Celebrate the holiday by combining a beloved candy with a beloved mouse.  These Mickey Candy Corn Sugar Cookies are the perfect sweet for Halloween!

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One of my favorite things is to bring the magic of the Disneyland parks home.  How can we add a little extra magic to our Halloween treats?  My making them resemble Mickey Mouse, of course.

With an easy sugar cookie recipe, these cut-out sugar cookies are decorated with the white, orange, and yellow of traditional candy corn.  Want to add a little extra something? Make half of your cookies Minnie Mouse inspired with a piped bow.

A little throwback photo for you!  Back when it first opened, Disney California Adventure prominently displayed letters spelling out “California” in front of the park.  The letters were then themed for holidays including Halloween and Christmas.

I have such happy memories within  both parks, especially during these holiday seasons.

To keep the fun of the Halloween season at the Disneyland Resort going, I’m so thrilled to share Candy Corn Mickey Cookies. A yummy cookie recipe is decorated with the colors of the traditional candy corn to make a magical treat for Halloween.

Mickey Candy Corn Sugar Cookies

Ingredients

Cookie Dough Ingredients

1 c. unsalted sweet cream butter, softened

1 1/2 c. powdered sugar

1 tsp. vanilla

1 egg

3 c. flour

1 tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. cream of tartar

Icing Ingredients

4 egg whites

1/2 tsp. cream of tartar

1/2 tsp. vanilla

4 1/2 c. powdered sugar

Orange & yellow food coloring

3 piping bags

3 squeeze bottles

Edible marker

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Prepare your cookie sheet by covering with parchment paper & set aside.

In a stand mixer, beat powdered sugar, vanilla, egg, and butter together until well combined and creamy.

In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking soda, and cream of tartar.

Gradually add dry ingredients into your mix, mixing dough on low speed.  Finish mixing ingredients by hand.

Now you’re ready to roll out your dough.  On a lightly floured cutting board, knead dough a few times.  Roll out dough to approximately 1/2 inch thickness. Using a Mickey Mouse cookie cutter, cut out 12 Mickeys.

Bake for 8 minutes, or until edges are golden brown on prepared cookie sheet.

Set aside on rack until completely cool.

When it comes to baking, it’s the decorating that’s my favorite part.  These Mickey cookies will be divided into three sections and filled with royal icing.  

Using your stand mixer, combine egg whites, cream of tartar, vanilla, and powdered sugar.  Mix until well  combined and when stiff peaks form.

Separate icing into three bowls.  Leave the first white.  Add a few drops of yellow to the next bowl, and a few drops of orange food coloring to the last.  Mix icing until colors are well blended.

Add approximately 1/4 c. of each color of icing into individual piping bags.

The remaining icing will allow you to fill in your color.  Add 2-4 tsp of water into each of the three bowls.  Then you can transfer the icing into your squeeze bottles.

A food-safe marker will help you divide your cookies into three equal sections.

The cookies pictured feature both Mickey Mouse and his gal pal Minnie, so they needed a bow.  Since the bow is low on the cookie, there isn’t any need to use a separate cookie cutter.  If you want to add Minnie to the mix, you can also you the edible marker to sketch bows for Minnie.

Using your piping bags to outline the three sections on your cookies and bows for any Minnie cookies.

Using the squeeze bottles, fill in the newly sectioned cookies with thinned icing.

Let cookies dry overnight before packing up for your Disney day!

Looking for more Mickey Mouse baking ideas? 

Bringing the magic of the Disney parks home with fun holiday baking projects is a favorite here in Clementine County.   What are you baking this Halloween?