Description
These pumpkin cookies are frosted with maple frosting. There has never been a person who has not LOVED these cookies, even those who do not like pumpkin cookies. It has been a family recipe for 35 years. It has won 1st prize at a cookie exchange and at a pumpkin contest at work. I usually triple the recipe!
Ingredients
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 cup shortening (such as Crisco®)
- 1 egg
- 1 cup canned pumpkin
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup chopped walnuts (Optional)
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- ½ cup butter, softened
- 1 tablespoon milk, or as needed
- 1 teaspoon maple extract, or to taste
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Mix sugar and shortening together in a bowl. Mix in egg. Add pumpkin and vanilla extract; mix well. Add flour
- baking soda
- baking powder
- cinnamon
- and salt and mix until well combined. Fold in walnuts.
- Use small teaspoons or a cookie scoop to drop rounded teaspoonfuls of cookie dough onto ungreased baking sheets.
- Bake in the preheated oven until edges turn golden
- 10 to 12 minutes. Allow to cool.
- Meanwhile
- beat powdered sugar and butter together with an electric mixer until combined. Stir in milk
- 1 teaspoon at a time
- until a frosting consistency is reached. Fold in maple extract until thoroughly combined.
- Spread maple frosting over the cooled cookies.
Prep Time: 20 mins
Cook Time: 10 mins
Total Time: 30 mins
Servings: 24