The Cookie Factory

It isn't Halloween if I don't make SOME kind of sugar cookie!
I made these tonight for the YW I teach and I saved some for Reese and Quincy.
I can't wait to see their faces tomorrow morning when they awake to cookies for breakfast!
Simple Citrus Candy Corn Cookies:

Step 1- be lazy like me, and buy refrigerated sugar cookie dough.

Step 2- separate dough into thirds.
add the zest of 1 lemon and yellow food coloring to 1/3
add the zest of 1 orange and orange food coloring to 1/3

refrigerate for 20-30 minutes to let it set back up. The dough is too sticky to work with when it is too warm.

Step 3-roll dough into long "snakes" and place side by side (leave white in the middle)

Step 4-flatten with a rolling pin

Step 5-use a pizza cutter to slice triangles

Step 6-bake!
I made tiny cookies (about 1-2 inches) so they only took 7 or 8 minutes to bake @ 350* (even though package directions said 14 minutes)

Step 7-eat, or package them in cute Halloween treat bags and give them away.
I also have seen the cookies dipped in royal icing (the fat end) and sprinkled with colored sugar. I bought the sugar and I bet it would be super cute, but that seemed like way too much work for me tonight, so I skipped that step.

They're Spooooktacular!

PS-Nicki I know you wish you were here making Halloween sugar cookies with me! No silver dredges here!