Happy Friday everyone!!!
I figured since it IS Friday and I AM VERY pregnant and tired, it’s the perfect time to post one of my favorite mental health recipes! (i.e. not healthy at all, but so dang yummy and very good at lifting the spirits!)
Ha.
This recipe is for the best Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies EVER! Oh, and they’re topped with Cream Cheese Frosting too. I’m SO SERIOUS when I say they are the best ever guys! I got this recipe from my friend Judy and she is FAMOUS for it.
Sooooo, here ya go!
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting
Makes 36 cookies
Cookie Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup butter; softened
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 cup canned pumpkin
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
Cookie Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Combine flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, nutmeg and cinnamon. Set aside.
In medium bowl, cream butter, sugar and egg together.
Add pumpkin and beat until creamy.
Add dry ingredients to pumpkin mixture and mix until well combined.
Add vanilla and Chocolate Chips. Mix.
Drop by spoonful onto baking sheet lined with parchment paper (or coated with cooking spray.)
Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes, or until cooked through.
After cookies are cooled, top with frosting.
Frosting Ingredients
(This makes a LOT of frosting. You could either half the recipe or save the leftover frosting for something else):
- 1/2 cup butter; softened
- 1 8 oz. container cream cheese; softened
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Frosting Directions:
Cream butter and cream cheese together. Add sugar and vanilla and mix well.
Top cooled cookies with frosting!
Enjoy!
I hope you guys LOVE these cookies and I hope y’all have a fabulous weekend!
- Serves: 36
- Serving size: 1 cookie with frosting
- Calories: 129
- Fat: 5
- Carbohydrates: 20
- Sugar: 13
- Sodium: 120
- Fiber: .5
- Protein: 2
- Cholesterol: 19
- Cookie Ingredients:
- ½ cup butter; softened
- 1½ cups sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 cup canned pumpkin
- 2½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
- Frosting Ingredients:
- ½ cup butter; softened
- 1 8 oz. container cream cheese; softened
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- Cookie Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Combine flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, nutmeg and cinnamon. Set aside.
- In medium bowl, cream butter, sugar and egg together.
- Add pumpkin and beat until creamy.
- Add dry ingredients to pumpkin mixture and mix until well combined.
- Add vanilla and Chocolate Chips. Mix.
- Drop by spoonful onto baking sheet lined with parchment paper (or coated with cooking spray.)
- Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes, or until cooked through.
- Frosting Instructions:
- Cream butter and cream cheese together.
- Add sugar and vanilla and mix well.
- Top cooled cookies with frosting!
Ooo! These look so good! I’m keeping this for fall! I love any and all things pumpkin!
I hope you love them! They are seriously so so yummy and sooooo addicting. Very dangerous!
If Pumpkin was not part of my life, I would not be the same person I am right now! LOL!
Ha ha ha! I am a huge fan of pumpkin too and can’t imagine not having it in my life!
I WANT ALL THE PUMPKIN. I am so ready for fall.