Soft Iced Pumpkin Cookies Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Add pumpkin, egg and vanilla and mix well. Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg. Stir into butter mixture until well blended. Add nuts and raisins. Drop by teaspoonful onto parchment covered baking sheet, about 2 inches apart. Bake about 15 minutes, or until golden. Cool.
• Icing: Cream confectioners' sugar and butter. Add remaining ingredients and beat until smooth. (If icing is too thin, add more confectioners' sugar; if too thick, add more cream, orange juice or rum.) Drizzle over cookies.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease baking sheets.
• Whisk flour, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda, nutmeg, and ginger together in a bowl. 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 in pumpkin puree. Gradually stir dry ingredients into pumpkin mixture. Batter will be moist.
• Spoon batter by teaspoonfuls about 2 inches apart onto prepared baking sheets.
• Bake in the preheated oven until cookies are lightly browned, 10 to 12 minutes. Let cookies cool for about 5 minutes on sheets before removing to finish cooling on waxed paper.
• Beat cream cheese, 1/4 cup butter, and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract in a bowl with an electric mixer until soft and creamy. Beat in confectioners' sugar, about 1/2 cup at a time, until frosting is smooth and spreadable. Frost cooled cookies with cream cheese frosting.

Steps:

• For cookies; set oven to 350 degrees F.
• Grease a large cookie sheet.
• In a medium bowl combine the flour with the next 6 ingredients.
• In another bowl cream butter with both sugars until combined.
• Add in egg and extract beat until fluffy.
• Beat in pumpkin puree until combined.
• Add in the dry ingredients and beat until just combined.
• Drop by tablespoonfuls onto cookie sheet, then flatten slightly with palm of hands.
• Bake for about 12-15 minutes.
• Cool then generously drizzle the icing over the top.
• For the icing;. in a bowl combine the confectioners sugar with cinnamon, melted butter; add in cream or milk mixing until smooth and as needed to achieve desired drizzling consistancy.
• Generously drizzle over cooled cookies.