Madeline's Pumpkin Pie Cookies

 

Pumpkin Pie cookies 

Ingredients for the pumpkin pie cookies: 

•  2 cups of all-purpose flour

•  ½ teaspoons of baking powder

•  ½ teaspoons of fine slat

• ¾ teaspoon pumpkin pie spice

• 2 sticks (1 cup) unsalted butter, at room temperature

• ¾ cup granulated sugar

• 1 large egg

• 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract

Pecan crumble:

• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter

• 3 tablespoons roughly chopped pecans

• 2 tablespoons light brown sugar

• 2 tablespoons rolled oats

• 1/4 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice

Pumpkin Pie filling:

• 1/2 cup confectioners’ sugar

• 1/4 cup pure pumpkin puree

• 3 ounces cream cheese

• 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

• 1/4 teaspoon fine salt

I chose this recipe because it's something I would always make with my cousins growing up for thanksgiving. We would always just be standing around in the kitchen while the adults would be making the food during thanksgiving. Since we would always be bored waiting around we decided to search the web for some easy recipes we could make. We came across pumpkin pie cookies and we all loved how good they sounded. This is a really meaningful recipe to me because it reminds me of all the special moments I got to have with my cousins. We would always laugh and make a huge disaster while making these. Making some little cookies that should be a one person job and like 10 of us would be trying to make them just lead to a mess. But we had so much fun making these cookies as well as listening and blasting music while we cleaned up our mess. Although our cookies always turned out looking ugly, burned or even with someone's hair in it we all still had lots of fun and made good memories. Nowadays for thanksgiving I don't really end up with my cousins because some of them are old and have their own families now so it is hard to see them. Most of my family moved away and everyone is all across the country or even in a different country so it is really hard to be able to see them. I am just glad I got to have those fun moments with them growing up. Whenever I think of these cookies it just brings me back to those memories and how in the moment I never knew that those times were limited and we can’t ever go back. But it also makes me feel grateful for all those times.