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Soft Pumpkin Cookies
As noted in my previous post, I made up a bunch of cookies yesterday for the holiday season. These are not the first I made out of the bunch, but a friend of mine said she wanted the recipe so I'm writing this one up first!
So, I have a love affair with pumpkin. I already posted about my pumpkin pie cake, for example. These particular cookies I found last year, I don't even remember from where anymore, and straight away fell in love. They are very, very soft, which I adore in a cookie, and the glaze on top makes them have that little extra something. Also, they're easy. Very easy.
Ingredients:
Cookies:
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
1/2 cup butter (1 stick), softened
1 cup pureed Pumpkin (ie. Libby's)
1 large egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
Optional: 1/2 cup chocolate chips or nuts
Glaze:
2 cups sifted powdered sugar (aka confectioner's sugar)
3 Tbsp milk
1 Tbsp melted butter
1 tsp vanilla extract
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350F. Grease baking sheets.
Combine flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt in medium bowl. Beat sugar and butter in large bowl until well blended. Beat in pumpkin, egg and vanilla extract until smooth. Gradually beat in flour mixture. Drop by rounded tablespoon onto prepared baking sheets.
Bake for 15 to 18 minutes or until edges are firm. Cool on baking sheets for 2 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool completely.
For Glaze:
Combine the powdered sugar, milk, butter and vanilla in a small bowl until smooth. Once the cookies are completely cool, drizzle it over them.
Makes about 30.
It's not always necessary to pre-mix up flour mixtures as all directions will tell you to do, but I did this time.
The sugar and the butter all mixed up. It doesn't need to be completely smooth, just so long as there aren't chunks of butter.
After all of the ingredients have been added. It's quite sticky, so don't go adding more flour thinking it's not right.
How did I get such lovely little balls when the dough is so sticky, you ask? I have an awesome cookie scoop from Pampered Chef! Seriously, it makes life much easier.
Fresh from the oven!
And, finally...
Yum! I recommend using parchment paper when you glaze, as you can see I did here. It makes clean up way easy and the cookies do not stick to it.
And there you have it! This time around I didn't add chocolate chips or nuts, but I have used chocolate chips in the past, and while you may be thinking to yourself, "pumpkin and chocolate?!" trust me, they work together very well. Also, you may have some glaze left over. This time around I only made half the glaze and didn't have enough for all of the cookies, but last time I made all of it and had too much! Maybe 3/4 the amount is in order? Next time.
- Pumpkin Snickerdoodles
It's fall, which means it's pretty much the season of the pumpkin recipes. While I have been making my super awesome delicious Pumpkin Coffee Cake a lot, I realized I hadn't even posted any new pumpkin recipes on here yet this year. The horror!...
- Pumpkin Coffee Cake
You guys, this cake. This cake! This cake is amazeballs. For. Real. If you like pumpkin at all, even if you're not entirely sure you're that into pumpkin... make it anyway! And if you don't like pumpkin? Who are you?! Pumpkin is so...
- Peanut Butter Middles
I saw these cookies over on the Tasty Kitchen Blog and thought they looked right up my alley. Peanut butter? Chocolate? Peanut butter in the middle of chocolate? Please and thanks. They were a big hit and fairly easy to make, though I will go into...
- Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
These cookies are a staple of mine that I bust out whenever I feel like a quick batch of cookies. Except that I always forget that they're not necessarily as quick as you'd like, because you do have to refrigerate the dough for 1-3 hours. Details,...
- Peanut Butter Balls
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