Pumpkin Cookies with Brown Butter Icing
Nov 24, 2009, Updated Nov 08, 2015
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These pumpkin cookies with brown butter icing are perfect for fall. Cakey cookies topped with homemade brown butter icing. How can you not love these cookies?
These cookies will be making a grand appearance at this years Thanksgiving dessert spread. Do you want to know how delicious they are? Amazingly delicious that is how much! They have a soft moist cake like texture and are topped with the most delicious brown butter icing. I know I’m back to talking about brown butter. I can’t help it. It’s so amazing. The best part about this icing is that you are guaranteed to get the nutty brown butter flavor in each and every bite….yum! Enjoy!!!
Pumpkin Cookies with Brown Butter Icing
These pumpkin cookies with brown butter icing is perfect for fall.Cakey cookies topped with homemade brown butter icing. How can you not love these cookies?
Ingredients:
For Cookies:
2-3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1-1/4 teaspoon coarse salt
1-1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1-1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
3/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1-1/2 sticks unsalted butter, softened
2-1/4 cup light-brown sugar - packed
2 large eggs
1-1/2 cup canned solid-pack pumpkin (14 ounces)
3/4 cup evaporated milk
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
For Icing:
4 C. confectioners' sugar - sifted
10 T. unsalted butter
1/4 C. plus 1 T. evaporated milk
2 t. pure vanilla extract
Source: Martha Stewart
Directions:
For Cookies:
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg in a medium bowl; set aside.
Put butter and brown sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Mix on medium speed until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Mix in eggs. Reduce speed to low. Add pumpkin, evaporated milk, and vanilla; mix until well blended, about 2 minutes. Add flour mixture; mix until combined.
Transfer 1 1/2 cups batter to a pastry bag fitted with a 1/2-inch plain tip (such as Ateco #806). Pipe 1 1/2-inch rounds onto parchment-lined baking sheets, spacing 1 inch apart. Bake cookies, rotating sheets halfway through, until tops spring back, about 12 minutes. Cool on sheets on wire racks 5 minutes. Transfer cookies to wire racks; let cool completely.
For Icing:
Put confectioners' sugar in a large bowl; set aside. Melt butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Cook, swirling pan occasionally, until golden brown, about 3 minutes. Immediately add butter to confectioners' sugar, scraping any browned bits from sides and bottom of pan. Add evaporated milk and vanilla; stir until smooth. Spread about 1 teaspoon icing onto each cookie. If icing stiffens, stir in more evaporated milk, a little at a time. Cookies can be stored in single layers in airtight containers at room temperature up to 3 days.
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Those cookies sound fantastic and I like the touch of browned butter icing on top..
I’ve never made brown butter icing, but I think I’d love it.
These look delish! I made some pumpkin cookies last year and threw in some cinnamon chips – AHHHH MAAAY ZING!
These look delicious. Sugar-tastic! Well done on the award too.
I just found your blog and I love it. I can’t wait to try these. Thank you!
Awesome cookies. I love the brown butter icing. Now I’m torn as to what dessert I should be making.
Thank you so much! You’re such a dear Invisible Friend and I wish we could meet in real life (and not just so I could eat these cookies.) I’m glad my words mean as much to you as yours do to me on my stories. Brilliant plan: I’ll write stories, you bake, and we’ll sell them together…we’ll make millions.
Donna: Thanks! The cookies really do pair well with the brown butter icing.
Jessica: Trust me you would 🙂
Amanda: I keep hearing about these cinnamin chips and I can never find them! Perhaps NY does not carry them….hmmmm….
Sarah: Thanks! It’s the icing that gets you on the sugar…hehe.
Yvette: Thanks for checking out my blog! I hope you like the cookies.
Jenn: Make these 🙂
Blond Duck: You’re so very welcome! I’m all about the baking if you are all about the writing!
Great post and wonderful cookies! I’m glad that you’ve stuck with blogging. I enjoy seeing what you bake up! Happy Thanksgiving!
Congrats on your award, and thanks so much for passing it on! I’m so happy we started All Through the Year Cheer (I couldn’t have picked a better person to partner with!)…it’s so much fun and I’m so happy to have had the chance to get to know you better…and you’re really nice too! 😀 I love reading your blog and getting inspiration…honestly, it’s because of your gorgeous macarons that I want to try to make them myself (for the 1st time, ever)!
These pumpkin cookies sound incredible, I love a cake-like pumpkin cookie. And the brown butter icing…well, it’s literally the icing on the cake! 😉