already realized that I did the colors in the wrong order…haha! I like the ombre progression I guess, but if most of your guests are children, they won’t care if you screw it up like I did! These are fun to eat nonetheless and taste great! For your OCD pleasure, I have written the directions correctly so you can have the proper candy corn color order. (Say that 5x fast!)
I hope you make these Candy Corn Sugar Cookie Bars for your Halloween party this year! Don’t forget to check out the other Halloween recipes, party food, and printables linked below.
Candy Corn Sugar Cookie Bars
Ingredients
- ½ cup (113 g) butter, room temperature
- 1 cup (200 g) granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 ½ Tbsp milk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 ½ cups (300 g) all-purpose flour, (stir, spoon & level)
- ½ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- orange and yellow food coloring, (I used Wilton's food coloring gels)
- 1 recipe The BEST Cream Cheese Frosting
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. Lay parchment inside a 9×13-inch baking dish with the ends hanging out the 13-inch sides (so you can lift out the cookie after it's baked) and spray the 9-inch edges with pan spray since they aren't covered with parchment.
- In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar. Add egg, milk and vanilla. Mix well.
- In a separate bowl, combine the flour, baking powder and salt. Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients until combined.
- Split dough in half and color one half orange and one half yellow.
- Press the yellow cookie dough onto the bottom of the baking dish; I used a mini rolling pin to roll mine evenly across the bottom of the pan.
- Press orange cookie dough onto the yellow cookie dough layer. I found it easiest to roll the orange cookie dough onto a lightly floured counter about the size of the dish, cut the orange dough into large squares and then assemble the squares on top of the yellow layer, smoothing over the cracks.
- Bake for 17 to 20 minutes or until edges are lightly golden. Cool completely.
- Pulling on both sides of the parchment paper, lift the cookie dough out of pan. Trim the crisp edges with a knife, if desired.
- Prepare The BEST Cream Cheese Frosting and spread it evenly over cooled cookie bars. Cut the large slab of cookie in half lengthwise, and then cut into triangles. Enjoy!
37 Comments on “Candy Corn Sugar Cookie Bars”
Hello,
This is such a great recipe, that I just HAD to share it with my readers. Your recipe made my “Best Halloween Party Desserts” list because i believe guests of any Halloween party will enjoy this recipe so much!! Check out the post!
Love,
Mariam
The Petite Bijou
http://www.thepetitebijou.com
Thanks! Cute roundup!
I made this recipe and had great success rolling each half of the dough on parchment paper. I rolled the yellow half on the parchment paper that went into the pan and rolled the orange on a different sheet, then flipped the orange dough onto the yellow.
That’s a great idea! Thanks for sharing your tips!!!
I made these last weekend for family and a friend with a daughter in the hospital. They were so cute and delicious! However, maybe because our altitude is not very high but 17 min. was way too long. (?) I had to do another batch and 10-11 minutes was plenty of time. Thanks for sharing a fun idea.
Wow, that’s crazy that they cooked that much faster! Sorry about that, but glad you could get them to work out!
I’d love too know how you frosted these-so pretty!
I actually have a tutorial for how to do it because I get asked a lot. 😉 https://www.dessertnowdinnerlater.com/2014/03/bakery-swirled-icing/
I love this! What a great Halloween treat…and it looks delicious. Beautiful pictures 🙂
Thank you so much!
These bars are too cute! You know, I didn’t even notice that the yellow and orange colors were in a different order than candy corn! 😉
I’m glad it’s not noticeable until I mentioned it, haha! Thanks Jocelyn!
These are GREAT! funny thing: I just made candy corn sugar cookie bars too but they are completely different than these. These are so adorable and Iove the frosting!
I just checked our your version and they are ADORABLE! You can’t go wrong with candy corn in any form 😉
These are so adorable and look delicious!!
Thank you Rachel! We enjoyed them very much!