Kaleen's Pumpkin Cookies

I love all things pumpkin, and these are total yum! I even baked up the dough as doughnuts too! Super yum!

2 cup sugar

2 cup butter 

-thoroughly cream together 

1 16oz pumpkin (about 2 cups) 

2 eggs

2 tsp vanilla 

Add next and beat well

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp nutmeg

1/2 tsp allspice

(Do a heaping tsp/1/2 tsp of all your spices)

4 cups flour

Add all dry ingredients and mix again

*optional*

2 cup raisins 

1 cup nuts 

Scoop doing into rounded teaspoon onto greased pan and bake @350 for 12-15 mins. Until tooth pick comes clean. It's suppose to be soft like a cake so don't over bake

Icing ****

1/2 butter

1 cup brown sugar

1/4 milk

Bring to a boil and cook for 1 minute and let cook slightly. Add 1 tsp vanilla and keep adding small amounts of icing sugar while whisking to the right consistency.  Pour loonie size of icing onto slightly warm cookie

*** Notes: I tried these with chocolate chips and I didn't like them as much as I liked them with just nuts or plain! I made my own cream cheese icing  and they were delish!

Cream Cheese Icing

1 8oz Cream Cheese

2-3 Tbsp Butter

Powder Sugar Add until you like the consistency and taste. 

Milk added by the tsp to get the consistency you like if it's a bit thick.