Pumpkin Pecan Cookies
The best pumpkin cookies you'll ever eat! All the best flavors of fall in each and every bite!
Ingredients
Pumpkin Pecan Cookies
- 1 egg
- 1 cup Brown Sugar
- 1/2 cup Granulated Sugar
- 1/2 cup Butter softened
- 3/4 cup Pumpkin Puree
- 1 1/2 tsp Vanilla
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- 1 tsp Cinnamon
- 2 1/2 cup All-Purpose Flour
- 1 1/2 c Pecans Chopped
Buttercream Icing
- 1/2 cup Butter
- 2 cup Powdered Sugar
- 1 tsp Vanilla
- 1-2 Tbsp Heavy Whipping Cream or Milk
Instructions
Pumpkin Cookie Batter
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
- In a mixing bowl, cream together butter and sugars until combined.
- Beat in egg, pumpkin puree and vanilla.
- In a separate mixing bowl add, salt baking powder, cinnamon and flour.
- Mix in dry ingredients until well combined.
- Add pecans and mix well.
- Roll 1-2 Tbsp (depending on how large you like your cookies) of dough at a time into balls and place them evenly spaced on your prepared cookie sheets.
- To make a flat cookie for icing, use the bottom of a glass to flatten cookies. Cookie dough is sticky, wet cup before flattening each cookie.
- Bake for 13-15 minutes.
- Let rest on cooling rack for 5 minutes before serving.
Buttercream Icing
- Mix room temperature butter, powdered sugar and vanilla until well combined.
- Add 1 - 2 Tbsp of heavy whipping cream or milk until you get the consistency you prefer.
- Spread approx 1 Tbsp of icing on each cookie and sprinkle with pecans.
Notes
Share these cookies with a co-worker, neighbor or your post carrier. They are sure to put a smile on the face of the recipient.
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