Halloween Pumpkin Cookies – Halloween Cookies

Halloween Pumpkin Cookies
by Diana Rattray

These pumpkin cookies are topped with a browned butter icing and chopped walnuts. Halloween cookies are great for a party or any other Autumn get-together.

Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup butter
• 1 1/2 cups light brown sugar, firmly packed
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup canned pumpkin purée
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/4 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 cup chopped pecans or other nuts
• Browned Butter Icing, below

Preparation:
In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and brown sugar until light and smooth. Beat in eggs, pumpkin purée, and vanilla. In another bowl, stir together flour, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, baking powder, salt, and baking soda. Add to the first mixture and stir until smooth. Stir in chopped pecans or other nuts. Drop cookie dough but spoonfuls onto lightly greased cookie sheets, or use Silpat-type sheets or parchment paper to line baking sheets. Bake pumpkin cookies at 375° for 10 to 15 minutes, or until lightly browned. Cool cookies on racks then spread with browned butter icing (below).

Browned Butter Icing

• 6 tablespoons butter
• 2 cups confectioners’ sugar, unsifted
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 3 to 4 tablespoons milk, or enough for spreading consistency
• chopped pecans or other nuts

Brown butter in a heavy saucepan over medium heat; remove from heat. Blend in confectioners’ sugar and vanilla. Beat in milk to desired spreading consistency. Frost the Halloween cookies and sprinkle with chopped nuts, if desired.

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Halloween Cutout Cookie Recipe

Halloween Cutout Cookies

• 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
• 1/2 cup butter or margarine — softened
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 eggs
• 4 cups Bisquick® Original baking mix
• 11 drops yellow food color
• 7 drops red food color
• 2 tablespoons baking cocoa
• Egg Yolk Paint — (recipe follows)

EGG YOLK PAINT

• 1 egg yolk
• 1/4 teaspoon water
• Food colors

Beat powdered sugar, butter, vanilla and eggs in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed, or mix with spoon. Stir in baking mix until soft dough forms. Divide dough in half. Mix yellow and red food colors into 1 half to make orange dough; mix cocoa into other half to make chocolate dough. Cover and refrigerate doughs separately 1 to 2 hours or until chilled.

Heat oven to 400º. Roll one-fourth of the dough at a time 1/8 inch thick on floured cloth-covered surface. (Keep remaining dough refrigerated until ready to roll.) Cut orange dough with 2- to 3-inch pumpkin-shaped cookie cutter and chocolate dough with medium-size cat-shaped cookie cutter. Place 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheet.

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