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Halloween Candy Buttons

October 5, 2014 by The Simple, Sweet Life 17 Comments

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Homemade Halloween candy buttons

Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve posted some quick and easy Halloween desserts, like candy corn meringue swirls and candy corn oreo bark. Well, this week turned out to be yet another busy week for me (cake baking, birthday parties, etc.), so in keeping with that quick and easy Halloween treat theme, I want to share a super fun, and easily customizable dessert with you: candy buttons. Not only can you customize them in terms of colors, but you can create a lot of fun flavor variations. And best of all, they come together super quick!

Halloween Candy Buttons
Makes about 10 strips (60 dots per strip) of candy buttons

What you’ll need:
1 lb. powdered sugar
4 tbsp. meringue powder
1/2 cup water
1 tsp. extract
Food coloring
Parchment paper

To make things a little easier on yourself, I recommend starting by printing out this template and cutting up your parchment strips. The icing will start to crust fairly quickly, so doing your prep work beforehand is important.

candy button template

For those of you that don’t know, candy buttons are essentially royal icing, so we’ll be mixing up our icing the exact same way we’d make royal icing. In a large bowl, combine your meringue powder and water, and whisk until the powder has dissolved and the mixture is frothy. Add your extract and powdered sugar, and beat on high with an electric mixer until stiff peaks form. If you’re wondering why I’m not specific about the kind of extract I’m using, it’s because this is what I was talking about earlier when I said you could customize the flavor. The possibilities are truly only limited by the extracts you can get your hands on! That being said, if you plan on making white dots, I recommend limiting your extracts to clear extracts, otherwise your dots will be off-white. For me, this means using almond, peppermint, or clear vanilla extracts, although you can see that I also have bubblegum and raspberry extracts as well (which are slightly pink and would have tinted the white dots).

Candy button flavoring

Once you have your royal icing, separate what you’re going to use into individual bowls and tint them whatever colors you’d like to use. Since we’re nearing Halloween, I chose to make candy corn colored dots, black/orange dots, and black/green/purple dots. Mix in your food coloring, and thin the royal icing to a 20 second consistency (that means dropping a blob of icing back in the bowl would take about 20 seconds to completely be reabsorbed). Spoon your icing into piping bags (or into the corner of resealable plastic bags) and pipe your icing onto your parchment strips using the template as a guide.

colored royal icing

Royal icing for candy buttons

To get nice, round dots, trying using a circular motion while piping, keeping the tip of your bag low to the parchment.

Halloween candy buttons

Halloween candy buttons

Now wasn’t that easy peasy?! Although I enjoy difficult projects that allow me to push my limits and improve my skills in baking/decorating, I also like to have quick and easy desserts to fall back on when I’m in a pinch for time. What’s your favorite quick and easy dessert? Share it with us in the comments!

Happy baking!

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Comments

  1. Sue says

    October 5, 2014 at 11:40 pm

    These are just too dang cute, and they really take me back to my childhood!

    Reply
    • The Simple, Sweet Life says

      October 6, 2014 at 5:38 am

      I’m so glad you like them! 🙂

      Reply
  2. Pam says

    October 6, 2014 at 2:58 am

    Cute, cute, cute, but where is the link to print the template?

    Reply
    • The Simple, Sweet Life says

      October 6, 2014 at 5:36 am

      It’s in the first paragraph right after the ingredients, but just for safe measures, you can find it here: http://images.marthastewart.com/images/content/web/pdfs/2012/good-things-candy-corn-dots-msl1012.pdf

      Reply
      • Pam says

        October 7, 2014 at 1:28 am

        Thank you……..

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        • The Simple, Sweet Life says

          October 8, 2014 at 10:54 pm

          You’re welcome! 🙂

          Reply
  3. Judith says

    October 9, 2014 at 6:47 am

    My nieces would love these as fake earrings!

    Reply
    • The Simple, Sweet Life says

      October 10, 2014 at 9:22 pm

      I never thought about it that way, but they definitely do look like those fake sticker earrings! 🙂

      Reply
  4. wesley says

    October 12, 2014 at 2:12 am

    Thank You an old Favorite

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    • The Simple, Sweet Life says

      October 27, 2014 at 8:20 pm

      They’re definitely an old favorite for me too! 🙂

      Reply
  5. Baking In Pyjamas says

    October 12, 2014 at 1:48 pm

    How creative, I love this idea. Thanks for linking up to Sweet and Savoury Sunday, stop by and link up again. Have a great day!! Laura@Baking in Pyjamas

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  6. Stephanie says

    October 13, 2014 at 9:39 pm

    LOVE this idea!! Can’t wait to try it! Thank you so much for linking up at Tasty Tuesday! Your recipe has been pinned to the Tasty Tuesday Pinterest board! Please join us again this week!

    Reply
  7. Jennifer Dawn says

    October 15, 2014 at 6:03 am

    I love this idea! This is one I’m really, really wanting to try now! Thanks for sharing!

    Reply
    • The Simple, Sweet Life says

      October 27, 2014 at 8:26 pm

      I hope you’ll try it out! 😀

      Reply
  8. A Kitchen Hoor says

    October 15, 2014 at 10:28 am

    How cool does that look?? I love all those colors. I never though of making my own dots. I’ll have to try this. Thank you for linking up with #FoodieFriday! Come back this week to see if you were featured and to link up more tasty recipes. http://akitchenhoor.blogspot.com/

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    • The Simple, Sweet Life says

      October 27, 2014 at 8:28 pm

      Now you’ll never have to buy candy buttons again! 😀

      Reply

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