Old Fashioned Soft Pumpkin Cookies Recipes

SOFT PUMPKIN COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Cream together sugar and butter. Add egg, vanilla, pumpkin and walnuts.
• Stir in flour, baking powder and salt; mix well.
• Drop by the tablespoon on cookie sheet and bake for 15 minutes.

OLD FASHIONED SOFT PUMPKIN COOKIES

Steps:

• Combine flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon in a medium bowl.
• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar.
• Add pumpkin, egg, and vanilla; beat until light and creamy.
• Mix in dry ingredients until well blended.
• Drop rounded spoonfuls of dough onto greased cookie sheet.
• Smooth tops of cookies.
• Bake in preheated 350°F degree oven for 15-20 minutes.
• Meanwhile, combine glaze ingredients, stirring until smooth and set aside.
• Cool baked cookies on wire rack.
• Drizzle glaze over top.
• For variations, stir any one of the following ingredients into batter: 1 cup raisins, chopped nuts, or rolled oats and/or 1/2 cup crushed pineapple, drained.

PUMPKIN COOKIES WITH CREAM CHEESE FROSTING (THE WORLD'S BEST!)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease baking sheets.
• Whisk flour, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda, nutmeg, and ginger together in a bowl. Beat 1 cup butter, white sugar, brown sugar, 2 teaspoons vanilla extract, and egg with an electric mixer in a separate large bowl, beating until mixture is smooth. Beat in pumpkin puree. Gradually stir dry ingredients into pumpkin mixture. Batter will be moist.
• Spoon batter by teaspoonfuls about 2 inches apart onto prepared baking sheets.
• Bake in the preheated oven until cookies are lightly browned, 10 to 12 minutes. Let cookies cool for about 5 minutes on sheets before removing to finish cooling on waxed paper.
• Beat cream cheese, 1/4 cup butter, and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract in a bowl with an electric mixer until soft and creamy. Beat in confectioners' sugar, about 1/2 cup at a time, until frosting is smooth and spreadable. Frost cooled cookies with cream cheese frosting.

OLD FASHIONED SOFT PUMPKIN COOKIES

Steps:

• In a medium bowl, combine flour, b. soda, b. powder, salt, and spices.
• Sift together the white and dark brown sugars.
• In a large mixer bowl, cream or beat butter and sugars well.
• Beat in the pumpkin, egg, and vanilla to the creamed butter and sugar.
• Gradually, beat in the dry mixture until all is blended well.
• Drop onto greased baking sheets by rounded tablespoon.
• Bake in 350-degree F pre-heated oven for 13-15 minutes (each successive batch needing less) or until edges are firmed up.
• Cool on the baking sheet about 2 minutes then remove to cool completely on wire rack.
• For Glaze: In a small bowl, combine all 4 glaze ingredients until smooth.
• Drizzle glaze over the tops of all the cookies. Let glaze set.

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Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350° F. Grease baking sheets.
• Combine flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt in medium bowl. Beat sugar and 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter in large mixer bowl until well blended. Beat in pumpkin, egg and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract until smooth. Gradually beat in flour mixture. Drop by rounded tablespoon onto prepared baking sheets.
• Bake for 15 to 18 minutes or until edges are firm. Cool on baking sheets for 2 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool completely.
• Combine sifted powdered sugar, milk, 1 tablespoon butter and remaining 1 teaspoon vanilla extract in small bowl until smooth. Drizzle over cookies.