Soft Glazed Pumpkin Sugar Cookies
These perfectly soft pumpkin sugar cookies for a Fall dessert recipe spiced up with some pumpkin spice and topped off with an irresistible glaze!
I posted a sneak peak of these pumpkin sugar cookies on my Instagram page a few weeks ago and everyone was going crazy asking me for the recipe. Well, here it is! These are my new favorite cookies for the fall.
The pumpkin taste is pretty subtle, so if you’re looking for a really powerful, evident pumpkin taste then you might want to increase the pumpkin pie spice a little bit. Honestly, the taste was perfect to me and the hint of pumpkin taste was just enough.
Are you sick of pumpkin yet? It tends to happen fast for me as I do nothing but eat, sleep and breathe pumpkin and apple for months on end this time of year being a food blogger and all. I’m still going strong, though. Apparently, I seem to like it a little more every year. Yup, pumpkin grew on me.
I still have a very slight aversion to pumpkin pie (don’t hate me) but who knows, maybe that will change someday too. I’m not repulsed by it, I just really do not enjoy it whatsoever. Then again, I’m not a pie person in general. Did I bore you with my rambling?
These pumpkin sugar cookies stayed soft for several days which was a miracle. I love eating cookies days later and they still taste fresh….and that is what happened here. It doesn’t happen often! The cake-like texture helps a lot with that. I hope you make these and enjoy!
- ½ cup unsalted butter, softened
- ½ cup vegetable or canola oil
- ½ cup pumpkin puree {canned pumpkin}
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
- 2 large eggs
- 4 cups all purpose flour
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon cream of tartar
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 4 tablespoons water
- ¼ teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or silicone baking mat and set aside.
- In a large bowl, stir butter, oil, pumpkin, sugars, vanilla and eggs together until incorporated and smooth.
- Slowly mix in all dry ingredients until completely incorporated.
- Scoop onto prepared baking sheet using 1½ tablespoon scoop and flatten to ½ inch thick using the bottom of a glass where the bottom has been pressed in granulated sugar before flattening.
- Bake 8-9 minutes.
- While cookies bake, stir all ingredients together for glaze until smooth.
- Once cookies are finished baking, cool 3 minutes on baking sheet before transferring to cooling rack.
- Spread 1½ teaspoons glaze over each slightly warm cookie (glaze will run a little off the sides). Let glaze harden 2-3 hours before serving.
Recipe source: adapted from laurenslatest.com
My kids just love these soft glazed cookies. Even better that they are lightly flavoured with pumpkin spice. Creme of tartar is something a little more difficult to find here but hoping I can find in one of the speciality stores as my boys have been requesting these cookies. Just pinned!
I hope people aren’t sick of pumpkin because I only started posting pumpkin recipes in October! I love how non-cakey these cookies look (like pumpkin cookies usually are!) 🙂
It’s barely 8am over here and I am already drooling for one of these cookies. Keep bringing on the pumpkin recipes – I can’t get enough!
Ashley, these look amazing, I’d definitely eat 2, or 3, or 4… 🙂
I love a soft and chewy cookie. These look perfect! I’ll have to try making them. I think they’d be fun to give as gifts to our Thanksgiving guests as they’re walking out the door. Pinning!
I actually love that it’s more a hint of pumpkin than a blast – they look fantastic! Added to my ever-growing fall baking roster… 😉
I adore soft cookies with a bit of glaze. And the fact that they’re pumpkin makes them even better!
I never get sick of pumpkin! Or soft cookies with a great glaze like these. Really good — thanks.
These look so good. Pumpkin does seem to help lots of baked goods stay soft and it looks like your recipe if perfect. Love the glaze too.
O h dear – these look so buttery – so melt-in-ma-mouth-good! Love the pumpkin spice in the glaze!
They looks so very moist and tender, love the icing too!
These look perfectly soft and delicious! Love that glaze!
These look like little pillows of fall perfection!
Just the way I like my sugar cookies!
Not sick of pumpkin yet at all! We’ve only just begun fall, bring it on! Looks delicious by the way!
I love pumpkin and I LOVE soft squishy cookies 🙂
Soft cookies are the best! Never sick of pumpkin, love these pictures!
Yes to the mighty pumpkin! Especially with glaze!
These look fabulous and I can see why they are your new favorite cookies! That icing dripping!!! omg
No I am not sick of pumpkin yet—-especially yummy cookies like these dripping with frosting and begging me to go and get a glass of milk, a plate and a napkin—NOW.
These look so soft and tasty. And the glaze! It makes them all the better. YUM.