It’s not fall until you’ve made a batch of your favorite pumpkin cookies! These from-scratch cookies have all the delicious warming spices of pumpkin pie with the addition of pecans—talk about fall forward! If their pillow-y, soft texture isn’t enough to win you over, then the gentle drizzle of white chocolate on top will certainly do the trick. This recipe yields 42 servings, so you’ll have enough of these pumpkin-pecan spice cookies to share with your whole neighborhood!
Pumpkin-Pecan Spice Cookies
- Prep Time 1 hr 5 min
- Total 1 hr 35 min
- Servings 42
- Ingredients 17
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups packed light brown sugar
- 1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup canned pumpkin (not pumpkin pie mix)
- 3 teaspoons vanilla
- 2 3/4 cups Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/8 teaspoon ground allspice
- 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
- Pinch ground cardamom
- 1 1/3 cups finely chopped pecans
- 1/2 cup white vanilla baking chips
- 4 oz vanilla-flavored candy coating (almond bark), chopped
Make With
Gold Medal Flour
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 350°F. Grease cookie sheet with shortening or cooking spray, or line with cooking parchment paper or silicone baking mat.
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Step2In large bowl, beat brown sugar, butter, eggs, pumpkin and vanilla with electric mixer on medium speed. Stir in flour, baking powder and spices. Stir in pecans and baking chips. Drop dough by tablespoonfuls onto cookie sheet.
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Step3Bake 10 to 14 minutes or until edges are lightly browned. Remove to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.
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Step4Place candy coating in small resealable freezer plastic bag; seal bag. Microwave on High about 1 minute or until softened. Gently squeeze bag until coating is smooth; cut off tiny corner of bag. Squeeze bag to drizzle coating over cookies. Let stand until set.
Nutrition
140
Calories
7g
Total Fat
2g
Protein
18g
Total Carbohydrate
12g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Cookie
- Calories
- 140
- Calories from Fat
- 60
- Total Fat
- 7g
- 11%
- Saturated Fat
- 3g
- 14%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 15mg
- 6%
- Sodium
- 80mg
- 3%
- Potassium
- 60mg
- 2%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 18g
- 6%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 12g
- Protein
- 2g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 10%
- 10%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 4%
- 4%
- Iron
- 4%
- 4%
Exchanges:
0 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1 1/2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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