Pumpkin Spice Soft Cookies With Brown Sugar Frosting

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These pumpkin cookies were a big hit at one of our church functions. By the next morning, I had recipe requests rolling in. That’s always a good sign! I made them as one of my recipe reviews, but as usual,  I changed a couple of things from the magazine. Come on in, and I’ll share my version of this delicious recipe with you. 

One of my changes was taking out the butter – completely! I know, crazy right?! A cookie recipe without butter? I didn’t do it because, I’m just “cooking savvy” that way. Nope! I made a drastic change due to my usual reason. Lack of ingredients. I looked in my fridge, in the middle of making the cookies, on the night I was in charge of snacks, and had NO BUTTER! Ok, I had enought for the frosting, but…Seriously? How does a person that cooks, and bakes quite a bit, and is a Field Editor for a cooking magazine, run out of butter?! I don’t know. It’s crazy, but I wasn’t driving to the store, not with 4 kids home on fall break. I knew that much! I’m a huge fan of substituting ingredients, on the fly, so I grabbed my coconut oil! I cut the amount of butter in half, and used coconut oil in it’s place. It really worked. It was a nice fluffy, delicious pumpkin cookie. Phew! They are yummy, and a little bit healthier, now. 🙂 

Here’s the recipe for ya:

Soft Pumpkin Spice Cookies with Brown Sugar Frosting

2015-11-11 06:56:05

Soft and delicious pumpkin cookies!

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Ingredients

1. 1/2 cup of coconut oil
2. 1/2 cup of sugar
3. 1/2 cup of brown sugar
4. 1 large egg
5. 1 cup of canned pumpkin
6. 2 tsp. vanilla extract
7. 2 cups of all-purpose flour
8. 1 tsp. baking powder
9. 1 tsp. baking soda
10. 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
11. 1/2 tsp. allspice
12. 1/2 tsp. ground cloves
13. 1/2 tsp. salt
14. 3/4 cup of chopped pecans

Frosting

1. 1/4 cup of packed brown sugar
2. 3 Tbsp. butter
3. 1/4 cup of 2% milk
4. 2&1/2 to 3 cups of powdered (confectioners') sugar

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
2. In a large bowl, cream the coconut oil with the sugars
3. Add the egg, pumpkin and extract stir in
4. In another bowl, add the flour, powder, soda, spices and salt - mix well
5. Add the flour mixture to the wet mixture, and mix well
6. Stir in the pecans
7. Spoon onto an ungreased baking sheet, about 2 in. apart
8. Bake for 9-11 minutes or until the edges start to get a little golden
9. Let cool completely before adding the frosting

Making the frosting

1. In a saucepan over med/high heat, melt the butter
2. Add the brown sugar and bring the mixture to a boil
3. Cook for about a minute - stirring constantly
4. Remove from heat and let this mixture cool down quite a bit, to a luke-warm temp.
5. Add the milk and powdered sugar
6. Stir until it is a nice creamy frosting
7. Spread over cookies

By Melissa

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