Soft Pumpkin Cake Cookies
These homemade Pumpkin Cake Cookies are little soft pillows of pumpkin spice and warm pumpkin flavors. They have a fluffy cake-like texture and taste like pumpkin cake in a cookie form. Topped with a cream cheese maple icing and will be a new Fall favorite cookie!
Servings: 44 cookies
Ingredients
To make the pumpkin cookies
- 1 can pumpkin puree
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 teaspoons pumpkin spice
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 3/4 cup salted butter softened at room temperature
- 1 cup dark brown sugar
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 whole large egg
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 teaspoons milk
To make the maple icing
- 3 ounces cream cheese softened at room temperature
- 2 tablespoons butter softened at room temperature
- 3/4 cup powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons pure maple syrup
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2-1 tablespoon milk
Instructions
To make the pumpkin cookies
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and line baking sheet with parchment paper. Place the pumpkin puree in a small bowl and blot it down with several paper towels to remove excess moisture. Set aside.
- In a medium bowl whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, pumpkin spice and cinnamon.
- In a large bowl, using a hand mixer or stand mixer, beat together the butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar until combined, about 2 minutes, scraping the bowl as needed.
- Add in the egg, vanilla extract, milk and pumpkin puree and continue mixing for another minute.
- Add the flour mixture and beat together until just combined, scraping down the sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula.
- With a small ice cream scooper (about 1 1/2 tablespoon of dough) scoop and place on the prepared cookie sheet.
- Bake cookies for 10 minutes and then let them cool for 5 minutes. Transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely.
To make the maple icing
- While the cookies cool, in a medium or large bowl, whisk together or beat with an electric hand mixer the softened cream cheese and butter. Add in the powdered sugar, maple syrup, cinnamon and milk. Add more powdered sugar if the icing is too thin, and more milk if it's too thick.
- Once the cookies have cooled, spoon or dip each cookie in the icing and place on cooling rack to dry and set. Top with cinnamon (optional) enjoy!