Pumpkin Cookies with Bourbon Icing

This makes a soft cookie.

Pumpkin Cookies

• 2 sticks butter
• 3 cups sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 large can pumpkin
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 5 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 2 teaspoons nutmeg
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt

1. Cream butter and sugar together.
2. Add eggs and stir well.
3. Add pumpkin and stir.
4. Add cinnamon, nutmeg, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.  Stir well.
5. Add flour a little at time, stirring to mix well.
6. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
7. On a cookie sheet lined with a silicone cookie sheet liner, drop dough onto the sheet, using a medium sized cookie dough scoop.
8. Bake 12-16 minutes.
9. Let cool one minute before removing from the sheet and place on rack to finish cooling.
10. Makes approximately 60 medium sized cookies.

Bourbon Frosting

• 2 sticks butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 teaspoon bourbon
• 1 2lb. bag confectioner’s sugar

1. Cream butter and confectioner’s sugar.
2. Add vanilla and bourbon.
3. Stir until smooth.
4. Frost cookies when they are completely cooled.
5. Enjoy.

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