Incredible Melt-In-Your-Mouth Pumpkin Cookies Recipe That Will Impress Absolutely Anyone

These cookies are incredible, such a great fall pumpkin recipe!

Not only do they sound and look super yummy, they are the melt-in-your-mouth kind of pumpkin cookie. They are easy to make, really amazing, and this is the perfect time of the year to bake them.

Want to impress someone? This homemade recipe for melt-in-your-mouth pumpkin cookies is outstanding!

Melt-In-Your-Mouth Pumpkin Cookies

This is Crissy Page’s recipe from Dear Crissy: soft, cakey pumpkin cookies with a brown sugar frosting on top.

What You’ll Need

• For the cookies: all-purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda, butter, canned pumpkin, cinnamon, eggs, granulated sugar, nutmeg, salt and vanilla
• For the frosting: brown sugar, butter, milk, powdered sugar, vanilla, and a sprinkle of cinnamon if you like

Makes: a big batch, about 5 dozen  |  Time: about 40 minutes, plus cooling before frosting

Why It Stands Out

• It makes a lot of cookies, which is handy for a bake sale, a cookie swap or a Thanksgiving dessert table.
• The brown sugar frosting tastes almost like caramel, and it is what people remember.
• Good to know: these are soft and cake-like, not chewy or crisp. If you want a chewy cookie, this isn’t the one.

Tips for Pumpkin Cookies

• Use plain canned pumpkin, not pumpkin pie filling, which is already sweetened and spiced.
• Measure the flour lightly. Spoon it into the cup and level it off. Packed flour makes heavy, dry cookies. Our guide how many teaspoons in a cup helps when you scale a recipe.
• Let them cool completely before frosting, or the frosting slides off.
• Storage: frosted cookies keep 3 to 4 days in a sealed container in a single layer. Unfrosted cookies freeze well.

Missing an Ingredient?

Out of eggs? Here is what to use instead of eggs in baking. For the frosting, any milk works. If the cupboard is bare, evaporated milk thinned with a little water is a good stand-in.

More Pumpkin Desserts

• Pumpkin spice chocolate chip cookies
• Pumpkin pecan cobbler
• Libby’s pumpkin pie

No pumpkin pie spice in the cupboard? See our pumpkin pie spice substitute chart.

Get your full written recipe, plus helpful tips and many other delicious recipes, at Dear Crissy.

Thanks to Crissy for this amazing recipe and featured image!

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