~Pumpkin Spice cookies~

~Welcome to Anne...the crafty lil Bee!~

Here you will find my many crafty ideas for you to enjoy looking at or to use in your own home. Please feel free to comment and to give me your crafty ideas. It's fall, and it's starting to smell like pumpkin spices in my house. I love this time of year. Lots of fun decorating ideas.

Here is a great Pumpkin Cookie receipe that I just love!


For the cookies:
1 cup sugar2 sticks unsalted butter, softened
2 tablespoons maple syrup
2 eggs
1 cup canned pumpkin
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/2 ground all spice
1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
Pinch ground cloves2
1/2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
Pinch of salt

For the frosting:
2 (8-ounce) packages of cream cheese
1 cup confectioners sugar
1/4 cup milk
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
Zest of one lemon
For Garnish:Whole pecans

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. In a mixer, fitted wirh a paddle, cream the sugar and the butter until light and fluffy. Add the maple syrup and eggs. Mix to incorporate. Add the pumpkin and mix. Sift together the flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg and cloves. Add the dry ingredients to the batter and mix well. Drop rounded tablespoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets. Bake for 10 minutes, or until lightly golden brown around the edges. Cool on racks. When cool, ice with the cream cheese frosting.

For the Frosting:
In a mixer, add the cream cheese. Beat until lightly fluffy. Beat in the powered sugar until smooth. Add milk and vanilla. Beat until smooth. If frosting is too thick, thin with a little more mil. Fold in the lemon zest. When cookies are cool spread with some of the frosting. garnish with a whole pecan