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Frosted Pumpkin Softies

These cookies are perfect for your Halloween party! Keep refrigerated right before serving to set the cream cheese frosting. The perfect cake-like cookie looks festive for pumpkin day, you can even use food coloring and turn the frosting orange!!
Plan Ahead Note: the butter and cream cheese need to be softened to room temperature.
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 12 minutes
Servings: 4 dozen
Course: Halloween
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

Cookies
  • 1 cup butter softened
  • ¾ cup firmly packed brown sugar
  • ¾ cup granulated sugar
  • 1 cup canned pumpkin
  • 1 egg
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 2 ½ cups quick or old-fashioned oats uncooked
  • 1 ¾ cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice or ground cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
Frosting
  • 3 oz. cream cheese softened
  • 1 Tablespoon milk
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla
  • 2 ½ cups powdered sugar

Method
 

Cookies
  1. Heat oven to 350°.
  2. Beat together butter and sugars until creamy.
  3. Add pumpkin, egg, and vanilla, beat well.
  4. Add combined oats, flour, pumpkin pie spice, baking soda, and salt, mix well.
  5. Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet.
  6. Bake 11 to 13 minutes or until light golden brown.
  7. Cool 1 minute on cookie sheet; remove to wire rack. Cool completely.
Frosting
  1. Beat together cream cheese, milk, and vanilla until smooth.
  2. Gradually beat in powdered sugar until smooth.
  3. Frost cookies, store covered in refrigerator.

Notes

Recipe from Favorite Brand Name Best-Loved Holiday Recipes