Glazed Pumpkin Spice Cookies
Cake-like and moist, store these on a plate on your countertop, covered with foil, being careful not to smash the icing. (If they last long enough to store!)
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp nutmeg
- 1/2 tsp cloves
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1 cup pumpkin puree
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla
For glaze
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 3 or more tbsp milk
- 1 tbsp melted butter
- 1 tsp vanilla
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350. Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, ground cloves, and salt; set aside. In a medium bowl, cream together the 1/2 cup of butter and white sugar. Add pumpkin, egg, and 1 teaspoon vanilla to butter mixture, and beat until creamy. Mix in dry ingredients. Drop on cookie sheet by heaping teaspoons.
- Bake for 15 to 20 minutes in the preheated oven. Cool cookies, then drizzle glaze with fork.To Make Glaze: Combine confectioners’ sugar, milk, 1 tablespoon melted butter, and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Add milk as needed, to achieve drizzling consistency.
- When drizzling glaze, I put my cookies on the cooling rack with wax paper underneath, that way you have easy clean up!