Categories: Desserts

Pumpkin Cookies with Spices

I hope pumpkin season has not passed for you just yet. Or, thanks to the store supply of canned pumpkin, it can actually be all year around if one wishes.

Whatever the case is for you, this recipe is one to try should you wish to fight that pumpkin deficiency in you diet. Here they come – pumpkin cookies.

You can eat them plain or topped with cream cheese frosting, I prefer the latter.

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup of canned pumpkin puree
  • 2 1/2 cups of all purpose flour
  • 2/3 cups of white sugar
  • 2/3 cups of brown sugar
  • 3/4 cups of butter (about 7 oz) soft, at room temperature
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon of baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon of baking powder
  • 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1/2 teaspoon powdered ginger
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

How to prepare, step-by-step:

  1. Prepare ingredients:
    Pumpkin Cookies with Spices: Step 1
  2. Pour flour into a bowl:
    Pumpkin Cookies with Spices: Step 2
  3. Add baking soda:
    Pumpkin Cookies with Spices: Step 3
  4. And baking powder:
    Pumpkin Cookies with Spices: Step 4
  5. As well as cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg:
    Pumpkin Cookies with Spices: Step 5
  6. Whisk all these components together and set aside:
    Pumpkin Cookies with Spices: Step 6
  7. Put butter into the mixer bowl:
    Pumpkin Cookies with Spices: Step 7
  8. Add both, white and brown, sugars:
    Pumpkin Cookies with Spices: Step 8
  9. Pour in vanilla extract:
    Pumpkin Cookies with Spices: Step 9
  10. Crack eggs:
    Pumpkin Cookies with Spices: Step 10
  11. Put whisking attachment on and mix everything together until homogeneous:
    Pumpkin Cookies with Spices: Step 11
  12. Add pumpkin puree:
    Pumpkin Cookies with Spices: Step 12
  13. Mix:
    Pumpkin Cookies with Spices: Step 13
  14. Gradually mix flour and spices mix prepared earlier, spoon by spoon:
    Pumpkin Cookies with Spices: Step 14a
    Pumpkin Cookies with Spices: Step 14b
    Pumpkin Cookies with Spices: Step 14c

  15. Warm up oven to 350F. Lay cookie sheets with parchment paper and spoon cookie batter in to form cookies, make sure to position them at a distance from each other so they have space to grow:
    Pumpkin Cookies with Spices: Step 15
  16. Put cookie sheets into warmed up oven and bake for about 15 mins, then remove them from the oven and let cookies cool down till room temperature as is, on the sheet. Initially cookies may feel too soft, but this will go away with cooling down:
    Pumpkin Cookies with Spices: Step 16
  17. Once cookies are cooled down, they are ready, move them to a plate and serve as is
    Pumpkin Cookies with Spices: Step 17
  18. Or spread some cream cheese frosting on top for additional flavor:
    Pumpkin Cookies with Spices
Enjoy!
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Julia Volhina