Pumpkin Cookies

Pumpkin Cookies

Fall is my favorite time of the year. I love the colors, clothes, and most importantly pumpkin! Whether it is cookies, cake, pie, or lattes, I love it all. There are so many recipes you can create about pumpkin. One of my family's favorite pumpkin desserts is cookies. Every year, they beg me to make them. Because of the early fall weather this year, I decided it was time to make the first batch.

Ingredients:

1 cup butter (room temperature)

1 cup sugar

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

½ teaspoon salt

½ teaspoon ground cinnamon

½ teaspoon ground nutmeg

2 eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla

7-8 ounces pumpkin

4 cups flour

Steps:

Preheat Oven to 350 degrees

In a large bowl (I use my Kitchen Aid Mixer) beat butter, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and eggs. I prefer to mix in the eggs as the other ingredients are on a low setting to ensure that all ingredients have completely combined before moving on.

Next, measure out about 7-8 ounces of pumpkin. I like to buy a 15 ounce can and use the extra for other sweet treats!

After that, spoon the pumpkin into the previously combined ingredients and mix until they are well blended. Your mixture should be pretty about the consistency of butter and have an orange color to it. 

If you have a stand mixer, set the speed on low and gradually add in the flour. If not, just add a little bit of flour at a time and continue mixing. You should now have a dough-like mixture that is ready to be baked into a cookie! 

Take heaping spoon-fulls of dough and place them on an ungreased cookie sheet. I use a silicone baking mat because it makes for easy cleanup and no cookie residue. Bake your cookies for 10 minutes or until the bottoms have slightly browned. Cool on a wire rack and enjoy! 

*I like to use cream cheese frosting and sprinkle a little bit of pumpkin pie spice on the top for presentation purposes, but of course it tastes good too!