• Preheat the oven to 350°F, line two cookie sheets with silicone baking mats.
• Use a stand mixer with the paddle attachment, beat the butter, oil, sugar, and confectioners sugar until combined.
• Beat in the egg, cotton candy extract, and heavy whipping cream until combined
• Mix dry ingredients; in a medium size mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, corn starch, salt, and baking powder.
• Gradually beat the dry ingredients into the wet and continue beating until a dough forms.
• Using a medium cookie scoop and food scale (optional)scoop out a small amount of dough and weigh it. You want your dough to be 2.2oz or close to make 12 equal size cookies.
• Roll the cookie dough into a ball and place it on the cookie sheet, pressing into a thick disk.
• Repeat steps until you have 6 even-size cookie dough disks on your cookie trays Bake in the oven for 10 minutes.
• Allow the cookies to cool completely on a wire cooling wrack while you make the frosting.

Cotton Candy Frosting

• Use a standing mixer with beaters attached, beat the butter, confectioners sugar, heavy whipping cream, and cotton candy extract until creamy.
• Split the frosting between two small bowls.
• Mix in 3 drops of the pink gel food coloring into 1 bowl of frosting,
• Mix in 3 drops of the sky blue gel food coloring into the second bowl of frosting.
• Scoop the pink frosting onto 1 side of the piping bag and the blue frosting onto the other side of the piping bag.
• Pipe swirls around each cookie and sprinkle some pink and purple nerd candies on top.
• Cookies are ready to serve.