Fall is the perfect time for pumpkin recipes. Pumpkin bread and muffins come to mind. Trader Joe’s has pumpkin ravioli and pumpkin cream cheese. We will definitely be trying those out this year. A few years ago a friend gave me a recipe for pumpkin cookies. Something different! Often times in the fall everyone has pumpkin bread and muffins but cookies – I’ve never seen those.
Pumpkin Cookies
Cookies:
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter
1 cup pumpkin
2 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp salt
(I add 1/2 tsp ground ginger and 1/2 tsp ground cloves)
Frosting:
1/4 cup butter
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups powdered sugar
1 Tbsp + milk
Preheat oven to 375.
Mix sugar, butter, and pumpkin together in a large bowl.
Mix the flour, baking soda, baking powder, ground cinnamon, (ginger and cloves), and salt in a small bowl.
Slowly mix the dry ingredients into the pumpkin mixture. Blend well.
Drop by the tsp full on cookie sheet and bake at 375 F for 10-12 min or until golden.
On stove top in small pan, melt butter, add vanilla, then powdered sugar, then milk. Mix until smooth. Dip the top of the cooled cookies in frosting; let sit to harden. If the frosting hardens in small pan, just put back on stove to heat and if necessary add a little milk). Enjoy!
The Hobbyholic 