Pumpkin Cookies
Recipe Ingredients
OK, so they're not the healthiest things you could eat, but they're cookies. They're not supposed to be healthy!- 2/3 cup vegetable oil
- 15 oz. can pure pumpkin (not pumpkin pie filling)
- 2 eggs
- 1½ cups sugar
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 4 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 cans cream cheese frosting, or make your own

Yum!
Recipe Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375°.
- Combine oil, pumpkin, eggs, sugar, and vanilla in a large bowl.
- Add flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt and mix just until completely blended.
- Place rounded tablespoons on a cookie sheet about 1-2 inches apart.
- Bake at 375° for about 10 minutes until beginning to brown slightly.
- Transfer cookies to a rack and allow them to cool completely.
- Cover flat side of one cookie with frosting and top with another cookie.
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Cream Cheese Frosting
- 1/2 cup softened butter
- 8 oz. softened cream cheese
- 4 cups confectioner's sugar
- 2 tsp vanilla
Are you going to try them?
kimmanleyort wrote...
I love pumpkin cookies and these look really great! Lensrolled to pumpkin parfait.
lakern26 wrote...
I've never heard of these before. What a unique spin on the traditional pumpkin pie recipe! They sound yummy! 5* and lensrolled to my Homemade Pumpkin Cake recipe lens.
AslanBooks wrote...
Great Lens...5*'s and favorited. I've added this as a featured lens on my own Pumpkin Pie lens...http://www.squidoo.com/pumppie.





