Frosting Recipe • Pumpkin Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting (The World's Best!)

After getting this recipe from a friend, I have made them over 100 times for family and friends and they are always a hit, especially around Halloween and Thanksgiving! As far as the spices go, less is more; this is not a full-on pumpkin pie or pumpkin bread/cake. They're light and moist cookies with a taste of fall in every bite!

Ingredients

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon baking soda
• ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
• ½ teaspoon ground ginger
• 1 cup butter
• ¾ cup white sugar
• ¾ cup brown sugar
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 egg
• 1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree
• 1 (3 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
• ¼ cup butter, softened
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 cups confectioners' sugar

Cooking Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease baking sheets.
2. Whisk flour, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda, nutmeg, and ginger together in a bowl. Beat 1 cup butter, white sugar, brown sugar, 2 teaspoons vanilla extract, and egg with an electric mixer in a separate large bowl, beating until mixture is smooth. Beat in pumpkin puree. Gradually stir dry ingredients into pumpkin mixture. Batter will be moist.
3. Spoon batter by teaspoonfuls about 2 inches apart onto prepared baking sheets.
4. Bake in the preheated oven until cookies are lightly browned, 10 to 12 minutes. Let cookies cool for about 5 minutes on sheets before removing to finish cooling on waxed paper.
5. Beat cream cheese, 1/4 cup butter, and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract in a bowl with an electric mixer until soft and creamy. Beat in confectioners' sugar, about 1/2 cup at a time, until frosting is smooth and spreadable. Frost cooled cookies with cream cheese frosting.

Nutrition Facts

• calories152.3
• carbohydrateContent20.6 g
• cholesterolContent24.7 mg
• fatContent7.5 g
• fiberContent0.6 g
• proteinContent1.3 g
• saturatedFatContent4.7 g
• sodiumContent115 mg
• sugarContent14.4 g