One of our favorite cold weather cookie recipes is Pumpkin Cookies. They have that rich fall/winter smell and flavor and just feel like holiday or company cookies.
Just making these pumpkin cookies is fun, since the pumpkin and seasonings smell so fabulous. Then, you put the pumpkin cookies in the oven, and the whole house smells like you bought high end pumpkin or winter spice candles when you just broke out the mixing bowl and cookie sheets.
When you’re finished with the pumpkin cookies, you have soft and flavorful cookies that are different from most of the usual holiday cookies. The classic holiday cookies are great, but it’s nice to have something a little different too, and this is one of my best cookie recipes that is not a repeat of all the other cookies on the dessert table.
Pumpkin Cookie Recipe
- ¾ cup butter or margarine - softened
- 2/3 cup light or dark brown sugar packed
- 2 eggs
- 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla
- 1 cup pumpkin puree (not canned pie filling – just regular pumpkin without flavorings)
- 2 cups plain flour
- ½ tsp. baking powder
- ½ tsp. baking soda
- 1/8 tsp. salt
- 2 ½ teaspoons pumpkin pie seasoning
- 1 cup craisins (dried cranberries)
- 1 cup nuts chopped
Directions
- Combine butter, brown sugar, eggs, and vanilla and beat until fluffy.
- Add the canned pumpkin and mix well.
- Add flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and pumpkin pie spice seasoning and mix well.
- Mix in the craisins and nuts with a spoon.
- Drop by blops about the size of a walnut on an ungreased cookie baking sheet.
- Bake for about 10 to 12 minutes at 375 degrees F or until lightly browned.
Pumpkin Dip - If You're Not Up to Cookies
If you're not big on baking but want some pumpkin flavor in your home, then try out Pumpkin Dip. You can use store bought ginger snap cookies or sugar cookies and dip them in the pumpkin mixture.
More Yummy Cookie Recipes from the South:Snickerdoodle Cookies - Yes. These are the holiday cookies that get made year after year. They are not super fancy cookies, but they are hard to beat. I try some of the jazzed up cookies every year, but I come back to these traditional cookies time and again.
Chocolate No Bake Cookies - These are often the first cookies that a kid gets to make, since they are no bake and just made in a pot on top of the stove. Don't let that fool you. These are really yummy cookies even if easy. I made them when I was a kid. My boys have made them. And, I still stir these super easy cookies up now and then just because they are very tasty.
Cyndi Allison - Southern born and fed, Cyndi Allison is a college lecturer and newspaper advisor as well as being a freelance writer. She writes on ...
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