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Easy Pumpkin Cookies with maple buttercream frosting on a cooling rack .

Easy Pumpkin Cookies

Fall in love with these Easy Pumpkin Cookies made with three simple ingredients . Fluffy cake-like, these cookies are perfectly spiced for a delicious seasonal treat!
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Course Cookies
Cuisine American
Servings 18 cookies
Calories

Ingredients
  

  • 1 15.25oz Duncan Hines Spice cake mix
  • 1 teaspoon Pumpkin Pie Spice
  • 15 oz canned pure pumpkin

Maple Buttercream frosting -optional

  • 1/2 cup Butter
  • 2 cups cups powdered sugar Sifted
  • 1 teaspoon maple flavoring
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1-2 Tablespoons milk

Instructions
 

  • Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Mix together the cake mix and pumpkin Pie Spice
    Cake mix and pumpkin spice in a mixing bowl of a stand up mixer
  • Add the entire can of pumpkin
    Cake mix , pumpkin spice in a stand up mixer with pumpkin puree added to make easy pumpkin cookie
  • Mix until the dough forms , it will be sticky
    Easy pumpkin cookies dough mixed in a stand up mixer
  • Scoop out cookie dough and place on a parchment lined baking sheet about an inch apart
    Easy pumpkin cookie dough scooped out onto a parchment lined baking sheet .
  • Bake in the preheated oven for 13-15 minutes . Let the cookies cool for about 5 minutes and transfer them to a cooling rack . The cookies are good at this point so the Maple Buttercream frosting is optional
    easy pumpkin cookies cooling on a cooling rack
  • To make the frosting beat the butter for about 2 minutes add half of the powdered sugar and maple flavoring . Beat until smooth , add the remaining powdered sugar . Thin out to the consistency you like with milk.
    Maple buttercream mixed in a stand up mixer for easy pumpkin cookies
  • Add a large dallop of frosting to each cookie . If frosted these cookies are good for about 2 days , they will get soggy after that .

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Notes

If you use a larger cookie scoop you will get 18 cookies 
Keyword Easy Pumpkin Cookies
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