Pumpkin Spice Cookies with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting

Pumpkin Spice Cookies with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting: Submitted by: Wendy R Cook | Date Added: 13 Sep 2019 Ingredients:

Pumpkin Spice Cookies:
1/2 cup butter (sweet cream salted)
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 cup canned pumpkin
2 cups flour
4 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
2 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ginger
1 cup chopped walnuts or pecans (optional)

Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting:
1/2 cup butter
8 oz block of cream cheese
3 teaspoon vanilla
4 cups powdered sugar

Cooking Instructions:

Pumpkin Spice Cookies:
1. In a mixer cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
2. Add eggs and pumpkin and mix well.
3. Sift flour, baking powder, salt and spices together and fold into cookie batter.
4. Mix until well blended.
5. Drop a spoonful of the cookie batter onto a cookie sheet.
6. Bake in a 350 degree oven for 15 minutes.
7. Allow to cool.
8. Frost with cinnamon cream cheese frosting.

Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting:
1. Beat cream cheese, butter and vanilla in a mixer until blended.
2. Add powered sugar a cup at a time and continue to mix until sugar is incorporated.
3. Finally, add cinnamon.