Really Great Pumpkin Cookies Recipes

SOFT AND CHEWY PUMPKIN COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Cream together butter, white sugar and brown sugar until fluffy. Beat in egg, vanilla and pumpkin.
• In a separate bowl, mix together the oats, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, raisins and flour. Stir into pumpkin mixture.
• Drop cookies by the heaping teaspoonful on to cookie sheets covered with parchment paper. Bake 12 to 15 minutes or until slightly browned around edges.
• Remove from oven and place on cooling racks. Frost with your favorite powdered sugar glaze or leave plain.

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.

GREAT PUMPKIN COOKIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Combine flour, oats, baking soda, cinnamon and salt.
• Cream butter and gradually add sugar beating until light and fluffy.
• Add egg and vanilla and mix well.
• Alternate additions of dry ingredients and pumpkin, mixing well after each addition.
• Stir in chocolate chips.
• For each cookie, drop ¼ cup dough onto lightly greased cookie sheet and spread into pumpkin shape using a thin metal spatula.
• Add a bit more dough to form stem.
• Bake 20-25 minutes or until cookies are firm and lightly butter to affix assorted candies, raisins and nuts mixing them up to make different faces.

ITS THE GREAT PUMPKIN COOKIES, CHARLIE BROWN

Steps:

• Cream butter with both sugars until light and fluffy.
• Add in egg, pumpkin, and vanilla and mix.
• Then add flour oats, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt and mix well.
• Then stir in CHocolate chips and cinnamon chips.
• Bake at 350 for 18-20 minutes or until firm and lightly brown.
• (OPT) You can shape these into pumpkins before baking and when done and cooled decorate with frosting or peanut butter (I love them just plain).
• I usually eat mine when they are totally cooled.