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    Home » Recipes

    Pumpkin Spice Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting

    Published: Sep 14, 2018 · Modified: Jun 14, 2023 by Alison · This post may contain affiliate links ·

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    Pumpkin Spice Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting

    Happy Pumpkin Spice Season!

    The perfect cookie for the fall season is this recipe for pumpkin spice cookies. Not only do they taste good but they also make your house smell amazing when baking. And the homemade cream cheese frosting on top adds that extra flavor to the soft, melt in your mouth cookie. Enjoy these pumpkin spice cookies along with this recipe for Copycat Starbucks Pumpkin Spiced Latte.

    Pumpkin Spice Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting

    Ingredients

    • 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
    • 1 teaspoon baking powder
    • 1 teaspoon baking soda
    • 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
    • ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
    • ½ teaspoon ground cloves
    • ½ teaspoon salt
    • ½ cup butter, softened
    • 1 ½ cups white sugar
    • 1 cup canned pumpkin puree
    • 1 egg
    • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

    Ingredients for Icing
    (can also use cream cheese frosting from the store if you don’t have time to make)

    • ½ cup softened butter
    • ½ cup softened cream cheese
    • 2-3 cups powdered sugar (2 ½ cups was about the right sweetness for my taste).
    • 1 tsp. vanilla extract

    Directions

    1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Combine flour, Baking soda, Baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt in a medium bowl and set aside.
    2. In your mixer, cream together the butter and white sugar.
    3. Add pumpkin, egg, and vanilla to the butter mixture, and beat until it is creamy.
    4. Add all of the dry ingredients gradually and beat until combined.
    5. Drop on cookie sheet by tablespoonfuls. The dough will be pretty soft.
    6. Bake in the oven for 15 to 20 minutes.
    7. In another bowl, add the cream butter and cream cheese together in the mixer. Slowly add the powdered sugar and mix until it is thick and creamy; then add the vanilla into the mixture.
    8. When the cookies are cooled, spread the frosting on top of the cookie with a spatula.

    If you like this recipe, try my No Bake Pumpkin Spice Oreo Cream Cheese Dip recipe as it’s just as yummy!

    How to Make Pumpkin Spice Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting

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    Pumpkin Spice Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting

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    Ingredients
      

    • 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
    • 1 teaspoon baking powder
    • 1 teaspoon baking soda
    • 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
    • ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
    • ½ teaspoon ground cloves
    • ½ teaspoon salt
    • ½ cup butter softened
    • 1 ½ cups white sugar
    • 1 cup canned pumpkin puree
    • 1 egg
    • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
    • Ingredients for Icing
    • can also use cream cheese frosting from the store if you don’t have time to make
    • ½ cup softened butter
    • ½ cup softened cream cheese
    • 2-3 cups powdered sugar 2 ½ cups was about the right sweetness for my taste.
    • 1 tsp. vanilla extract

    Instructions
     

    • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Combine flour, Baking soda, Baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt in a medium bowl and set aside.
    • In your mixer, cream together the butter and white sugar.
    • Add pumpkin, egg, and vanilla to the butter mixture, and beat until it is creamy.
    • Add all of the dry ingredients gradually and beat until combined.
    • Drop on cookie sheet by tablespoonfuls. The dough will be pretty soft.
    • Bake in the oven for 15 to 20 minutes.
    • In another bowl, add the cream butter and cream cheese together in the mixer. Slowly add the powdered sugar and mix until it is thick and creamy; then add the vanilla into the mixture.
    • When the cookies are cooled, spread the frosting on top of the cookie with a spatula.

    Nutrition Disclosure

    Nutritional facts are estimates and are provided as a courtesy to the reader. Please utilize your own brand nutritional values to double check against our estimates. Nutritional values are calculated via a third party. Changing ingredients, amounts or cooking technique will alter the estimated nutritional calculations.

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    1. Linda

      October 30, 2018 at 5:10 pm

      How many cookies does this recipe yield?

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