Pumpkin Spice Sugar Cookies
This classic recipe has a fall twist with the addition of pumpkin spice. They are soft, chewy and full of warm pumpkin spice flavour, An easy fall recipe.
Ingredients
- 1 cup of unsalted butter at room temp.
- 1 cup of sugar
- 1 large egg
- 2 tsp of vanilla extract
- 2 cups of Flour
- 2-3 tsp of Pumpkin Spice depending on how much pumpkin flavour you prefer.
- 1 tsp of salt
- 1 tsp of baking powder
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F and line two cookie sheets with parchment paper and set aside.
- In a bowl add your flour, pumpkin spice, salt and baking powder and whisk together and set aside.
- With stand mixer or hand held cream butter and sugar together for about 5 mins. until mixture light and fluffy. Stop and scrape down sides in between.
- Add egg and vanilla and mix for another minute.
- With mixer on low speed slowly add your dry ingredients in and mix until just combined.
- If time allows you can wrap dough and refrigerate for 20 mins.
- Place them on lined cookie sheets and bake for 10-12 mins.
- Let them rest on sheet for a few minutes before transferring them to cooling rack. Here's a tip once you remove sheet pan from oven bang it on the counter a few times it will flatten cookies out a bit.
Notes
These cookies keep well covered on counter for 2 days or fridge for up to 5 days.
You can freeze them by placing them in zip lock or air tight container. They keep for 2 months.