Pumpkin Cookies Recipe From Scratch

In a bowl stir together all purpose flour cream of tartar baking soda salt and 2 teaspoons pumpkin spice.

Pumpkin cookies recipe from scratch. Beat in pumpkin egg and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract until smooth. In separate bowl stir together flour baking soda baking powder cinnamon nutmeg and salt. Pumpkin pie filling has a lot of different ingredients and is watered down so it won t work in these cookies.

In a mixer cream together butter 1 cup sugar and brown sugar until light and fluffy about 4 minutes. Using either a cookie scoop or spoon drop large tablespoonfuls of cookie dough onto the cookie sheet. Add sugar and oil to a mixing bowl and stir well to combine.

In a separate bowl stir together the dry ingredients. For this recipe you ll want to use pure canned pumpkin not pumpkin pie filling. Bake the cookies in the preheated oven for 11 13 minutes.

Mix flour mixture into butter sugar mixture. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper. Drop on cookie sheet by tablespoonfuls.

Gradually beat in flour mixture. Using a hand mixer or a stand mixer fitted with paddle attachment cream the softened butter and both sugars together on medium speed until smooth about 2 minutes. Once the pumpkin cookies are done baking let them rest on the cookie sheet for 5 minutes and then move them to a wire rack to finish cooling off.

Add pumpkin egg and 1 teaspoon vanilla to butter mixture and beat until creamy. They were moist chocolatey and pumpkiny everything you want for a halloween season treat. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or spray very lightly with non stick cooking spray.