Pumpkin Snickerdoodle Cookies Recipe
Enjoy these pumpkin snickerdoodle cookies that are chewy and gooey with cozy fall flavors of pumpkin, pumpkin spice, and cinnamon sugar.
Serving60 cookies
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter
- ½ cup vegetable shortening
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup light brown sugar
- ¾ cup pure pumpkin puree
- 1 large egg
- 3 ¼ cup flour
- 2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ cup sugar, (for rolling)
- 1 Tablespoon cinnamon, (for rolling)
- ½ teaspoon ground ginger, (for rolling)
Equipment
- Mixing Bowl
- Sheet Pan (Quarter)
- Spatula
- Mixer (Hand)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400℉.
- Beat together butter, shortening, sugars, pumpkin, and egg.
- Mix in flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon and mix until well combined.
- Chill dough in the refrigerator for 30-60 minutes.
- Roll dough into 1-inch balls.
- In a separate bowl, mix ½ cup sugar, 1 Tablespoon cinnamon and ½ teaspoon ground ginger.
- Roll dough balls in sugar mixture until completely coated.
- Place dough balls about 2" apart on ungreased cookie sheet.
- Bake 7-9 minutes until lightly browned, but still soft.
Notes
If you haven't ever tried chilling your dough, you need to. Chilling your dough leads to tastier and better looking cookies. They stay puffy, they cook more evenly, and the color actually looks better.
- Your cookies will taste better. The sugars have more time to absorb the moisture from other ingredients. This leads to a more condensed flavor, and sweeter tasting cookies.
- Less spreading. Thin cookies burn faster, but as the dough chills and hardens a little bit, they don't cook as flat. The chilling minimizes the spreading out of fat when you cook them. Everyone loves a thick chewy cookie with a soft middle. My mouth is watering just writing about these.
- A more appealing color. This again is related to the sugar in the cookie. Chilling the dough and sugar gives the cookie a more evenly golden color.
Nutrition
Calories: 75 kcal · Carbohydrates: 11 g · Protein: 1 g · Fat: 3 g · Saturated Fat: 1 g · Polyunsaturated Fat: 1 g · Monounsaturated Fat: 1 g · Trans Fat: 1 g · Cholesterol: 7 mg · Sodium: 16 mg · Potassium: 18 mg · Fiber: 1 g · Sugar: 5 g · Vitamin A: 528 IU · Vitamin C: 1 mg · Calcium: 4 mg · Iron: 1 mg