Outrageous Pumpkin Cookies with Penuche Frosting

From the time I was a little girl, my mom has been making these pumpkin cookies every fall season. They are so rich and delicious and every bite melts in your mouth, literally, and they just ooze "fall". They are by FAR the most delicious pumpkin cookies I have ever tasted in my life. (Sorry, pumpkin and chocolate chips just don't do it for me...they are almost there). These cookies have a real depth and almost earthiness that you are looking for in fall comfort foods. The cookies themselves are fluffy and light with a cake-like texture. But the frosting is what really makes them outrageous. The frosting is a cooked brown sugar frosting...you just can't describe it...you have to try it! So, do yourself a favor and make these cookies and just melt into the fall season!

Jade and Micah sharing a cookie...a bite for you, a bite for me.

COOKIE INGREDIENTS:

1 cup butter

1/2 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup white sugar

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla

1 cup pumpkin

2 cups flour

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp cinnamon

INSTRUCTIONS:

Cream the butter and sugars together. Beat in eggs and vanilla, and then add the pumpkin followed by the dry ingredients. Bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes.

While still slightly warm, frost with penuche frosting.

FROSTING INGREDIENTS & INSTRUCTIONS:

Combine 6 Tbsp butter and 1 cup brown sugar, boil for 1 minute. Let cool 10 minutes. Beat in 1/2 cup milk or a little more until it’s the right consistency, then beat in 3 to 4 cups powdered sugar. Frost the cooled cookies. And ENJOY them with the ones you love!