Now that fall has arrived and the weather is cooling down all I want is those fall spices in baked goods like cookies. This recipe of pumpkin spice cookies with cream cheese frosting is amazing and I think one of the best cookie recipes I’ve ever made.
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This recipe was so easy to make. I’m definitely going to be making it again because of how quick it is. And of course how delicious it is. The cream cheese frosting really brings an extra great element to this recipe and it really wouldn’t be the same without it.
Pumpkin Sprice Cookies
Ingredients
Cookies
- 2-1/2 Cups All Purpose Flour
- 1 tsp Baking Soda
- 1 Tsp Baking Powder
- 2 tsp Ground Cinnamon
- 1-1/2 tsp Pumpkin Spice See below
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 3/4 Cup Granulated White Sugar
- 3/4 Cup Brown Sugar
- 1/2 Cup Soft Unsalted Butter
- 1 Cup Canned Pumpkin Puree Not pie filling
- 1 Egg
- 1 tsp Vanila Extract
Frosting
- 4 oz Cream Cheese
- 4 tbsp Solf Unsalted Butter
- 2 Cup Powdered Sugar
- pinch Salt
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 1/4 tsp Cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp Nutmeg
Instructions
Cookies
- First thing you can do is preheat your oven to 350 degrees F and line your backing sheets with parchment paper so you don't burn the bottoms of your cookies.
- In a large bowl add all you dry ingredients together; flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, pumpkin spice and salt. Whisk together and set aside for later.
- In a mixer cream together butter and both sugars for a few minutes. Next add pumpkin, egg, and vanilla and mix until completely combined
- Lastly add in your dry ingredients that you set aside. I split the dry ingredients in 2 when adding to avoid flour flying everywhere once the mixture was turned on.
- Place large spoonfuls of the cookie dough onto your baking sheets. It should fit about 6 cookies at a time. Once the dough is on the cookie sheet form the dough into discs flattening slightly. The dough doesn't change shape much when baking so this step is a must.
- Bake for 9-12 minutes. If you aren't sure if the cookies have baked enough check the bottoms. They will start to brown slightly when done. Once done place on a cooling rack while you get the frosting ready.
Cream Cheese Frosting
- First up is to beat together the butter and cream cheese until light and fluffy. Depending on how high you have the speed this could take 2-5 minutes. Look for a lighter and fluffier consistency for completion.
- Next add the powdered sugar (in increments again), salt, the vanilla extract, cinnamon and nutmeg. Beat until combined and you have your desired texture for frosting.
- There should be enough frosting make for each cookie to have a lot. You can frost by using a piping bag or palette knife like i did.
Notes
Hope you enjoy this pumpkin spice cookies with cream cheese frosting recipe. I will be making it again next week for a friends Thanksgiving I’m hosting. Original recipe here.
You can also check out my fall recipe for Pumpkin Swirl Cheesecake here.
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Finally it is cooler! These cookies sound yummy!!!
They are so good!
These look delicious! I have never been that involved in the “pumpkin spice” trend but this year I actually bought the special edition of the Pumpkin Spice SPAM and am going to cook with it!
Awesome! There are so many great recipes to make with pumpkin and the fall spices 🙂
This is such a good recipe for this fall season! I’ll be trying it for sure ❤️
Yay! I’m sure you’ll love it 🙂
These look so yummy. I am just now coming around to all things pumpkin. It only took 35 years! 🙂
I didn’t used to like pumpkin but now it’s all I want haha
Yumm! These look so delicious! |
Thank you! It was 🙂