Candy Corn Sugar Cookie Bars

I’ve said it before but most of my recipe inspirations come when I am alone at the grocery store. You know those people that say, or maybe it’s one of those cliché jokes, I like long, romantic walks on the beach. Well, I love long romantic walks alone in the grocery store 🙂 haha But for real, I do.
I was at the grocery store the other night, well Target so not really the grocery store, and I saw some mini candy corns and they were just the cutest things ever and I knew I had to have them in my cart. Then I got to thinking about sugar cookie bars and that’s how these super cute & festive candy corn sugar cookie bars were born and the rest is history…….

Excuse the awful picture but I wanted to give you a tip for spreading the two different doughs. Instead of just dropping the entire ball of dough onto the cookie sheet and then trying to spread it, just drop flattened chunks of dough all over the cookie sheet and then piece them together. Doing it this way is a lot easier and will yield more even layers.
Don’t worry too much about how smooth the top layer is. Remember, you will slather on the yummy cream cheese buttercream frosting on top of it so it won’t matter.

Ingredients

• candy corn sugar cookie bars
• 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
• 2 cups granulated sugar
• 4 large eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 5 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• red & yellow food coloring

frosting

• 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened
• 4 oz cream cheese, softened
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
• 4 cups powdered sugar
• 2-4 tablespoons half-n-half
• candy corn & Halloween sprinkles

Instructions

1. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare a cookie sheet (12"x17" or 13"x18") by spraying with cooking spray.
2. In the bowl of a stand mixer, or using a hand held mixer, cream butter and sugar until light & fluffy. This will take 2-3 minutes.
3. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing after each egg. Add vanilla and mix well.
4. In a separate bowl combine flour, salt, baking soda and stir with a whisk to combine. Add to the wet mixture and mix just until combined.
5. Divide the dough in half and place each half in a bowl. In one bowl, use the yellow food coloring to color the dough yellow. The easiest way is to use a hand held mixer to combine it. Color the other half of the dough orange; 3-4 drops red dye + about 8 drops yellow dye to make orange.
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