Pumpkin Cookies
Like a pumpkin whoopie pie, these pumpkin cookies have a soft, cakey texture and a cream cheese frosting filling. They are great for Halloween parties or for a unique and tasty alternative to pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving.
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
I make these cookies as a sandwich because it is easier to stack and wrap them for storing or travel. Alternatively, you can use the cookies individually and frost them on top for a prettier presentation and smaller portions.- 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?
clouda9 wrote...
You can have two which is actually four cookies but you could rightfully argue you are only having two...umm I'll take two ;) please...LOL! I will have to try these for sure!
Posted November 06, 2007
awelldressedbullet wrote...
These look yummy, and since Rick loves pumpkin, I just might give them a go! - Kathy
Posted August 31, 2007
