If you love candy corn, these Double Chocolate Candy Corn Cookies is the treat for you! Chewy, fudgy and loaded with your fall favorite candy, these candy corn cookies will be your new favorite Halloween cookie recipes!
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One of the BEST Halloween Cookie Recipes – Double Chocolate Candy Corn Cookies!
If you love candy corn, then these Double Chocolate Candy Corn Cookies are for you. These cookies are fantastic in Halloween goodie bags, classroom Halloween parties, bake sales and great as a treat for your Halloween party.
Simple to make, these double chocolate cookies are made extra fudgy with cream cheese in the dough!
Candy Corn Cookies: perfect for every candy corn lover!
Candy corn is one of those treats where you either love it or hate it. For me personally, I can’t get enough of the stuff! Plus, those yellow, orange and white kernels are just to pretty to resist.
As soon as I saw the candy corn on the shelves last week, I grabbed a big package to make a batch of these scrumptious Double Chocolate Candy Corn Cookies!
How do I make chocolate cookies fudgy?
Much like my Double Chocolate Mint Truffle Cookies, these cookies are uber soft and fudgy thanks to a dough made with cream cheese! That’s right, an 8 oz. package of cream cheese is added to the batter to make these cookies extra soft, fudgy and delicious!
I also use the extra big semi-sweet chocolate chips for these cookies. I’ve used mini chips as well as regular sized, but for this recipe, I thought the big guys would work well with the pretty candy corn kernels atop of these glorious cookies.
Pro-Tip: Don’t bake the candy corn. Place into the cookies AFTER baking.
One thing to note when baking up these beauties – leave adding the candy corn until after taking the cookies out of the oven. I tested these a few ways, and discovered that the candy corn holds up best when added to the tops of the hot cookies.
Baking the candy corn became a bit of a mess, as it will melt all over your baking sheets. The texture and flavor of the candy corn will then hold up much better if added at the end of the baking process.
The fudgy, delicious center of these cookies is amazing! Perfect for dunking in a big glass of milk!
If you love delicious Halloween Cookie recipes, check out some of my other Halloween treats:
- Candy Corn Krispie Cake – fantastic for candy corn lovers and perfect for a Halloween party!
- Halloween Candy Bark
- Mummy Marshmallow Pops
- Chocolate Sugar Cookie Spiders
- Halloween Spider Web Cupcakes
- Candy Corn Snack Mix over at Bless This Mess, Please
Planning on hosting a Halloween bash? Check out these posts:
- Spooktacular Halloween Party Foods
- Halloween Buffet Ideas – including Chocolate Donut Spiders and Spider Web Guacamole Dip
Here’s how this delicious Halloween Cookie Recipes come together:
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Double Chocolate Candy Corn Cookies
Equipment
- Sheet Pan These USA stainless steel sheet pans are great for one-pan meals!
- Silicone Baking Mat Ideal for anything that bakes on a sheet pan. The ultimate non-stick surface!
Ingredients
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup butte room temperature
- 1 (8 oz. pkg.) cream cheese room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 eggs
- 2 1/4 cups flour
- 1 cup cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 cup candy corn
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line baking sheets with non-stick silicone mats or parchment paper. Set aside.
- With a hand or stand mixer, cream together the butter and cream cheese. Add the sugar and cream together until fluffy. Add the eggs and vanilla extract and mix until combined. In a separate bowl sift together the flour, cocoa powder, salt and baking powder. Gradually add the dry ingredient mixture to the wet. Mix together until fully combined. Dough will be slightly stiff – you may have to mix the last of the dry ingredients by hand, and it may be too thick for the mixer. Fold in chocolate chips. Refrigerate dough for about 1 hour.
- Using a cookie scoop, or a tablespoon, scoop out dough and then roll dough into balls with your hands. Place 12 cookies on a sheet, and bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes. When cookies come out of the oven, immediately place about 4-5 kernels of candy corn on each cookie. Let cookies cool on the sheet for about 5 minutes, and then transfer to a cooling rack, to cool completely. Store cookies in an airtight container at room temperature.
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These cookies are perfect for a fall bake sale treat, a fun fall festival, or anytime your wanting a treat that has some fun candy corn prettiness!
I hope you get to enjoy the flavors of fall! Enjoy! ~Erin
They look so fun!
What a fun way to use candy corn!
These are the cutest cookies ever! I will have to make them this season! Thanks for sharing!
This looks fabulous! Thank you for linking up at the Creative K Kids’ Tasty Tuesdays! It’s great to party with you! I have pinned all your posts to our Tasty Tuesdays Pinterest Board! I hope to see you again this week! xo
Wow! These look really sweet and delicious. I think 6 would be enough at one sitting. LOL! Yummy. Thanks so much for sharing at #HomeMattersParty
Double chocolate sounds good!!
And I am featuring your post on my Friday Features this week.
Have pinned and shared!
Would love to have you stop by and link your other lovely posts.
Have a great weekend! Karren
Super cute for Halloween. Double chocolate is always my favorite!
Oh my goodness these look so delicious and so fun! I have some left over candy corn from another recipe and I can’t wait to use them up on this!
What a great looking cookie. Thanks for sharing with us at Throwback Thursday! Pinned and shared!
Looks amazing! Thanks for sharing at the Inspiration Spotlight party. Shared.