Recipe of Award-winning Caramel Frosted Pumpkin Cookies

Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, caramel frosted pumpkin cookies. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

These soft pumpkin cookies are one of my favorite cookie recipes from The I Heart Naptime Cookbook! Whenever I take them anywhere, my friends are always asking for the recipe. I just can't even describe the amazing flavor that the caramel frosting adds. These soft, cake-like pumpkin cookies smell wonderful and are a great reminder of autumn.

Caramel Frosted Pumpkin Cookies is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Caramel Frosted Pumpkin Cookies is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook caramel frosted pumpkin cookies using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Caramel Frosted Pumpkin Cookies:

1. Make ready 2 cups sifted flour
2. Take 1 tsp baking powder
3. Get 1 tsp baking soda
4. Make ready 1 tsp cinnamon
5. Make ready 1/2 tsp salt
6. Make ready 1 cup shortening
7. Get 1 cup sugar
8. Get 1 cup pumpkin (canned)
9. Take 1 egg
10. Prepare 1 tsp vanilla
11. Make ready 1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts (optional - I don't like nuts so I skip this)
12. Make ready 1 cup chopped raisins (I don't think we actually ever chop them though)

Libby's doesn't taste as good in this recipe). Add the dry to the wet ingredients. Allow to cool completely before frosting. Little pumpkin cakes with creamy caramel frosting.

Instructions to make Caramel Frosted Pumpkin Cookies:

1. Sift dry ingredients together
2. Cream shortening and sugar
3. Stir in pumpkin and egg
4. Add dry ingredients, rasins, nuts, and vanilla
5. Drop by teaspoons on lightly greased baking sheet (or silicon mat or parchment paper) and bake 10 minutes at 350 degrees. Cool and frost with caramel frosting. Makes 6 dozen.
6. Frosting instructions: - 3 Tbsp butter - 4 Tbsp milk - 1/2 cup brown sugar - 1 cup sifted 10x sugar - 3/4 tsp vanilla - - Combine butter, milk, and brown sugar in sauce pan. Boil 2 minutes, stirring constantly. Cool and stir in powdered sugar and vanilla, beating until smooth and creamy.

Allow to cool completely before frosting. Little pumpkin cakes with creamy caramel frosting. And these cookies are so moist, I've left them out on the counter overnight and they were still fantastic the next day. Just made these for my first cookie swap AND going to bring a plate to the ladies that work in the office of my boys' elementary school. On to the cookies of the day: quite simply, these little beauties are a classically delicious, fluffy pumpkin cookie made even more delectable by a smear of creamy caramel frosting.

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