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Candy Corn Sugar Cookies

These soft sugar cookie bars use yellow and orange dough layers with a sweet vanilla cream cheese topping.

$0.23per serving $
30 minstart to table
24servings

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Ingredients

  • 1 cup butter at room temperature
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 1/2 tsp almond extract
  • 3 cups flour
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • orange food coloring
  • yellow food coloring
  • 1/4 cup unsalted butter
  • 4 oz cream cheese
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla
  • 2 cups powdered sugar

Steps

  1. Heat the oven to 350 F and grease a 9-by-13-inch pan.
  2. Beat butter, sugar, egg, and almond extract, then mix in flour, baking powder, and salt.
  3. Divide the dough into three portions, tint one yellow and one orange, and leave one plain.
  4. Press the plain dough into the pan, add the orange dough, then add the yellow dough.
  5. Bake for 20 minutes and cool in the pan for 5 minutes.
  6. Beat cream cheese, butter, vanilla, and powdered sugar until smooth, then spread over the bars.

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