Candy Corn White Chocolate Chip Cookies - Fun, festive Halloween themed cookies. THE BEST chocolate chip cookie EVER! I ate WAY too many of these!! Shortening, bread flour, salt, sugar, brown sugar, eggs, vanilla, white chocolate chips, gel food coloring. Can make cookies with regular chocolate chips. You can also skip the food coloring if you aren't making it for Halloween. Seriously THE BEST cookie recipe!!!
Preheat oven to 375ºF. Line baking sheet with parchment paper. Set aside.
Combine bread flour, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat together shortening and sugars until creamy. Add eggs and vanilla. Mix until fluffy.
Gradually beat in flour mixture.
Divide dough into three equal portions. Stir in 2/3 cup of white chocolate chips to one portion.
Add orange food coloring to one portion - mixing well. Stir in 2/3 cup white chocolate chips.
Add yellow food coloring to remaining portion of dough, mixing well. Stir in 2/3 cup white chocolate chips.
Take a two teaspoons of each color of dough, and roll into a ball. Place on prepared baking sheet.
Bake for 10 to 12 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool on baking sheet for 2 to 3 minutes before removing to a cooling rack.
Notes:
This recipe uses shortening. I know I'm going to get tons of questions about this. NO, I have not made these with butter. If you choose to substitute butter for the shortening, it will totally change the texture of the cookie. I LOVED the cookie just the way it was. I wouldn't change it, but you can do anything you wish in your kitchen.
If you aren't a fan of white chocolate chips, you can use regular chocolate chips. I just used white chocolate chips to keep with the candy corn theme. You can also just make the cookies and not color the dough.
Can Chocolate Chip Cookies be made in advance? Yes! You can make the dough ahead of time and refrigerate it overnight.
Can Chocolate Chip Cookies be frozen? Yes! You can freeze the cookies baked or unbaked.
To freeze the cookie dough unbaked, scoop the dough into balls and freeze. After frozen, transfer the cookie dough into a freezer bag and store. You can bake the cookie dough frozen. Just add a few minutes to the cooking time.
To freeze the baked cookies, let the cookies thaw completely and place them in a freezer bag. Store in the refrigerator. Thaw and enjoy.