Pumpkin Pie Cookies recipe

A delicious lightly spiced cookie – soft inside but with a sugary crunch on the outside! Adapted from a recipe shown in The Guardian Feast magazine.

Pumpkin Pie Cookies recipe

Ingredients

For the recipe:
  • 340g Plain flour
  • 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
  • 1 tsp cream of tartar
  • 250g unsalted butter
  • 300g caster sugar
  • a good pinch sea salt flakes
  • 1 tsp Steenbergs organic Fairtrade vanilla extract
  • 1 egg, lightly beaten
  • 2 tsp Steenbergs organic Pumpkin pie spice mix
  • 2 tbsp Cinnamon sugar (or ground cinnamon mixed with Demerara sugar)

A delicious lightly spiced cookie – soft inside but with a sugary crunch on the outside!

Adapted from a recipe shown in The Guardian Feast magazine.

Method

01
To make the biscuit dough, mix the butter, sugar and salt in a free-standing mixer for 10 minutes until light and fluffy.
02
Add the vanilla extract and egg at intervals until fully combined.
03
Then, with the mixer on low-medium speed, add the flour & spice blend a spoonful at a time until fully combined.
04
Form into a dough and place in the fridge for 20 minutes before shaping into walnut sized balls.
05
Preheat the oven to 180C fan. 
06
Place the cinnamon sugar in a small bowl then roll each cookie ball in the sugar before placing on a greased and lined baking sheet. Space a good distance apart as they will spread.
07
Bake for 9-12 minutes depending on how soft you like your cookies.
08
Take out of the oven and leave on the tray for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool. 

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