OATMEAL PUMPKIN COOKIES
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Fall is in the air, you guys! And pumpkin flavor, too! I always wait for this season because of the pumpkin spice! Today I am sharing a healthy cookie recipe. If you have small kids this easy cookie will make a fabulous yummy and healthy snack!
It has healthy and nutritious ingredients.
The original recipe that I Â found last year had regular all-purpose flour listed.
As my hubby going through a significant change in his life { workouts, proper diet and all that } I made these cookies with oat flour so that he could have some of this goodness too.
I grind some rolled oats using my coffee grinder, but you can easily find oat flour at any grocery store if you make my version. Of course, you can just use old fashioned flour as well!
…Pumpkins…
 Did you know that pumpkins are very nutritious?
Full of antioxidants and vitamins, and extremely high in fiber that is so good for your body!
These cookies may not look very smooth and attractive because the oat has a different consistency than regular flour, but are truly very very tasty.
I made the white cream cheese glaze for the top { I LOVED them on my cookies }, but you can definitely eat them without it too.
 After laying them on a cookie sheet, I used my fork to make them flat.
OATMEAL PUMPKIN COOKIES
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Ingredients
- INGREDIENTS:
- · 2 1/2 cups oat flour
- · 1 teaspoon baking powder
- · 1 teaspoon baking soda
- · 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- · 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- · 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
- · 1/2 teaspoon salt
- · 1/2 cup butter, softened
- · 1 1/2 cups BROWN sugar
- · 1 cup canned pumpkin puree
- · 1 egg
- · 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Cream Cheese frosting:
- · 1/2 cup softened butter
- · 1/2 cup softened cream cheese
- · 2-3 cups powdered sugar
- · 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- · 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
Instructions
- Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, ground cloves, and salt; set aside.
- In a medium bowl, cream together the 1/2 cup of butter and BROWN sugar. Add pumpkin, egg, and 1 teaspoon vanilla to butter mixture, and beat until creamy. Mix in dry ingredients. Drop on cookie sheet by tablespoonful; flatten slightly.
- Bake for 15 to 20 minutes in the preheated oven.
- For the Frosting:
- Cream butter and cream cheese together. Slowly add powdered sugar and mix with an electric mixer until thick and creamy.
- Add vanilla and cinnamon.
- When cookies are cooled-serve it with or without the frosting.
Recipe slightly adapted from: All recipes.com
Oh boy! These cookies are fluffy and soo good! We seriously ate all of them by the next day!
Definite marked on our family favorites list!
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Have a Wonderful week ahead!
Cheers,
Aniko
Aniko,
What perfect timing, I’m looking for good for you, tempting nibbles
for my brother/best friend who is terminally ill and finding eating a chore.
I ground the oats as you suggested and because eating is hard I used a teaspoon
to put the cookie mixture on the tray. It was the perfect size, he ate 4 with his mug
of Fennel tea!
So very grateful for your sharing and being able to get canned pumpkin puree in UK 🙂
Fennel tea? That sounds dreamy with these cookies! Wow. Glad you used this recipe.:-)
Aniko,
Your photographs are wonderful and these cookies look very tasty. I like to make muffins with soaked oats, but I have never tried to make oat flour for cookies. I'm glad to follow you on Tasty Tuesdays!
Thank you.