Description
This is a great fall recipe. I usually make it around october/november as a holiday treat. I get requests each year to make them for friends. I found it in a newstand magazine called "cookies from the heart" by gold medal/betty crocker.
Ingredients
- Brown Sugar
- Butter
- Shortening
- Canned Pumpkin
- Egg
- Gold Medal All-purpose Flour
- Baking Powder
- Salt
- Ground Cinnamon
- Pumpkin Seeds
- Powdered Sugar
- Milk
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350f degrees
- Mix brown sugar, butter, and shortening in large bowl
- Stir in pumpkin and egg
- Stir in flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon
- Stir in pumpkin seeds
- Drop dough by rounded tablespoons about 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheet
- Flatten slightly
- Bake 12-15 minutes or until almost no indentation remains when touched in the center
- Remove from cookie sheet
- Cool completely on wire rack
- Frost cookies with cinnamon frosting
- Sprinkle with additional chopped pumpkin seeds
- Cinnamon frosting: mix all ingredients until smooth and spreadable