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