Iced Pumpkin Cookies
Source of Recipe
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List of Ingredients
1 cup unsalted butter
1 cup sugar
1 cup cooked pureed oumpkin -- (fresh or canned)
1 egg
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
1 cup walnuts -- coarsely chopped
1 cup raisins
Icing
2 cups sifted confectioners' sugar
1/4 cup butter -- softened
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 tablespoons whipping cream, fresh orange juice or rum
Recipe
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Add pumpkin, egg and vanilla and
mix
well.
Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg.
Stir
into butter mixture until well blended.
Add nuts and raisins.
Drop by teaspoonful onto parchment covered baking sheet, about 2
inches
apart.
Bake about 15 minutes, or until golden. Cool.
Icing: Cream confectioners' sugar and butter. Add remaining
ingredients and
beat until smooth. (If icing
is too thin, add more confectioners' sugar, if too thick, add more
cream,
orange juice or rum.)
Drizzle over cookies.
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