Pumpkin Spice Cookies with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting

These Pumpkin Spice Cookies with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting are cookies from Nancy and my childhood.  They are made with love from our mom’s decades old recipe and taste like a bite of the Holidays.  Cake-y and pumpkin-y with a smear of sweet cream cheese frosting these are a great cookie to make for Thanksgiving, Christmas or especially a Christmas Cookie Exchange.

These cookies are very good. Light and fluffy and filled with the taste of the holidays.  They remind me of my mom and I love them! They would be a fun cookie to bring to a cookie exchange party or a Christmas party.

INGREDIENTS

Pumpkin Spice Cookies:

• 1/2 Cup Butter (Sweet Cream Salted)
• 1 Cup Sugar
• 2 Eggs
• 1 Cup Canned Pumpkin
• 2 Cups Flour
• 4 tsp. Baking Powder
• 1 tsp. Salt
• 2 1/2 tsp. Cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp. Nutmeg
• 1/4 tsp. Ginger
• 1 Cup Chopped Walnuts or Pecans (optional)
• Cookie Sheets
• Parchment Paper

Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting:

• 1/2 Cup Butter (Sweet Cream Salted)
• 8 oz. block of Cream Cheese
• 3 tsp. Vanilla
• 4 cups Powdered Sugar
• 1 tsp. Cinnamon

INSTRUCTIONS

Pumpkin Spice Cookies:

1. In a mixer cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
2. Add eggs and pumpkin and mix well.
3. Sift flour, baking powder, salt and spices together and fold into cookie batter.
4. Mix until well blended.
5. Drop a spoonful of the cookie batter onto a cookie sheet.
6. Bake in a 350 degree oven for approximately 15 minutes.
7. Please visit Pumpkin Spice Cookies with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting for full instructions.