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As October rolled around I decided I wanted to try a few more pumpkin recipes, after using half a butternut sqaush pumpkin for a risotto I decided to make cookies from the other half. I cooked the pumpkin and made puree and then found a good sounding recipe. These pumpkin cookies have a subtle, but present pumpkin flavour. The cookies are soft and chewy. I decided to roll mine in cinnamon sugar and I think that was a great decision I think as the cinnamon works well together with the pumpkin flavour. If you want to try out some fall flavoured cookies these are a good place to start!
This recipe is based on Wine and Glue her Pumpkin Sugar Cookies Recipe
Ingredients
- Pumpkin puree – 120 gram/ 1/2 cup
- Sugar – 300 gram/ 1 1/2 cup
- Flour – 312 gram/ 2 1/2 cups
- Butter – 200 gram/ 1 3/4 stick
- Egg yolk – 1
- Vanilla Extract – 2 teaspoons
- Baking Powder – 1/2 teaspoon
- Salt – 1/2 teaspoon
- Cinnamon – 1/2 teaspoon
- Extra sugar (190 gram) and cinnamon (1/2 teaspoon) for rolling
For the pumpkin puree you can use a can pumpkin puree or make it yourself. If you want to make it yourself you need a bit less than half a pumpkin, slice and dice it in small squares and then cook for about 25-30 minutes. After that blend it to a smooth puree.
This recipe makes around 45 cookies.
Method
- In a big bowl combine the molten butter with the sugar and mix well.
- Then add the pumpkin puree, vanilla extract and the egg yolk and mix till combined.
- At last add the flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Mix for a few minutes.
- Put the bowl in the fridge for a little bit, while you preheat the oven to 180 degrees celcius/ 350 degrees fahrenheit.
- Once the oven is warmed up, remove the bowl with dough from the fridge. In a small flat bowl combine sugar and cinnamon. Roll a small ball of the dough and roll it through the cinnamon sugar. Then place the cookies on a parchment lined baking sheet with space between them.
- Bake the cookies for about 10 minutes and let cool down for a bit before eating them. You can make about 3 batches with this recipe, so around 45 cookies.
- Enjoy your cookies!
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Variation Tips
- Pumpkin Cookies without cinnamon sugar. If you don’t like cinnamon, you can also make these without rolling them in cinnamon sugar.
- Pumpkin Cookies with sugar. Instead of rolling the cookies in cinnamon suagr, you can also roll them only in sugar.
- Pumpkin Cookies with Frosting If you want to add a little touch to your cookies you can make any frosting you like for on top. I recommend a cinnamon flavoured frosting.
- Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies. Add about 150 gram oats to this recipe to make these into pumpkin oatmeal cookies.
- Pumpkin Pecan Cookies. Add about 150 gram pecan nuts to this recipe to make these into pumpkin pecan cookies.
- Pumpkin cookies with frosting. Love your cookies with frosting? You can make some pumpkin cinnamon frosting for on top of these.
These look so good. I love pumpkin everything. Will totally be trying these this weekend!
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I hope you’ll like them! Let me know how they turn out 🙂
kind of debating of making some for tomorrow, they looked so good. Last year I made some with cream cheese frosting, oh man it was yummy
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I think cream cheese frosting would go very wel with these cookies. Although for some reason I always ruin frosting, so I usually just make cookies without frosting.
That sounds so good. The grocery store I go to makes fresh pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. They are so good and I’ve never been able to figure out their recipe.
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I wouldn’t have thought of that myself to add chocolate chips to pumpkin cookies, but I might have to give that a try next time! That’s great you can buy fresh cookies at your grocery store! They don’t sell pumpkin cookies here, so I have to make them myself.
oh these look delicious!! I love cinnamon with pumpkin. I might just try out this recipe tomorrow!!!
I hope you’ll enjoy them! The cinnamon with pumpkin is such a good combination! I am going to try pumpkin muffins tomorrow 🙂
HOLY CRAP!!! I need to make these! They look so DELICIOUS!!!! I am pinning them now to save for when I make my holiday cookies. I love your variations!
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I hope you’ll enjoy them! They are very good! I haven’t tried most of the variation tips myself yet, but I always have fun coming up with ideas to make the recipe a bit different.
Can I just hire you as an in-house cook? I’m not very motivated when it comes to cooking lately and you always try the coolest things! I don’t love pumpkin, but I can imagine it tasting very nice with the cinnamon sugar, so i’d definitely give these a try. 🙂
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That would make for a cool job cooking for others! I had a bit of a cooking slump a few months ago and it was the worst, I am glad I have my cooking mojo back again. The pumpkin taste isn’t really overwhelming, it mostly adds to the taste and the texture, so I think even if you don’t like pumpkin you will probably enjoy these!
Oh I’m stuck on the butternut squash risotto. Yum!
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I will share the recipe for the butternut squash risotto in a few weeks as well ;). I already have the post scheduled.
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Now this is a use of pumpkin I can get behind! 🙂
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I’ve been trying out some pumpkin related recipes this year and most turned out pretty good so far!
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I like the idea of the pumpkin sugar cookies. I’ll have to try that for our family Thanksgiving.
Let me know how they turn out when you give them a try! I hope you’ll like them.
Mhm I bet these are good with the pecan variation too 🙂 I’ve never made anything sweet with pumpkin aside from pumpkin pie (I always think of it as more savoury – we eat it roasted and pumpkin soup is my favourite in winter!)
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I haven’t tried the pecan variation myself, I only came up with the idea after I made them, but it sounds like it would be very good. I tried making pumpkin pie, but it failed. I also made pumpkin soup and use it during dinner sometimes, I think these cookies were my first try at something sweet with pumpkin. I also tried pumpkin muffins, but that recipe needs some tweaking first.
Your pumpkin cookie recipe sounds awesome. I haven’t made pumpkin cookies before and don’t remember seeing a recipe for them before so this will be fun to do. Also looking forward to your risotto recipe!
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I hope you’ll like them! This was the first recipe I tried for pumpkin cookies and I really like this recipe. My risotto recipe will be posted somewhere in November.
I love anything pumpkin, Lola, so I’ll be giving these cookies a try! I had a nice cayenne pumpkin chai at the bookstore yesterday. Yum! 🙂
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I hope you’ll like them! I thought these cookies were really good. That pumpkin chai you had sounds really good, I haven’t tried any drinks with pumpkin yet.
Wow. These look really good and I’m not a big fan of pumpkin. 🙂
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I like pumpkin although I don’t like all dishes I tried with it so far, but these cookies are great! They taste enough to pumpkin to know you added it, but not too much to be overhwelming.
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