Fun With Pumpkin Desserts
When I posted about roasting my massive pumpkin, I asked for recipe suggestions. Superfantastic Lori lived up to her name and gave me a recipe for pumpkin snickerdoodles. I had never in my life thought of doctoring up a snickerdoodle with pureed orange vegetables, but I’ll be darned, it’s lovely.
Being me, though, I can’t just make a recipe as-is. Oh no. I tweaked, adjusted and modified until I got them exactly where I wanted them. Here’s what I came up with.
Pumpkin Snickerdoodles
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| Serves | 40 |
| Prep time | 15 minutes |
| Cook time | 1 hour |
| Total time | 1 hour, 15 minutes |
| Allergy | Egg, Wheat |
| Meal type | Dessert |
| Misc | Child Friendly, Freezable, Pre-preparable |
| Website | A Bitchin' Kitchen |
Ingredients
- 3.75 cups All-purpose flour
- 1.5 teaspoons Baking powder
- .5 teaspoon Salt
- 2.5 teaspoons Cinnamon (ground, divided)
- .5 teaspoon Nutmeg (ground, divided)
- .25 teaspoon Ginger (ground)
- 1 cup Unsalted butter (2 sticks)
- 1.5 cups Sugar (divided)
- .5 cup Dark brown sugar
- 1 cup Pumpkin puree
- 1 Egg
- 2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract
- .25 cup Turbinado sugar
Note
Don't let the dough get warm; return to the fridge between batches, or else it gets sticky and hard to work with.
Directions
| Step 1 | |
| In a medium bowl, mix flour, baking powder, salt, .5 teaspoon of cinnamon and .25 teaspoon of nutmeg. Whisk to blend, and set aside. | |
| Step 2 | |
| In the bowl of your stand mixer, cream together butter, 1 cup sugar and .5 cups brown sugar until well combined, scraping the sides of the bowl. Add pumpkin. Add egg and vanilla until combined. Do not overmix. | |
| Step 3 | |
| Gradually add the dry ingredients until combined. Refrigerate dough for at least one hour, until firm. | |
| Step 4 | |
| Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line baking sheets with parchment or silicone liners. | |
| Step 5 | |
| In a small bowl, mix together the remaining .5 cup sugar, 2 teaspoons cinnamon, .25 teaspoons nutmeg, ground ginger and allspice. You'll roll the dough balls in this mixture. | |
| Step 6 | |
| Using a scoop or spoon, measure out golf balls of dough. Roll in your hands, "like Play-Doh" as the Assistant describes it. Once the balls are smooth, roll them in the sugar mixture. Place two inches apart on the cookie sheet. | |
| Step 7 | |
| Using the flat bottom of a glass, press the dough balls into little pancakes. Sprinkle with turbinado sugar. | |
| Step 8 | |
| Bake for 10-12 minutes. Cool on sheet for 5 minutes, and then finish cooling on a wire rack. | |
Results
“I could eat about 200 of these!” the Tiny Kitchen Assistant declared. Yet he graciously and generously packed a bag of them to deliver to a friend’s mom. “It’s her birthday. I want to do something nice for her!”
The husband liked them, but we’re running perilously close to pumpkin overload at our house. I think he’d like them much better in January when we’re less inundated with pumpkin and spice.
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