Recipe For Pumpkin Cookies With Cream Cheese Icing

Mix together cream cheese powdered sugar butter vanilla and salt until creamy.

Recipe for pumpkin cookies with cream cheese icing. A classic autumn spice filled pumpkin cookie with a soft cake like texture and then a perfectly moist crumb. Beat in pumpkin puree. Sift flour baking powder salt and spices together and fold into cookie batter.

Combine the flour bicarbonate of soda salt cinnamon and vanilla dessert mix. Roll into walnut sized balls and place them 5cm apart onto the prepared baking trays. Mix in powdered sugar and vanilla and mix until well combined.

In a large bowl cream together the buttery margarine and sugar. Add eggs and vanilla beating until combined. 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 until combined scraping the sides of the bowl. Beat in the egg and vanilla then stir in the pumpkin puree. Beat together butter and cream cheese until smooth.

Put the frosting into a sandwich bag or piping bag. Gradually stir dry ingredients into pumpkin mixture. Add sugar salt baking powder baking soda and pumpkin pie spice.

Mix in flour until combined. Whisk flour baking powder cinnamon baking soda nutmeg and ginger together in a bowl. Frost cooled cookies and sprinkle with cinnamon for decoration if desired.