The BEST Pumpkin Cookies with Cream Cheese Icing! Combined a few of my favorite recipes for delicious & surely fattening cookies!
Cookie Ingredients:
- 1 cup softened butter (or melt in microwave)
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp nutmeg
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1/2 can (15oz) can pumpkin puree
- 2 cups white flour
Frosting Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup butter softened
- 1 8oz package cream cheese softened
- 3 tsp vanilla extract
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
How To:
- Preheat oven to 350
- Beat butter & sugar in mixer until smooth
- Add baking powder, baking soda, egg, vanilla, salt, cinnamon, & nutmeg
- Add pumpkin
- Add flour slowly & mix to combine
- Add dough to cookie sheets (ungreased) heaping cookie dough scoop size, 2 inches apart
- Bake 10-12 min on 350 until tops are set & bottoms are starting to brown
- Take out and cool, on pan or wire rack
- For frosting: Beat cream cheese, vanilla extract, and butter until smooth
- Add powdered sugar slowly then add cinnamon
- Frost cookies with a spoon or with a piping bag with a 1M tip
- Sprinkle with cinnamon
Eat within 24 hours or refrigerate once frosted because cookies will turn very soft.