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Harvest Pumpkin Spice Cookies With Lemon Buttercream Frosting Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Lunasea / All my dishes 1 year, 1 month ago I have been making these delicious cookies for years. Something about the lemon extract and rind in the cookies and the lemon rind in the frosting really lifts this cookie up to the heavens. People love these and you will too! ~ I remember wri... More Prep:30m Cook:12m Servings:84	Lunasea
	pumpkin vanilla lemon rind and extract cinnamon nutmeg allspice ginger toasted pecans yummm

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Ingredients

Cookies:

½ cup shortening

1 1/3 cups sugar

2 eggs

1 cup mashed, cooked pumpkin (can used canned, but use plain pumpkin – not pumpkin pie filling, okay?)

1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

½ teaspoon lemon extract

1 teaspoon grated lemon rind

2 ½ cups all-purpose flour

1 tablespoon baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 teaspoon nutmeg

½ teaspoon allspice

¼ ground ginger

1 cup raisins

½ cup toasted chopped pecans

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Lemon Buttercream Frosting:

¼ cup butter,softened

2 ¼ cups sifted powdered sugar, divided

3 tablespoons half-and-half

½ teaspoon-1 teaspoon grated lemon rind (depending on your love for lemon...I love it!)

Directions

Make the Cookies:

Preheat oven to 375 F.

Cream shortening in a large mixing bowl; gradually add sugar, beating well. Add eggs; beat until well blended. Stir in pumpkin, vanilla, lemon extract and grated lemon rind.

Combine flour, baking powder, salt and spices in a medium mixing bowl; stir well. Gradually add to creamed mixture, stirring well. Stir in raisins and toasted pecans.

Drop dough by teaspoonfuls 2 inches apart on greased cookie sheets. Bake for 12 minutes or until lightly browned. Remove to wire racks to cool.

Frost with Lemon Buttercream.

Yield: 7 dozen

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Make the Frosting:

Cream butter in a medium mixing bowl; gradually add 1 cup powdered sugar, beating until well blended.

Add remaining powdered sugar alternately with half-and-half, beating until smooth. Add lemon rind and beat well.

Makes frosting for 7 dozen cookies.

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Comments

theiris 1 year, 1 month ago said:
Not big on sweets but this is wonderful! Ingredients
are so nice. Will be sharing this with my sisters who do way more baking. Thanks Vicki, Mare

mystic_river1 1 year, 1 month ago said:
Terrific Miss Luna!

magali777 1 year, 1 month ago said:
HI HI HI Vickie!they look so delicious!mmmm....

angieaugusta 1 year, 1 month ago said:
Hai vickie,delicious cookies,great pict too.thx friend for sharing....

elgab89 1 year, 1 month ago said:
Wow, Vickie, what a great recipe and mix of ingredients!

greekgirrrl 1 year, 1 month ago said:
What a beautiful cookie! All those terrific spices give it that warm, snuggly quality that we all love and that is perfect for this time of year...YUM, Miss Vickie!

m2googee 1 year, 1 month ago said:
I cannot wait to try these morsels with a nice cup of anything!!!

marky90 1 year, 1 month ago said:
Hi Vickie, You know how I love my pumpkin!!!Yummy...Thanks my dear, marky

trigger 1 year, 1 month ago said:
I can not believe I almost missed these Harvest Pumpkin Spice Cookies With Lemon Buttercream Frosting.
Looks like I will have to forget about my chance for a blue ribbon..always next year.

Waving the surrender "flag"...speaking of flags, flagged as beautiful
Five forks

jett2whit 1 year, 1 month ago said:
Great post! Nice to see you around!!

canzi 1 year, 1 month ago said:
I LOVE pumpkin. This recipe looks excellent. Bookmarked! Thank you!!

jimrug1 1 year, 1 month ago said:
Hi Vickie,
Ditto what everyone said... ;-)~ These look and sound delicious. My kind of spices!!! However sigh..... I am a lousy baker. I am in need of a
volunteer to make and send me some......;-)~ Just rais your hand anyone....?? High 5 Sweetie... Jim

desertgal 1 year, 1 month ago said:
Looks yummie will be trying these soon.

conner909 1 year, 1 month ago said:
These look very tasty and the frosting looks like it really makes them exceptional! Thanks for this timely post!

m2googee 1 year, 1 month ago said:
Vickie, I just made these cookies!! I printed the recipe off the day you posted it and have just gotten around to making them. They are getting rave reviews at my house tonight. The frosting puts them over the top. I wish I could give you another 5 for these!!!!!!

meals4abby 1 year ago said:
Heaven!!!

maxy_bo 1 year ago said:
I needed to make something for a hospitalty room. I made these and they are amazing. I didn't have raisins so I used dried cranberries as a sub.

A great recipe as always. I wish I could be a fly on the wall of your kitchen!

ttaaccoo 9 months, 3 weeks ago said:
These do sound like "up in the heavens"! I love lemon too. You really rock girlfriend!

pinkpasta 1 month ago said:
OMG! these sound so good... I want to make them RIGHT NOW!!!
5 Forks!
Thanks for sharing!

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