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Pumpkin cookies recipe – how to make cookies with pumpkin
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Pumpkin cookies

Fluffy, spicy and aromatic are the pumpkin cookies. They taste delicious at any time of the year and are perfect for dessert after dinner with tea and coffee, for snacking in between or as a gift. Plus, you can easily and quickly make the cookies yourself with this recipe.
Course Dessert
Prep Time 25 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Servings 33 cookies

Ingredients

  • 200 g pumpkin puree (from Hokkaido pumpkin)
  • 100 g butter melted and cooled to room-warm
  • 120 g sugar
  • 1 egg
  • approx. 600 g flour
  • 15 g baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp ginger powder
  • 1 pinch of nutmeg
  • 1 pinch of salt

for the dusting

  • powdered sugar

Instructions

  • Mix pumpkin puree, sugar, egg, cinnamon, ginger powder, nutmeg and salt until homogeneous.
  • Add melted and cooled butter and mix again until homogeneous.
  • Mix flour with baking powder, add it in batches to the pumpkin mixture and knead it into a soft, somewhat sticky dough.
  • Shape the dough into small balls (for me just a little bigger than walnut), spread them on two baking sheets lined with parchment paper with plenty of space between them and press each ball a little flat.
  • Bake the cookies with pumpkin first on one baking sheet, then on the other in the preheated oven at 180 °C top and bottom heat for about 15 minutes each and let them cool.
  • Dust the pumpkin cookies lightly with powdered sugar.

Notes

  • Instead of using Hokkaido, you can make the puree from another type of pumpkin.
  • You can add any spices to the pumpkin cookies.
  • You can adjust the amount of sugar according to your taste.
  • Depending on how juicy the pumpkin is, the amount of flour given may vary greatly. Add only enough flour with baking powder to the remaining ingredients until you get a soft, only slightly sticky dough. It should not be mushy, but also not too firm or dry.
  • Do not knead the dough too long, just until it reaches a homogeneous consistency so that the cookies taste fluffy and not firm when baked.
  • Do not bake the cookies longer than necessary or they may taste dry. Use a toothpick to check if they are done baking.
  • Note the detailed tips and tricks for making the pumpkin cookies at the top of the post.