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Easy Cake Mix Pumpkin Cookies

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By Betty Crocker Kitchens
Updated Sep 11, 2020
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Take a shortcut to fall with easy cake mix pumpkin cookies! Just grab a box of classic Betty Crocker™ Super Moist™ yellow cake mix, add pumpkin puree and cream cheese, and you have the main ingredients for a quick dessert. Cake mix pumpkin cookies are soft, chewy, and a perfect treat for welcoming the fall season. Top these cookies with your own delicious homemade cream cheese frosting (or just pick up some from the store) and finish them with a little extra pumpkin pie spice.

Easy Cake Mix Pumpkin Cookies

  • Prep Time 35 min
  • Total 1 hr 35 min
  • Servings 36
  • Ingredients 11
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Ingredients

Cookies

Frosting

  • 6 oz (from 8-oz package) cream cheese, softened
  • 3 tablespoons butter, softened
  • 1 1/4 cups powdered sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Topping

  • 1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice

Instructions

  • Step 
    1
    Heat oven to 350°F.
  • Step 
    2
    In large bowl, beat 8 oz cream cheese, 1/2 cup softened butter and pumpkin with electric mixer on medium speed about 1 minute or until well blended; scrape side of bowl. Beat in egg until smooth. On low speed, beat in cake mix and 1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice until blended. Drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets.
  • Step 
    3
    Bake 13 to 15 minutes or until edges are light golden brown. Cool on cookie sheet 2 minutes; remove from cookie sheet to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 20 minutes.
  • Step 
    4
    In medium bowl, beat Frosting ingredients with spoon until smooth. Spread about 2 teaspoons frosting on each cookie. Sprinkle 1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice on tops of frosted cookies. Store covered in refrigerator.

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