I love candy corn!  The tiny little nuggest of honey sweetness make my mouth happy.  My kids love them too.  Candy corn is a great motivator to get my children to practice their piano and violins.  I’ve had a hankering to make some cute candy corn cookies and found a couple of neat recipes.  The first one is from Country Living Magazine http://www.countryliving.com/halloween/autumn-treats-1007.  These cookies would be the perfect thing to take to a Thanksgiving gathering!  They recommend tinting refrigerator cookie dough orange.  Cutting out triangle shapes and baking the cookies.  Then dipping the wide end in melted chocolate and the tip in white chocolate.  I plan to try it by making my sugar dough from scratch and throwing in a box of orange gelatin to tint and flavor the dough.  I like orange and chocolate together–a lot!

The next recipe is for slice and bake cookies from Taste of Home Magazine http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Candy-Corn-Cookies  They consider this a halloween treat.  We don’t celebrate halloween around here and figure corn makes a lot of sense at harvest and Thanksgiving.