Learn how to make candy corn shaped sugar cookies from scratch! They’re soft, chewy, and naturally dyed.No food coloring – and no cookie cutters required either! So cute and perfect for fall!    A quick note… To date, this is probably the most involved recipe I’ve ever published on Amy’s Healthy Baking.Therefore, I’m sharing a lot of tips about the ingredients you’ll need, the process, and step-by-step photos.

It’s a long blog post with a lot of information, but I want to make sure your candy corn sugar cookies turn out just as cute — and with the perfect taste and texture too! One night in mid-September, thoughts of cute Halloween-themed treats drifted through my mind while I brushed my teeth and climbed into bed.Each year, I admired the adorable sweets I saw on Pinterest: green marshmallow Frankensteins, Oreo truffle spiders, Milano cookie gravestones, white chocolate pretzel skeletons… Yet I worried about creating something similar to share here on my blog.What would people think if I used store-bought marshmallows, gummy worms, or licorice twists to make something that looked just as fun — when my blog currently has a reputation for mostly “clean” recipes? That’s a much longer story for another day…     But a few hours later, I woke up in the middle of the night from a completely unrelated dream with what felt like a brilliant idea.

Candy corn sugar cookies! Not traditional candy corn… But harvest candy corn.The kind that ha

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