Pumpkin Spice Sugar Cookies! -

We bake a lot in my house. Like, a lot . At least a few times a week I am preheating my oven, and it is not for dinner. During the summer, this passion of mine is hard to handle; you know, what with it being "surface of the Lord's day" hot outside. Only this fourth dimension of twelvemonth, as information technology finally starts cooling down (we got into the 60s this week! Ok it was center of the night, but I'll accept what I can become), I am fatigued to the kitchen. And it seems I take passed this passion on to my little boy.

Koa loves to exist in the kitchen helping me "cooook." The mom in me loves this special time nosotros spend together and memories we are making, while the teacher in me loves the amazing teachable moments that can be plant in the kitchen. One of the all-time things about my new Stay at Abode Mommy status, is the ability and time I at present take to spend with him doing these activities. Leisurely mixing and measuring and talking, baking memories.

Then, we melt, and bake, alot. This week, my beloved friend came over and brought her ambrosial daughter Miss S to bake and decorate cookies. Koa adores Miss S, so it made the whole experience even more special. And the states mommies got some time to chat which is ever fun! Add cookies and frosting and it'due south a wonderful afternoon.

So, these cookies. Oh these cookies! They are amazing. I love a proficient sugar cookie, but add some pumpkin and a fiddling spice and these are to die for cookies! Super piece of cake to throw together. They do have to sit down in the fridge for a bit earlier rolling out, which I normally hate. But believe me these are worth the wait. They held up to niggling hands and cookie cutters, held their shape after blistering, and stayed perfectly firm yet wonderfully soft, as a good carbohydrate cookie should. They are amazing alone, or decorated with frosting and sprinkles of course (as Koa prefers them.)

Pumpkin Spice Saccharide Cookies

Ingredients

• three 1/2 cups flour
• 3 ane/2 tsp pumpkin pie spice
• 1 tsp baking powder
• ane cup butter (2 sticks)
• 2/3 cup sugar
• i/3 cup brown carbohydrate
• 1/3 cup pumpkin puree (non pumpkin pie filling)
• i egg
• 1 tsp vanilla

Instructions

• In a medium bowl, mix the flour, baking pulverization and 3 tsp pumpkin pie spice using a whisk. Set up aside.
• In the bowl of an electrical mixer beat the butter until smooth.
• Add together both sugars and combine until calorie-free colored and fluffy. Scrape the sides of your bowl.
• Add egg, pumpkin and vanilla to the butter/saccharide mixture and mix until fully combined.
• Slowly and carefully add the flour mixture to the bowl while mixing. Scrape sides of the basin. Mix until combined and dough starts to brawl away from the sides.
• In a small bowl, mix two tbsp flour and 1/2 tsp pumpkin pie spice. Use this to flour your surface. (You lot tin use simply flour if you want to.) Plough the dough onto your floured surface and gently knead the dough, making certain to contain any leftover flour.
• Split the dough in half and shape into 2 disks. Wrap each disk with plastic wrap and air-condition for at least 1 hour (or overnight if you want.)
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Embrace 2 blistering sheets with parchment paper (or cooking spray.)
• While your oven is heating upwards, roll out your dough to an fifty-fifty thickness (the thicker the softer the cookie will stay.) Utilise whatsoever shapes y'all'd similar to cut them. We used pumpkins (of grade.)
• Place your cut out shapes on the baking canvass with at least a petty space in betwixt. Identify your blistering sheet in the freezer for near 10 minutes. (This will keep them from spreading.)
• Take your pan straight from the freezer and place in the oven.
• Bake for 9-10 minutes.
• Let cookies cool earlier frosting/decorating or eat plain as is.

Notes

* Every bit an culling to using rolling out the dough and using cookie cutters:

Instead of shaping the dough into disks, dissever and shape dough into 3 logs and wrap in plastic wrap. Place in freezer for at to the lowest degree 1 hour. When set up to bake, have out a log and use a sharp knife to cut slices. Continue to broil the same as above. This volition result in circle cookies rather than shapes. Still delicious!

**If you practise not have Pumpkin Pie Spice you can instead employ: Mix together the following- 2 tsp cinnamon 1/4 tsp ground ginger 1/iv tsp basis cloves 1/4 tsp nutmeg 1/four tsp allspice

Only measure out out what you need for the recipe later on mixing.

*** This dough freezes beautifully! Only wrap tightly in plastic wrap and place in a ziploc bag.

Recipe adapted from GloriousTreats

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http://www.recipeforasweetlife.com/pumpkin-spice-carbohydrate-cookies/

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For your amusement…

Subsequently making these, Koa ate two that he decorated creatively (run across picture above) with various frosting colors and sprinkles. He then proceeded to ask, and couldn't understand why he could non, have "coooookies" for dinner.

Koa: I wuv coookies Mommy.

Me: I know you do.

Koa: I wuv these cookies Mommy.

Me: I know. Y'all ate 2 already. You lot're not having anymore.

Koa: Why?? Pweeese Mommy. I wuv you. (Yep he already knows how to do that at his wise old three years.)

Me: No. Two is plenty. Y'all need to eat dinner.

Koa: Cookies are good for dinner, Mommy. (As he walks towards the cookies, starting to grab one.)

Me: No! You're done with the cookies tonight. (I plough around to finish cooking dinner.)

Koa: (tranquility, too quiet. Never a proficient sign with a small child.)

I turn around to come across him on his stool, in one hand a plastic knife full of dark-green frosting entering his mouth and the other paw with his fingers in the sprinkles.

Me: Hey! What are you doing!? (OK, truth exist told I was trying really difficult not to laugh)

Koa: I not eating cookies Mommy! (Said with a mouth total of light-green frosting and sprinkles, but not a cookie…)

Yeah, that'southward my kid. And I exit it at that.

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