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two pumpkin pecan cookies iced with butter cream and sprinkled with pecans on a gray plate
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Pumpkin Pecan Cookies

The best pumpkin cookies you'll ever eat! All the best flavors of fall in each and every bite!
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Prep Time 25 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Servings 2 dozen

Ingredients

Pumpkin Pecan Cookies

Buttercream Icing

Instructions

Pumpkin Cookie Batter

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
  • In a mixing bowl, cream together butter and sugars until combined.
  • Beat in egg, pumpkin puree and vanilla.
  • In a separate mixing bowl add, salt baking powder, cinnamon and flour.
  • Mix in dry ingredients until well combined.
  • Add pecans and mix well.
  • Roll 1-2 Tbsp (depending on how large you like your cookies) of dough at a time into balls and place them evenly spaced on your prepared cookie sheets.
  • To make a flat cookie for icing, use the bottom of a glass to flatten cookies. Cookie dough is sticky, wet cup before flattening each cookie.
  • Bake for 13-15 minutes.
  • Let rest on cooling rack for 5 minutes before serving.

Buttercream Icing

  • Mix room temperature butter, powdered sugar and vanilla until well combined.
  • Add 1 - 2 Tbsp of heavy whipping cream or milk until you get the consistency you prefer.
  • Spread approx 1 Tbsp of icing on each cookie and sprinkle with pecans.

Notes

Share these cookies with a co-worker, neighbor or your post carrier.  They are sure to put a smile on the face of the recipient.
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