Pumpkin Spice Sugar Cookies - Fall is in the air and that means it's pumpkin everything time! Pumpkin Spice Sugar Cookies actually have pumpkin in the cookie!
Cuisine American
Prep Time 30minutes
Cook Time 10minutes
Total Time 40minutes
Author Rob
Ingredients
2cupsunsalted sweet cream butter, softened
1cupsugar
1cuplight brown sugar
1/4cuppumpkin puree
2large eggs
1tspvanilla
2tspcinnamon
1/8tspnutmeg
1/2tspginger
1/2tspall-spice
7 cups flour (5 for the dough and 2 to roll out the cookies)
1tspsalt
Cookie Cutter : pumpkin
Icing ingredients :
4egg whites
1/2tspcream of tarter
1/2tspvanilla
4 1/2cupspowdered sugar
Orange, and green gel food coloring
2 disposable piping bags fitted with a number 2 tip
Royal Icing Directions:1.Using the standing mixer, combine the egg whites, cream of tarter, vanilla and powdered sugar and mix until combined and stiff peaks form2. Split icing into 2 bowls. Add a few drops of Orange into one of the three bowls3.Add a few drops of green into the second bowl. Mix until the colors are blended and the shades you want4.Scoop about 1/4 C of icing into their own bags.Add 2-4 tsp of water into the remaining icing bowls and mix until combined5.Pour the icing's into squeeze bottles Outline the pumpkin cookies like shown in the sample image6. Fill in the two outer spots with the thinned orange icing and allow to dry for two hours before filling in the center7. Using the green icing, pipe on the stem and and fill in with the green icing8. Pipe on vines onto the pumpkins and allow to dry for an hour before enjoying.