Pumpkin Cream Cheese Cookies

Cool crisp mornings, golden afternoons, chilly evenings, bonfires, mums, bright blue skies, radiant foliage, cold glasses of apple cider and crunchy leaves beneath your feet… And of course! Pumpkin spice and cream cheese!

I make these every year, all autumn long! It’s the first thing I do to celebrate the season!

P.S. – Save this post, because you’ll want to use this cream cheese icing recipe for ALL your cream cheese icing needs in future!

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Pumpkin Cream Cheese Cookies

Rebecca

A soft pumpkin cookie with the perfect cream cheese icing to celebrate your fall mood!

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Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 12 minutes mins

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Servings 20 Cookies

Ingredients

  

Cookie

• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 cup shortening
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• 1 tsp. salt
• 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
• 1 cup canned pumpkin

Icing

• 8 oz Cream cheese
• 2 TBS butter
• 1 cup confectioner sugar
• 1 TBS vanilla

Instructions

 

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Grease cookie sheets.
• In a large bowl, cream together sugar, egg, shortening, and vanilla.
• Sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon;
• Stir the dry mixture into the creamed mixture.
• Add the pumpkin filling.
• Drop dough by teaspoonfuls onto the prepared cookie sheets.
• Bake 10-15 minutes in the preheated oven.
• While cookies are baking, mix together all of the icing ingredients until smooth.
• Allow cookies to cool slightly before icing them. (Although… they are VERY tasty while warm!)
• Enjoy!

Keyword Cinnamon, Cookie, Cream Cheese Icing, Fall Sweets, Pumpkin Spice, Pumpkin,