pumpkin cookies with cream cheese frosting (the world's best!)

Ingredients

• Servings: 3
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1 cup butter
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 egg
• 1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree
• 1 (3 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
• 1/4 cup butter, softened
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 cups confectioners' sugar

Recipe

Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 10 mins Ready Time: 1 hr 10 mins


• preheat oven to 350 degrees f (175 degrees c). lightly grease baking sheets.
• whisk flour, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda, nutmeg, and ginger together in a bowl. beat 1 cup butter, sugar, brown sugar, 2 teaspoons vanilla extract, and egg with an electric mixer in a separate large bowl, beating until mixture is smooth. beat in pumpkin puree. gradually stir dry ingredients into pumpkin mixture. batter will be moist.
• spoon batter by teaspoonfuls about 2 inches apart prepared baking sheets.
• bake in the preheated oven until cookies are lightly browned, 10 to 12 minutes. let cookies cool for about 5 minutes on sheets before removing to finish cooling on waxed paper.
• beat cream cheese, 1/4 cup butter, and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract in a bowl with an electric mixer until soft and creamy. beat in confectioners' sugar, about 1/2 cup at a time, until frosting is smooth and spreadable. frost cooled cookies with cream cheese frosting.