Frosted Pumpkin Chocolate-Pecan Cookies

Our church organized a cooking group and let me be in charge of it. I've never been in a cooking group before. It's all new to me but several people joined the group and we had our very first meeting last night. It was a lot of fun. Each of us brought something with pumpkin or apple in it and wow, I got some great pumpkin recipes (most people brought pumpkin dishes) to share with you this fall.

But today, I will share the recipe that I made for the meeting last night. It's called "Frosted Pumpkin Chocolate-Pecan Cookies". I know it's a long name. It's because I added my favorites into the plain pumpkin cookie recipe I had. And it turned out very good! The pecans and the chocolate chips made the cookies very chewy and sweet. The cookies are very soft, not crunchy at all - my husband called it a mini pumpkin cake because of the texture - He also said the frosting made it even better.

Frosted Pumpkin Chocolate-Pecan Cookies

Printable version

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cups packed brown sugar

1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened

1/2 cup shortening

1 cup canned pumpkin

1 egg

2 1/3 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1 cup semisweet chocolate chips

2 cups chopped pecans

Spiced frosting (below)

Directions:

Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Beat brown sugar, butter and shortening in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed, or mix with spoon. Stir in pumpkin and eggs. Stir in flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Stir in chocolate chips and pecans.

Drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls about 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheet. Flatten slightly. Bake 12-15 minutes or until no indentation remains when touched lghtly in center. Remove from cookie sheet to wire rack. Cool completely. Frost with spiced frosting and place a pecan on top of frosting of each cookie.

Spiced Frosting-

3 cups powdered sugar

1/4 cup butter or margarine, softened

1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon

3-4 tablespoons milk

Mix all ingredients until smooth and spreadable.

  Enjoy!