soft_pumpkin_cookies
Food

Soft Pumpkin Sugar Cookies

December 21, 2014 /
Pumpkin Sugar cookies
Pumpkin Sugar cookies

These are inspired. I wanted to make sugar cookies one day this past week and I was on a baking kick. And my favourite cookies ever are the soft ones that you buy at the grocery store, but I wondered if I could make something similar and add pumpkin. I was also on a pumpkin kick last week because who doesn’t love pumpkin flavour? There’s something so wonderfully fresh and comforting about pumpkin spice foods and baked goods. So I decided to try to create some awesome pumpkin sugar cookies and let me tell you these turned out so good!!

Pumpkin Sugar cookies
Pumpkin Sugar cookies

I started with a basic sugar cookie recipe and then added one third of a can of pumpkin. I was hopeful they would remain soft cookies, but wasn’t sure they would comply because I was kind of winging it with this one. They are soft and perfect and the cream cheese icing was the proverbial icing on the cake.

Pumpkin Sugar cookies

Pumpkin Sugar Cookies with Cream Cheese Icing

Paula Schuck (ThriftyMommasTips
These Pumpkin sugar cookies are velvety and super addictive with a cream cheese icing glaze.
5 from 4 votes
Print Recipe Pin Recipe
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 8 minutes
Total Time 38 minutes
Course Baked Goods
Cuisine American
Servings 2 to 3 dozen
Calories 150 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • Three cups of flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • One teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon of salt
  • 1/3 can of pumpkin puree
  • one cup of butter room temperature
  • 1 1/2 cups of sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • Icing glaze
  • 1 cup of Icing sugar
  • 1 small package of cream cheese
  • 1 teaspoon of water add a toy bit more if you want the icing thin

Instructions
 

  • Mix butter and flour together with a beater. Add the baking soda, baking powder and salt. Keep beating. Add the sugar and add the eggs. Beat until there are no lumps while adding the 1/3 can of pumpkin puree.
  • Drop from a spoon onto a cooking sheet. If you want you can line the cookie sheet with wax paper to keep them from sticking. They will not be extremely hard or formed. Pumpkin makes them softer. Cook at 375 for 6 to 8 minutes. This should make 2 to 3 dozen depending on size of your cookies. The secret to making sure they are soft is to watch them closely and pull from the oven the minute you think they are cooked enough, then be sure to also package in an airtight container later when they are done and iced and ready to eat.
  • When they have cooled you can make the icing glaze.
  • Make sure to start with soft cream cheese. If it's not soft enough then put it into the microwave and soften a bit longer. Stir in the icing sugar and add the spoon full of water. Blend by hand, or for faster results use your hand blender.
  • Top each cookie with a tablespoon full of this glaze (it tastes like cinnabon)

Nutrition

Serving: 1cookieCalories: 150kcalSugar: 150g
Keyword cookies, pumpkin cookies,, soft pumpkin cookies
Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!

The trick to these scrumptious pumpkin sugar cookies with glaze is be sure to check the oven frequently. You really can’t let them get too brown or the recipe doesn’t produce a soft sugar cookie. I have never managed to get cookies the right amount of soft to call them soft cookies. These are just right!! But don’t wander off and forget them or you will have hard pumpkin sugar cookies.

Mom of two beautiful active girls, traveller, fitness junkie, social media consultant, and keeper of the sanity.

You May Also Like

Breville No Mess Waffle Maker

Win a Breville No Mess Waffle Maker for #MothersDay ARV $170

April 23, 2015

My Home Office Chair #WordlessWednesday

October 15, 2014

When Back to School Means Skin Breakouts: Two Chances to Win #Giveaway

August 27, 2013

22 Comments