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Pumpkin Cookies Recipe with Maple Buttercream Frosting

Robyn Stone

Updated Oct 19, 2023

Pumpkin Cookies with Maple Frosting Recipe are such soft, delicious cookies and perfect for fall! A simple, flavorful cookie recipe topped with creamy maple buttercream frosting!

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These Pumpkin Cookies are simply delicious! Full of pumpkin goodness, they are the perfect cookies for a fall day! And topped with the decadent and creamy Maple Buttercream Frosting, they make any day a little bit brighter! They are so moist, soft and delicious, and they taste just like fall!

Why We Love This Recipe

Full of Fall Flavors – Pumpkin, Pumpkin Pie Spice, Brown Sugar, and Maple flavors all shine in this delicious cookie.

A Simple Recipe – This cookie recipe includes ingredients that we all know and love for this time of year. You may already have them in your pantry or fridge.

Quick and Easy. These cookies are really quick and easy to make. No cookie cutters or piping bags are involved in these tasty treats!

How to Make Pumpkin Cookies with Maple Buttercream Frosting

How to Make Pumpkin Cookies Step by Step Instructions

Prep. Preheat oven to 350º F. Line baking sheets with parchment paper and set aside.
Cream together the wet ingredients. To make them, I cream together the butter and sugars with my electric mixer until the butter and sugar mixture becomes light and fluffy. This takes about 3 minutes. Then, I mix in the pumpkin puree , an egg, and my vanilla extract . For the pumpkin puree, I love to use my own homemade pumpkin puree , but you can easily substitute it with store-bought.
Whisk together dry ingredients. In another bowl, I whisk together my dry ingredients of flour, baking soda, pumpkin pie spice , and salt.
Mix dry and wet ingredients. Slowly add dry ingredients into the pumpkin mixture until just combined.
Drop and bake. Use a tablespoon cookie scoop and drop cookie dough onto the prepared baking sheets. Bake for 10-12 minutes until set but not overbaked.
Cool and frost. Then, I remove the cookies from the parchment paper to a wire cooling rack to cool completely before frosting them with my Maple Buttercream Frosting .

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How to Make Maple Buttercream Frosting Step by Step Instructions

I’ve shared my recipe for this buttercream frosting previously, but I’m sharing the scaled down recipe that works perfectly for this cookie recipe!

Cream together the butter, confectioner’s sugar and maple syrup until light and fluffy. Add heavy cream a tablespoon at a time, beating well after each, until the maple frosting is well combined and fluffy.

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More Favorite Cookies

The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies

Snickerdoodles

Chewy Sugar Cookies

Peanut Butter Cookies

No Bake Cookies

Here’s my Pumpkin Cookies Recipe with Maple Buttercream Frosting. I hope you love them as much as we do.

Equipment

Baking Sheet
Parchment Paper
Hand Mixer
Whisk (Balloon)
Mixing Bowl
Cookie Scoop (Medium)
Wire Rack

Ingredients

▢ 1 cup ( 226 g ) butter , softened
▢ 1/4 cup ( 50 g ) granulated sugar
▢ 3/4 cup ( 160 g ) light brown sugar , packed
▢ 1 cup ( 245 g ) pumpkin puree , homemade or store-bought
▢ 1 large ( 50 g ) egg
▢ 1 1/2 teaspoons ( 8 g ) vanilla extract
▢ 2 cups ( 240 g ) all-purpose flour
▢ 1 teaspoon ( 6 g ) baking soda
▢ 1 1/2 teaspoon ( 3 g ) pumpkin pie spice
▢ 1/2 teaspoon ( 1 g ) kosher salt

Maple Buttercream Frosting Recipe

▢ 1/2 cup ( 113 g ) butter , softened
▢ 2 cups ( 227 g ) confectioners’ sugar
▢ 2 teaspoons ( 13 g ) maple syrup
▢ 2 tablespoons ( 28 g ) heavy cream

Instructions

Prep. Preheat oven 350ºF. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
Cream together the wet ingredients. Cream together the butter and sugars until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Beat in the pumpkin puree, egg, and the vanilla extract.
Whisk together the dry ingredients. Whisk together the flour, baking soda, pumpkin pie spice, and salt in a medium bowl.
Mix the dry into the wet ingredients. Slowly mix the dry ingredients into the pumpkin puree mixture until combined.
Drop and bake. Drop cookie dough by the tablespoon full onto the prepared baking sheet and bake for about 10 minutes, until set but not overbaked.
Cool, frost and serve. Remove the cookies from the oven and transfer to a wire rack for cooling completely. Once cooled, frost with Maple Frosting (recipe below).

Maple Buttercream Frosting Recipe:

Cream together the butter, confectioner’s sugar and maple syrup until light and fluffy. Add heavy cream a tablespoon at a time, beating well after each, until the maple frosting is well combined and fluffy.

Notes

How to Store and Freeze

Make Ahead Instructions

Nutrition

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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Enjoy! Robyn xo

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