Soft pumpkin cookies
Recipe for homemade pumpkin cookies perfect for autumn
If you like aromatic autumn pumpkin baked goods, then you must try these soft pumpkin cookies with a delicate spiced flavor. After baking, the cookies are soft inside and slightly crispy outside. Best of all, their preparation is very simple – you don’t need to roll out the dough or cut out cookies with cutters. Just take portions of dough and roll them into balls. This is a great recipe for simple pumpkin cookies that you can also prepare with children! You must try them!
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Soft pumpkin cookies recipe step by step
If you’re looking for an idea for a tasty and aromatic autumn dessert, perfect as an accompaniment to coffee or tea, then you must bake these pumpkin cookies!
Soft pumpkin cookies recipe with video
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Ingredients for pumpkin cookies
- 120 g pumpkin puree (approx ½ cup – at room temperature)
- 170 g butter (softened)
- 200 g sugar (I used cane sugar – 1 cup)
- 1 egg (size L – at room temperature)
- 1 egg yolk (from a size L egg – at room temperature)
- 225 g wheat flour (all-purpose – 1½ cups)
- 0.5 teaspoon baking soda
- 0.5 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon nutmeg
- ½ teaspoon ginger (ground)
- 0.5 teaspoon salt
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How to make pumpkin cookies step by step
Step 1 – preparations
- Spread the pumpkin puree on a flat plate in a thin layer. Press a paper towel onto the puree to drain the moisture. Repeat this 5-6 times until the puree is drier.120 g pumpkin puree
- Mix together the flour, spices, baking soda, and baking powder.225 g wheat flour, 0.5 teaspoon baking soda, 0.5 teaspoon baking powder, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, ½ teaspoon nutmeg, ½ teaspoon ginger, 0.5 teaspoon salt
Step 2 – preparing pumpkin cookies
- Transfer butter and sugar to a large bowl – blend together for a few minutes.170 g butter, 200 g sugar
- Add the egg and egg yolk to the butter mixture and blend until combined.1 egg, 1 egg yolk
- Add the pumpkin puree to the bowl and blend briefly.
- Add the flour in two batches and blend briefly, just until combined.
- If the dough is very soft, put the bowl in the refrigerator for about an hour (I chilled mine for an hour).
- Turn on the oven to 170℃ convection or 180℃ top/bottom heat.
- Scoop portions of dough with a spoon and roll them into balls in your hands – mine were roughly the size of a ping-pong ball.
- Mix the sugar with the spices and roll the dough balls in it.approx 75 g sugar, 0.5 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 pinch nutmeg, 1 pinch ginger
- Arrange the cookies on a large baking sheet, leaving plenty of space between them.
Step 2 – baking pumpkin cookies
- Place the baking sheet with cookies into the preheated oven and bake for about 12-14 minutes – until golden brown.
- While the cookies are baking, prepare a second batch of cookies and bake them as before.
- Immediately after baking, the cookies are very soft and delicate – do not remove them from the baking sheet right away, wait until they cool down!
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Why bake such autumn pumpkin cookies?
I found the recipe for today’s soft pumpkin cookies on the In Bloom Bakery blog and liked it so much that I decided to try it. However, I made slight changes to it, and here I present the recipe with those changes. The cookies themselves are delicious! Wonderfully soft inside, nicely aromatic thanks to the spices, and they are quite large – just one cookie is perfectly sufficient for dessert or a snack. And I think such a pumpkin cake could easily be a nice, sweet breakfast! You must try this recipe if you enjoy aromatic, spiced sweets using vegetables in autumn and winter.
What ingredients are needed to prepare pumpkin cookies?
To make these easy pumpkin cookies at home, you will need a few basic ingredients. Below I list the products I used and possible substitutes.
- pumpkin – for these cookies (as well as for other sweet pumpkin baked goods), Hokkaido pumpkin will be best, as it is not very watery and has a strong orange color that looks great in baked goods; you can also use butternut squash
- butter – I used 82% extra butter, and it will be the best, but ultimately you can use a butter blend or vegetable butter
- baking soda and baking powder – if you don’t have baking soda, you can use a slightly heaped teaspoon of baking powder in total
- spices – if you don’t have cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger in your spice rack, you can also use gingerbread spice or pumpkin spice here – cookies with it will be just as tasty – add a flat tablespoon of spice to the cookies, and half a teaspoon to the sugar for coating
- sugar – for the cookies themselves, I added brown sugar, and for coating, regular white sugar; you can use any sugar here, or even xylitol or erythritol if you want to slightly reduce the calorie content of the cookies
How to make pumpkin spice?
If you’re planning more sweet pumpkin baked goods this autumn, you can prepare homemade pumpkin spice, which will be delicious and aromatic. You will need the following ingredients for it:
- 4 tablespoons ground cinnamon
- 3 teaspoons ground ginger
- 3 teaspoons ground nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon ground allspice
- 0.5 teaspoon ground cloves
Mix everything together and transfer to a jar – you can add the spice to all pumpkin baked goods – it will nicely enhance the flavor of cakes, muffins, but you can also add it to pumpkin pancakes or pumpkin crepes from my recipe :)
How to make pumpkin puree?
If you don’t know how to make pumpkin puree, I invite you to read my post on this topic – you can find it here. Everything is thoroughly described in the post, and I also included a short instructional video there.
Frequently Asked Questions – FAQ
How to store pumpkin cookies?
After the cookies have completely cooled, transfer them to an airtight container with a lid so they stay fresh longer and don’t dry out. At room temperature, they can last about a week, or even longer. The longer they sit, the less soft they will become, but they will still be delicious.
Can pumpkin cookies be frozen?
Yes, you can freeze these cookies for about 3 months.
How many calories does one pumpkin cookie have?
I got 15 large cookies from this recipe. Each of them therefore had about 178 kcal (carbohydrates – 21 g, protein – 1.9 g, fats – 9.6 g).
I hope that this simple recipe for aromatic pumpkin cookies will also find a place in your home and that you will gladly return to it on cloudy, rainy autumn days. Be sure to write in the comments how you liked them!
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Recommended pumpkin recipes
Be sure to also check out my other recipes for sweet and aromatic pumpkin baked goods prepared with various additions and in different forms. On the blog, you will find many recipes for delicious and simple cakes, but also for muffins, pancakes, and cookies. Here I recommend, among others, three such recipes, and many more on the blog.
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Soft pumpkin cookies simple recipe
If you like aromatic, spiced baked goods prepared with delicious autumn pumpkin, then you must check out this recipe for soft pumpkin cookies coated in sugar with spices. These cookies are amazing! Soft inside and crispy outside. Aromatic thanks to cinnamon, nutmeg, and a touch of ginger. What's more, to make these pumpkin puree cookies at home, you won't need a rolling pin or cookie cutters! Because you roll these cookies in your hands, coat them in sweet sugar, and then you can bake them! These are the simplest and best autumn pumpkin cookies!
See my thoroughly described step-by-step recipe with photos of the preparation and a short video where I show how to make homemade pumpkin cookies. With my tips, baking these autumn cookies will be easy and enjoyable!
