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These soft pumpkin cookies are bomb. You can make them with homemade pumpkin puree or used canned, but you're going to be asking for more.
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Pumpkin Cookies with Homemade Pumpkin Puree

Soft, tasty, cake like pumpkin cookies with a light glaze.
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword pumpkin cookies
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes
Servings 24
Author Christina Kamp

Ingredients

  • 2 1/2 C flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp sea salt
  • 1/2 C soft butter
  • 1 1/2 C raw sugar (or white if you don't have raw)
  • 1 C homemade pumpkin puree
  • 1 egg
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 2 C powdered sugar
  • 4 T milk
  • 1 T melted butter
  • 1 tsp vanilla

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees
  • In a medium bowl, cream together the 1/2 cup of butter and raw sugar.
  • Add pumpkin, egg, and 2 teaspoons vanilla to butter mixture, and beat until creamy.
  • Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a separate bowl. If you want to use Gina's spices, you could add them now, cinnamon, nutmeg and ground cloves.
  • Mix into wet ingredients.
  • Drop on cookie sheet by tablespoonfuls.
  • Bake for 15 to 20 minutes in the preheated oven.
  • Cool cookies.
  • To Make Glaze: Combine confectioners' sugar, milk, 1 tablespoon melted butter, and 1 teaspoon vanilla.
  • Drizzle over cooled cookies with a fork.

Notes

Adapted from Gina on AllRecipes.com