Iced Pumpkin Cookies

4.73 from 11 votes

Iced Pumpkin Cookies are thick and cake-like, and topped with an easy powdered sugar icing. Store these favorite fall treats in the refrigerator, and enjoy them cold with a cup of coffee. A perfect duo, and your friends and family will be asking for the recipe!

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword iced pumpkin cookies, pumpkin cookies

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 12

Total Time 27

Servings cookies

Calories 187kcal

Author Sue Ringsdorf

Ingredients

For the cookies:

2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 cup unsalted butter - at room temperature
1 1/2 cup sugar
1 cup can pumpkin puree
1 large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla

For the icing:

2 Tablespoons butter - melted
2 Tablespoons half and half
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups powdered sugar - or to right of consistency

Instructions

For the cookies:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice, and salt; set aside.
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 2 teaspoons cinnamon, 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice, 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
In a mixer, cream together the butter (that is at room temp) and sugar. Add pumpkin, eggs, and vanilla to mixture; and beat until creamy.
1/2 cup unsalted butter, 1 1/2 cup sugar, 1 cup can pumpkin puree, 1 large egg, 1 teaspoon vanilla
Mix in dry ingredients and drop on cookie sheet using a cookie scoop.
Bake for 12-13 minutes in the preheated oven or until cookies are slightly browned on top.
Cool cookies on a baking rack.

For the icing:

Combine the melted butter, half and half, and vanilla. Then add enough powdered sugar to make it easy to spread but not too runny that it runs off the cookie.
2 Tablespoons butter, 2 Tablespoons half and half, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 2 cups powdered sugar
Spoon the icing on top of the cooled pumpkin cookies.

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Notes

Bake them for less time for a gooey cookie.
You can use a decorating kit to ice the cookies as well.
We like these cookies best cold. Store them in the refrigerator (or freezer) and enjoy them anytime, with a cup of coffee - of course!

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