Pumpkin Sugar Cookies

Hello my sweets, I hope you all had a Happy Thanksgiving. I don't know about you guys, but I had 3 different Thanksgiving meals that day. I was one stuffed turkey! So today I will be sharing with you a sweet new recipe I thought was perfect for the fall holidays, pumpkin sugar cookies! I've always thought that once October started, it was officially pumpkin season until the New Year lol. Before I started baking, I was determined to find a few fall-shaped cookie cutters, which I did for only 74 cents EACH, what a deal! Now let's get to baking, as I always say, "I can make that!"

My cookie cutters are in the shapes of a leaf, turkey, acorn, and pumpkin. What's a pumpkin sugar cookie if it's not in the shape of a pumpkin!?

The ingredients you'll need are:

• 1 1/2 cups of white sugar
• 3/4 cup of butter
• 1 egg
• 1/2 cup of pumpkin puree
• 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla extract
• 1/2 teaspoon of ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon of salt
• 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder
• 2 1/2 cups of flour

Step 1: Preheat your oven to 400 degrees and place a sheet of parchment paper on a baking sheet.

Step 2: Cream together the butter and sugar until the mixture is smooth, then beat in the egg until smooth.

Step 3: Separate your wet ingredients (vanilla and pumpkin), your dry ingredients (cinnamon, salt, and powder), and your flour into 3 different bowls to make the mixing easier. When adding the flour to the dough, mix it in with a spoon FIRST, then continue to mix with a stand mixer.

Green bowl: pumpkin and vanilla, Orange bowl: flour, and Purple bowl: cinnamon, salt, and powder

Step 4: Chill the cookie dough in the fridge for about an hour. Here you have the option of rolling the cookie dough into balls or rolling out the dough flat to use cookie cutters. And I really wanted to use my seasonal cookie cutters!

Step 5: Before you use the cookie cutters, sprinkle some flour on a clean, flat surface and cut out as many cookies as you can.

* To add additional flavor, sprinkle a cinnamon/sugar mixture onto your cut out cookies OR roll the cookie balls in the same mixture.

Step 6: Bake the cookies for about 6-8 minutes. Let them cool for an additional 10 minutes.

Before...

After!!

After looking at my "before" photo, I realized I forgot to mention I also used a Texas-shaped cookie cutter lol. Make sure you share your creations with your friends and family. I hope you all enjoyed this recipe and until next time, hasta la vista bakers!!:)