Melt In Your Mouth Pumpkin Cookies

Today is most most favorite recipe from pumpkin week! They are so delicious and highly addictive! I made these melt n your mouth pumpkin cookies to take to a gathering and got many compliments on how tasty they were. One person described them as being like a frosted muffin top!

The cookies are so tender and moist. Most pumpkin cookies tend to be more on the dense, not this one.  Then, these tender morsels get topped with a buttery maple frosting! The frosting is really what adds to these amazing cookies. Make them, you’ll thank me, I promise!

Melt In Your Mouth Pumpkin Cookies

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Ingredients

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• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp nutmeg
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 3/4 cup plus 2 Tbsp pumpkin puree
• 2 cups flour
• Frosting
• 1 cup butter
• 6 Tbsp real maple syrup
• 3 cups powdered sugar

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Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. I a large bowl, beat the butter until fluffy. Then beat in the sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg until well blended.
3. Add the egg and vanilla and beat to combine. Beat in the pumpkin.
4. The beat in the flour just until combined.
5. Drop heaping spoonfuls of dough on a cookie sheet. I use a cookie scoop. Bake at 35- degrees for 10-12 minutes until the tops are set.
6. Transfer to a cooling rack.
7. For frosting, place ingredients in a bowl and blend until smooth and well combined. Spread frosting on cooled cookies. Makes about 3 dozen cookies.

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Recipe adapted from Better Homes and Gardens.