Recipe: Perfect Iced Pumpkin Cookies

Iced Pumpkin Cookies.

You can have Iced Pumpkin Cookies using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Iced Pumpkin Cookies

1. Prepare 4 cup of all-purpose flour.
2. You need 1 cup of Rolled Oats.
3. You need 1 1/2 tsp of baking soda.
4. It's 2 tsp of ground cinnamon.
5. Prepare 1 tsp of salt.
6. Prepare 1 1/2 cup of Vegetable shortening.
7. You need 1 cup of granulated sugar.
8. It's 1 cup of packed light brown sugar.
9. You need 1 of large egg.
10. Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
11. It's 1 can of pumpkin (15 oz.).

Iced Pumpkin Cookies instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350°F..
2. Combine flour, oats, baking soda, cinnamon and salt..
3. In a large bowl, cream together the vegetable shortening and both sugars. Beat in the egg and vanilla extract. Beat in the pumpkin. Gradually blend in the dry ingredients..
4. Drop the dough by spoonfuls 2 inches apart onto ungreased baking sheets..
5. Bake for 18 to 20 minutes, until lightly colored. Transfer to wire racks to cool fully before icing (if desired)..
6. To make the vanilla icing all I did was put a 1/2 cup of powdered sugar in a bowl with a tiny amount of vanilla and added a teaspoon or water at a time until the right consistency. If too watery add more powdered sugar, or more water if too thick..