Pumpkin Meltaways with Maple Pumpkin Spice Icing
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| Serves | 40 |
Pumpkin Meltaway Cookies with Maple Pumpkin Spice Icing are soft and light and melt in your mouth! The perfect cookie to celebrate fall and the holidays!
Ingredients
Cookie
- 3/4 cups unsalted butter (softened)
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1/3 cup pumpkin puree
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
Icing
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon maple extract
- 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
- 1-2 tablespoon milk
Directions
| Cookie | |
| Step 1 | |
| In a mixing bowl cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the pumpkin, vanilla, pumpkin pie spice, and salt, and mix well. Add baking soda, baking powder, and half of the flour and mix on low. Add remaining flour mixing until combined. Chill dough for an hour. | |
| Step 2 | |
| Preheat oven to 350. Roll dough into 1" balls and place them 2" apart on a parchment paper or silpat lined cookie sheet. Flatten balls into disks and bake 6-7 minutes. Do not over bake! Let rest on cookie sheet for a few minutes after baking before transferring to a cooling rack. Let cool completely before icing. | |
| Icing | |
| Step 3 | |
| In a small bowl whisk together Icing ingredients until smooth . You want it to be the texture of glue - not too runny. Add more milk if necessary. Gently spoon a small amount onto each cookie. Allow icing to harden before storing in an loosely covered container. | |
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Erin @ Texanerin Baking says
These look incredible! And love that icing!
Lisa Nguyen says
The icing is amazing!
Kirsten/ComfortablyDomestic says
Pumpkin and maple are made for each other. My boys would be all about the icing, too.
K.Waldman says
How many eggs?
Stephanie Brubaker says
No eggs in this recipe! Hope you enjoy them as much as we did!
Marie Goodson says
These sound delish and will be making these for Thanksgiving and before also. Marie Goodson
Ashley @ Wishes & Dishes says
I have had the urge to bake lately too and these are next on my list!
The Food Hunter says
Pinning this to make for an upcoming party.
Kelly Lynn's Sweets and Treats says
These look so yummy and just loving the sound of pumpkin melt away cookies! I just got a ton of pumpkin purée from Costo today…I will have to make these!!