Pumpkin Cookies Please!

I loved having time to do lots of baking this fall. I especially loved making these pumpkin cookies! Our whole house would smell amazing when we baked these cookies...

Pumpkin Spice Cookies with Brown Butter Icing

• 1 c. butter
• 1 egg
• 1 c. pumpkin
• 1 c. sugar
• 2 c. flour
• 1 1/2 t. powder
• 1/4 t. soda
• 1 t. cinnamon
• 1/4 t. allspice
• 1 c. chopped toasted pecans (opt.)

Mix dry ingredients together and set aside. Beat butter, sugar, and egg--add in pumpkin followed by flour mixture. Stir in pecans. Drop onto cookie sheet by spoonfuls. Bake 10-12 minutes at 375 degrees. Cool & Ice...

Brown Butter Icing: Melt 6 T. butter. Stir in 1/3 c. brown sugar--heat until bubbly. Remove from heat and add 2 c. powder sugar and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Add hot water until smooth (start with 1-2 T.). Ice cooled cookies immediately after preparing icing. Add more hot water if icing gets too thick.

Pumpkin Snicker Doodles:

• 3 & 3/4 c. flour
• 1 1/2 t. powder
• 1/2 t. salt
• 1/2 t. cinnamon
• 1/4 t. nutmeg
• 1 c. butter
• 1 c. sugar
• 1/2 c. brown sugar
• 3/4 c. pumpkin
• 1 egg
• 2 t. vanilla
• Extra: 1/2 c. sugar, 1 t. cinnamon, 1/2 t. ginger

Mix dry ingredients and set aside. cream butter, sugars, and egg-add pumpkin and vanilla. Add dry ingredients. Form dough into 1" balls and roll in extra sugar mixture. Flatten slightly and bake 10-12 minutes at 350 degrees. YUMMY!