Pumpkin Cookies with Whipped Cream Cheese Icing....

[YellowRubberDuckie]

The best thing you will ever put in your mouth! And if you have a recipe for them, I will give ya a big kiss!
Thanks,
Duckie

[Crazy Guggenheim]

1. They sell something similar to that at Peet's Coffee. Only they have

sweet cheese. Yum!

[YellowRubberDuckie]

2. Sweet Cheese?

[Crazy Guggenheim]

6. Maybe it is just cream cheese.

[supernova]

3. Here's a pumpkin cookie

* 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
* 1 teaspoon baking powder
* 1 teaspoon baking soda
* 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
* 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
* 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 1/2 cup butter, softened
* 1 1/2 cups white sugar
* 1 cup canned pumpkin puree
* 1 egg
* 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
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* 2 cups confectioners' sugar
* 3 tablespoons milk
* 1 tablespoon melted butter
* 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

DIRECTIONS:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, ground cloves, and salt; set aside.
2. In a medium bowl, cream together the 1/2 cup of butter and white sugar. Add pumpkin, egg, and 1 teaspoon vanilla to butter mixture, and beat until creamy. Mix in dry ingredients. Drop on cookie sheet by tablespoonfuls; flatten slightly.
3. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes in the preheated oven. Cool cookies, then drizzle glaze with fork.
4. To Make Glaze: Combine confectioners' sugar, milk, 1 tablespoon melted butter, and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Add milk as needed, to achieve drizzling consistency.

edit: The glaze is a regular confectioner's sugar w/ milk glaze, but you could sub a cream cheese glaze (say the frosting normally reserved for carrot cake)

[YellowRubberDuckie]

5. Sounds great...

Not exactly the cookies from the local deli, but I'm sure they'd work! Thanks!
Duckie

[AmyDeLune]

4. Is this close enough...?

http://cookie.allrecipes.com/az/IcdPmpkinCks.asp

PUMPKIN COOKIES WITH CREAM CHEESE
FROSTING

COOKIES:

1 c. shortening
1 c. sugar
1 c. pumpkin
1 egg
2 c. flour
1 tsp. soda
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. salt

FROSTING:

1 tbsp. vanilla
1 lb. powdered sugar
1 stick butter
8 oz. cream cheese

Cream shortening, sugar, and pumpkin. Add egg and mix well. Add sifted dry ingredients. Drop from spoon onto cookie sheet. Bake at 375 degrees for 10-12 minutes.

Beat frosting ingredients until smooth. Frost cookies after they have cooled. 48 cookies.

Calories 145, fat 8.0 gm, calories from fat 49%, sodium 77.5 mg.

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