Recipe: 2021 Pumpkin spiced sugar cookies and royal icing

Pumpkin spiced sugar cookies and royal icing. It is the best sugar cookie dough that you are going to find I promise! They are easily and beautifully decorated with homemade Royal Icing to give the perfect dimensional You can add two teaspoons of pumpkin spice to your cookie dough if you want them to be pumpkin spice sugar cookies. These Pumpkin Spice Cutout Cookies are a delicious variation of traditional roll-out sugar cookies, and are just perfect for fall!

If a homemade pumpkin pie and a soft sugar cookie had little cookies of their own, well, let these speak for themselves. I made these cookies according to the directions. The only change was I added an extra tablespoon of pumpkin pie spice and I refrigerated the dough longer than required. You can have Pumpkin spiced sugar cookies and royal icing using 16 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Pumpkin spiced sugar cookies and royal icing

Prepare of For cookies.
It's 2 1/4 cups of flour sifted.
Prepare 3/4 cup of sugar.
You need 3/4 cup of butter room temperature.
Prepare 1 of large egg.
You need 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder.
Prepare 1/4 teaspoon of salt.
Prepare 1 1/4 teaspoon of vanilla.
It's 1 teaspoon of pumpkin spice flavoring.
It's 1 1/2 teaspoons of cinnamon.
You need 1/2 teaspoon of nutmeg.
You need 1 of + tablespoons milk(as needed).
You need of For royal icing.
You need 3 tablespoons of meringue powder.
You need 4 cups of powdered sugar.
Prepare 5 tablespoons of water plus more for thinning.

These pumpkin cookies are a little more cloud-like than your traditional chewy sugar cookie. If you don't have pumpkin In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, pumpkin pie spice, and salt. In a large bowl using a hand mixer, beat butter, sugar, pumpkin. They're the first to go at our annual church bake sale In another bowl, whisk flour and pie spice; gradually beat into creamed mixture.

Pumpkin spiced sugar cookies and royal icing step by step

Cream sugar and butter together. Once the sugar and butter are completely combined, add the remaining wet cookie ingredients..
Sift all of the dry cookie ingredients together in a separate bowl. I suggest whisking the dry ingredients a few times just to be sure it is well combined..
Gradually add the dry ingredients into the wet. Once all of the ingredients are combined it should form a large ball of dough..
Separate the dough into two balls. Wrap the dough balls in plastic wrap and let chill for 30 minutes to an hour..
Once dough has chilled, preheat your oven to 350 degrees. While the oven is preheating. Roll out your dough and cut it into your desired shapes..
Place your cutouts onto a parchment lined cookie sheet (you may also use a silicone mat instead of parchment paper).
Bake your cookies for 7 to 9 minutes or until they just barely start to brown a the base of the cookie. Be extra careful not to overtake them or they may come out dry.
Once you have baked your cookies, you may start to prepare your royal icing. Start by combining all of your ingredients into your mixing bowl..
Give the icing a quick stir to combine just to save you the mess when you have to mix it.
Use a stand mixer with the whisk attachment (or a hand mixer) to whip your icing until you get stiff peaks. This only takes a few minutes however it may take more with a hand mixer..
Depending on how you want to decorate your cookies, you may need to thin your icing. Be extra careful not to over thin or the icing will flow off of the cookie..
If you want to color your icing you may do so but be sure to use a gel paste color or an icing color so as to not alter the consistency of your icing..
Let icing dry for 8 to 12 hours before handling the cookie..

Shape each into a disk; wrap in plastic. These pumpkin spice cookies don't use any actual pumpkin in the recipe, it's pumpkin spice only (which, until very recently was how your PSLs were made, too). It's not necessary here for perfect Fall cookies. With their crackly tops and the cream of tartar in the batter, these pumpkin spice cookies. I have modified my basic sugar cookie recipe to incorporate the wonderful fall flavors of pumpkin spice.