Description
Welcome fall with these deliciously thin pumpkin spice cookies that the whole family can help make!
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 cups flour
- 2/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1/3 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup cold butter
- 1 egg
- 3 tablespoons pumpkin puree
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
- Colored sugar crystals for decorating
Instructions
- In a stand mixer or with a hand mixer, cream together the cold butter, sugar, brown sugar, egg, and pumpkin. It is okay if there are some butter lumps.
- In a separate bowl, measure out your flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
- Slowly add your dry ingredients to the already mixed wet ingredients, mixing well between each addition.
- Once all the dry ingredients have been worked into the wet, add your vanilla extract.
- Refrigerate the cookie dough for at least 2 hours.
- Roll out the dough as thin as possible on a well-floured surface and use cookie cutters to cut out each cookie.
- Arrange the cookies on a baking sheet and decorate the top with either raw sugar or your colored sugar crystals.
- Bake at 325 degrees for 10-12 minutes.
- Remove from baking sheet and allow to cool on either a cooling tray or clean flat countertop.