Pumpkin Spice Soft Sugar Cookies

If a homemade pumpkin pie and a soft sugar cookie had little cookies of their own, well, let these speak for themselves. Add your favorite seasoned nuts if you wish. I happened to have had some caramelized sugar I had previously made and I crushed this up and added to the top of some of the cookies just before baking.

• Preparation Time: 15 mins
• Cooking Time: 5 mins
• Total Time: 20 mins
• Calories: 124 Calories

Ingredients

• 2 eggs
• 2 cups white sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 3 ½ cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 ½ cups butter, softened
• 1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
• cooking spray
• ¼ cup white sugar, or as needed

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Beat butter and 2 cups sugar with an electric mixer in a large bowl until creamy. Add eggs and vanilla; beat until smooth.

Step 2

Sift flour, pumpkin pie spice, baking powder, and salt together in a bowl. Add flour mixture to butter mixture and beat until flour is completely incorporated. Cover dough with plastic wrap and refrigerate until chilled, at least 1 hour.

Step 3

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Spray baking sheets with cooking spray.

Step 4

Pour 1/4 cup sugar into a shallow bowl.

Step 5

Drop spoonfuls of dough 2 inches apart onto prepared baking sheets. Moisten the bottom of a glass with water and dip the glass in sugar. Gently flatten each drop of cookie dough with the bottom of the sugared glass.

Step 6

Bake cookies in the preheated oven until set, 5 to 7 minutes.