Spiced Pumpkin Muffin Cookie Recipes

PUMPKIN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Line a 12-hole muffin tin with muffin cases. Mix the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and both sugars together in a large bowl. Break up any lumps of brown sugar by rubbing them between your fingers.
• Whisk the purée and eggs together in a jug, then add to the dry ingredients with the melted butter. Whisk for 1-2 mins with an electric hand whisk until just combined.
• Bake for 15 mins until golden and risen and a skewer inserted comes out clean. Lift onto a wire rack to cool completely. Will keep for three days in an airtight container.

SPICED PUMPKIN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400 degrees.
• Stir together flour, sugars, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, baking soda and ginger in large bowl.
• Stir together all remaining ingredients in medium bowl; stir into flour mixture just until moistened.
• Spoon into paper-lined or greased muffin pan.
• Bake for 15 to 20 minutes or until lightly browned.
• Cool 5 minutes; remove from pan.

SPICE PUMPKIN COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, beat cream cheese and sugars until smooth. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in pumpkin and vanilla. Combine the dry ingredients; gradually add to pumpkin mixture and mix well., Drop by tablespoonfuls 2 in. apart onto ungreased baking sheets. Bake until golden brown, 10-12 minutes. Remove to wire racks to cool., For frosting, in a small bowl, combine the confectioners' sugar, butter, vanilla and enough water to achieve frosting consistency. Frost cookies; sprinkle with pecans.

PUMPKIN PIE COOKIE BARS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Line 13x9-inch pan with foil, leaving foil overhanging at 2 opposite sides of pan; spray with cooking spray.
• In large bowl, mix cookie mix, softened butter, egg, dry pudding mix and pumpkin pie spice with spoon or hands until dough forms. Press dough in bottom of pan.
• Bake 16 to 20 minutes or until golden brown. Cool completely on cooling rack, about 1 hour.
• Remove bars from pan by lifting foil; peel foil away. Cut into 27 triangles as follows: Cut 3 horizontal rows. Cut each row into 9 triangles so each triangle has a 2-inch wide base. (See diagram below.) Set aside end pieces for snacking.
• In small microwavable bowl, place 1 1/4 cups frosting. Stir in orange food color and 1/4 teaspoon of the cocoa until blended. Spoon 1/2 cup orange-tinted frosting into decorating bag fitted with small round piping tip. Pipe a border on outside edge of each triangle. Let stand 15 minutes to set border.
• Microwave remaining orange-tinted frosting uncovered on High 10 to 30 seconds or until thin enough to pour and spread (also known as flooding). Place about 1 teaspoon warmed frosting in center of each triangle. Using back of measuring teaspoon, carefully push and spread to glaze top of bar. Repeat with each triangle. Rewarm frosting in microwave to maintain glazing consistency if needed. Let stand 10 minutes to set glaze.
• In another small bowl, place 3/4 cup frosting; stir in remaining 3/4 teaspoon cocoa. Spoon cocoa frosting into another decorating bag fitted with small star piping tip. Pipe 5 to 6 small stars at short edge of each triangle.
• Clean same star piping tip used in above step, and place into another decorating bag. Spoon remaining 1/3 cup vanilla frosting into decorating bag. Pipe small rosette in center of each bar. (Use photo as guide.)
• Store covered in single layer in airtight container at room temperature.

SPICED PUMPKIN MUFFIN-COOKIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• In a medium size bowl combine dry ingredients: flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and spices- nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon, ginger. In a large bowl cream together with a hand mixer brown sugar, sugar, butter and eggs until smooth. Blend in vanilla and pumpkin. Once well mixed, add the dry ingredients and blend with mixer until combined.
• In a mini 4 or 6 cavity pie pan (such as Wilton), spray bottom and sides with cooking spray. Add to each a heaping spoonful to each cavity and spread with the spoon to fill no more than 1/3 inch high of the mixture.
• Bake in 350 degree oven for 18 minutes until a prick in the center of the muffin cookie with a toothpick pulls out clean. Allow to cool in pan for 5 minutes and remove from pan to baking racks to cool completely. Repeat the process until all the batter is used if don't have multiple mini pie pans to cook in at the same time.