Melt In Your Mouth Pumpkin Cookies

Melt In Your Mouth Pumpkin Cookies are the BEST!! Seriously. Merry Christmas, everyone! I hope you are having a blessed time with your family today. I saved the most raved over cookie from our Christmas Cookie Extravaganza for today.

We made fifteen different cookies this year, and Melt In Your Mouth Pumpkin Cookies were the rage from everyone! These luscious pumpkin cookies turned out so marvelously. They have a nice pumpkin and cinnamon flavor and then they’re iced with an amazing brown sugar buttercream frosting with a touch of cinnamon on top.


Melt In Your Mouth Pumpkin Cookies are not extra spicy, so if you want a really spicy pumpkin cookie you’ll need to add additional spices like cloves, allspice, or ginger. But it is really quite an excellent cookie even without the additional spices.

INGREDIENTS
COOKIES:

• 2 cups unsalted butter softened (4 sticks)
• 2 cups granulated sugar
• 2 tsp. baking powder
• 2 tsp. baking soda
• 1 tsp. salt
• 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
• 1 tsp. ground nutmeg
• 2 large eggs
• 2 tsp. vanilla extract
• 15 oz. can pumpkin
• 5 1/2 to 5 3/4 cups Gold Medal UNBLEACHED all-purpose flour (Bleached flour toughens baked goods)

BUTTERCREAM FROSTING WITH CINNAMON:

• 1/2 cup unsalted butter
• 1/2 cup brown sugar packed
• 1/4 cup milk
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract
• 3 1/2 cups powdered sugar

INSTRUCTIONS
COOKIES:

1. Preheat oven to 350°.
2. Mix butter, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, eggs, vanilla and pumpkin with an electric mixer.
3. Stir in flour with a wooden spoon.
4. Roll mixture into balls.
5. Place on cookie sheets that have been sprayed with cooking spray.
6. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes or until tops are set.
7. Cool completely.
8. Spread with Buttercream Frosting and sprinkle each cookie with cinnamon for garnish.
9. .....................................

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