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Contributed By: jimmy_adams
local storeowner in Wamego, KS

A simple cream cheese frosting complements these cake-like cookies. Fantastic for Halloween parties - or Thanksgiving dessert table.

Ingredients

1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened

3/4 cup Firmly packed brown sugar

3/4 cup Granulated sugar

1 cup Canned pumpkin

1 Egg

1 teaspoon Vanilla

2 1/2 cups Quaker Oats (quick or old fashioned, uncooked)

1 3/4 cups All-purpose flour

1 teaspoon Pumpkin pie spice or ground cinnamon

1 teaspoon Baking soda

1/4 teaspoon Salt (optional)

1 3-oz Pkg cream cheese, softened

1 tablespoon Milk

1/2 teaspoon Vanilla

2 1/2 cups Powdered sugar

Yellow & Red food coloring

Preparation

Heat oven to 350 degrees.

Beat together margarine and sugars until creamy.

Add pumpkin, egg, and vanilla; beat well.

Combine oats, flour, pumpkin pie spice, baking soda and salt; add to above mixture and mix well.

Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet.

Bake 11 to 13 minutes until golden brown.

Cool 1 minute on cookie sheet; remove to wire rack. Cool completely.

For frosting, beat together cream cheese, milk, and vanilla until smooth. Gradually beat in powdered sugar until smooth; tint with food coloring, if desired. Frost top of each cookie. Store in tightly covered container in refrigerator.

Cook's Notes

Recipe makes about 4 dozen cookies. Nutritional info = per frosted cookie (about 4 dozen)

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