Two Yummy Pumpkin Desserts For A Cool Fall Weekend

Satisfy your fall cravings with these delicious, soft, and chewy pumpkin spice cookies! Made with real pumpkin, warm spices, and coated in cinnamon sugar, these cookies are the perfect treat for the season.

This Pumpkin Spiced Cookie recipe is super easy and takes less than an hour to make! The recipe creates a super chewy cookie that tastes even better the longer it sits. Feel free to get the kids involved with this simple recipe!

Pumpkin Spice Cookies just out of the oven.Photo byIntentional Hospitality

Pumpkin Spiced Cookies Get Better With Time

Our family loves snickerdoodles, so I set out to create a recipe that combines the flavor of my grandma’s snickerdoodles recipe with the warm spices of Fall pumpkin pie. The grandkids came over to help me test this recipe out, and 4 out of 4 said it was a winner. Even the self-professing, “I don’t like pumpkin,” grandson decided he liked pumpkin after all.

To my surprise, these cookies were even more flavorful the next day, and they stayed soft and chewy! I’m sure this recipe will become a favorite Thanksgiving cookie.

These cookies are perfect for making ahead of time. You can freeze the dough or cookies, so you’ll always have some on hand when guests roll into town!

Tips For Recipe Sucess

Pumpkin Spiced Cookies get even better after sitting for a day or two! They’re so soft and chewy and the pumpkin spice flavor is more pronounced!

Use a cookie scoop to get the perfect ball shape, and then roll the dough in your hands to create a smooth ball.

Ingredients

• ▢1/2 cup butter, slightly melted
• ▢1/4 cup brown sugar, packed
• ▢1/2 cup granulated sugar
• ▢1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• ▢1/2 cup pumpkin puree, *note – not pumpkin pie mix in can
• ▢1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• ▢1/4 teaspoon salt
• ▢1/4 teaspoon baking powder
• ▢1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• ▢1 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• ▢1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice

Coating

• ▢1/2 cup granulated sugar
• ▢1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• Make Your Own Pumpkin Pie Spice Blend

Here Are The Mixing and Baking Steps: Pumpkin Spiced Cookies

Make Your Own Pumpkin Pie Spice Blend

This is where it can get fun! I have several pumpkin pie spice blends that will allow you to create some unique flavor-forward pumpkin spiced cookies. Making homemade pumpkin pie spice recipe blends is a flavorful way to infuse a cozy flavor into recipes for pumpkin pie, drinks, roasted vegetables, and desserts. Try all four pumpkin pie spice recipes, including classic pumpkin spice, sweet vanilla, cozy earthy blend, or slightly spicy blend.

Start With A Cake Mix Pumpkin Bread

Cravings a warm piece of pumpkin spice bread? You are going to want to make this quick and easy Spiced Pumpkin Bread Using Cake Mix Recipe. Because you use a cake mix as the base, it only takes 10 minutes to mix up and pop into the oven. Before you know it, your home will be filled with the aroma of delicious spiced pumpkin bread.

Hot out of the oven cake mix pumpkin bread.Photo byIntentional Hospitality

Why You Will Want To Make This Recipe

• This simple pumpkin bread recipe requires only a large bowl and a loaf pan for baking.
• If you are calorie-conscious, you can use a sugar-free cake mix as the base of this recipe.
• Bake it in a sheet cake pan and top with some icing for a quick pumpkin cake.
• This pumpkin bread's flavor is full of warm fall spices, such as cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves.

Variations

• I like to add 1/2 cup of chocolate chips to my batter.
• Pecans or walnuts would also be delicious in pumpkin bread.
• Cut your bread into squares and top with cream cheese frosting for delicious treats.

Tips for making the recipe

• Be sure you buy pumpkin puree, not pumpkin pie filling.
• If you can not eat a whole loaf of pumpkin bread, then make this recipe in cupcake tins. You can easily freeze any extras in an airtight ziplock freezer bag.
• So your bread does not stick, it is best to spray your loaf pan with non-sticking cooking spray and line the bottom with parchment paper.

Here Is What You Will Need For Pumpkin Bread Using A Cake Mix

Ingredients

• ▢1 box yellow cake mix, You can use a regular cake mix or sugar-free.
• ▢1 15oz pumpkin puree, (not pumpkin pie filling)
• ▢1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• ▢2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
• ▢1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
• ▢3 eggs
• ▢1/4 cup applesauce, Unsweetened or sweetened, whichever you prefer.
• ▢1/4 cup coconut oil, Be sure it is melted to a liquid before pouring into bowl.
• ▢1/4 cup pumpkin seeds, These are for sprinkling on top before baking (optional)

Warm pumpkin bread out of the oven before you know it!