Pumpkin Sugar Cookies
Pumpkin sugar cookies are made with a homemade blend of pumpkin spice and rolled in cinnamon sugar before being baked into soft tender sugar cookies.
Servings: 33 cookies
Calories: 117kcal
Ingredients
Pumpkin Sugar Cookies
- ¾ cup unsalted butter softened
- 1 ¼ cups light brown sugar packed
- ½ cup canned pure pumpkin puree
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 ½ cups all purpose flour spooned and leveled
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon ground ginger
- ½ teaspoon ground allspice
- ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ⅛ teaspoon ground cloves
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
Cinnamon Sugar Coating
- ⅓ cup granulated sugar
- ¾ teaspoon ground cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350ºF and line two cookie sheets with parchment paper.
- Make the cinnamon sugar mixture and set aside.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, allspice, nutmeg, and cloves.
- Cream the butter and the brown sugar together until creamy. About 3 minutes.
- Beat in the 2 eggs and add in the vanilla extract and the pumpkin puree.
- Slowly mix the flour mixture into the butter mixture and mix until all the ingredients are moistened.
- Scoop the cookie dough into 1-inch balls. (A #30 cookie scoop is helpful when doing this.)
- Roll the balls of cookie dough into the cinnamon sugar mixture.
- Place the cookies on the cookie sheet two inches apart.
- Bake one sheet at a time for 11-13 minutes.
- Allow the cookies to cool for 10 minutes before transferring them to a cooling rack to cool completely.
Notes
For puffier cookies, chill the cookie dough for 30 minutes before rolling in cinnamon sugar and baking.
Pumpkin sugar cookie dough can be frozen for 3 months.
Nutrition
Serving: 1serving | Calories: 117kcal | Carbohydrates: 18g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 5g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 0.2g | Cholesterol: 21mg | Sodium: 65mg | Potassium: 36mg | Fiber: 0.4g | Sugar: 10g | Vitamin A: 722IU | Vitamin C: 0.2mg | Calcium: 17mg | Iron: 1mg
