Recipe: Yummy Pumpkin spiced sugar cookies and royal icing

Pumpkin spiced sugar cookies and royal icing. These Pumpkin Spice Sugar Cookies from Sally's Cookie Addiction are the best cookies for fall! So fun to make, and they look amazing! The trick to making the decorative designs is to use Royal Icing.

They are easily and beautifully decorated with homemade Royal Icing to give the perfect dimensional You can add two teaspoons of pumpkin spice to your cookie dough if you want them to be pumpkin spice sugar cookies. I have modified my basic sugar cookie recipe to incorporate the wonderful fall flavors of pumpkin spice. In this video I am going to make pumpkin spice roll out cookies and decorate simple pumpkins with royal icing. You can have Pumpkin spiced sugar cookies and royal icing using 16 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Pumpkin spiced sugar cookies and royal icing

1. It's of For cookies.
2. You need 2 1/4 cups of flour sifted.
3. It's 3/4 cup of sugar.
4. Prepare 3/4 cup of butter room temperature.
5. You need 1 of large egg.
6. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder.
7. It's 1/4 teaspoon of salt.
8. You need 1 1/4 teaspoon of vanilla.
9. You need 1 teaspoon of pumpkin spice flavoring.
10. It's 1 1/2 teaspoons of cinnamon.
11. You need 1/2 teaspoon of nutmeg.
12. It's 1 of + tablespoons milk(as needed).
13. It's of For royal icing.
14. It's 3 tablespoons of meringue powder.
15. Prepare 4 cups of powdered sugar.
16. It's 5 tablespoons of water plus more for thinning.

Sweet, crackle-topped, sugar-coated pumpkin spice cookies (made without actual pumpkin)! These pumpkin spice cookies don't use any actual pumpkin in the recipe, it's pumpkin spice only (which, until very recently was how your PSLs were made, too). Sugar cookies are great because they are so versatile. Using different cookie cutters and icing techniques the possibilities of what you can create are endless.

Pumpkin spiced sugar cookies and royal icing instructions

1. Cream sugar and butter together. Once the sugar and butter are completely combined, add the remaining wet cookie ingredients..
2. Sift all of the dry cookie ingredients together in a separate bowl. I suggest whisking the dry ingredients a few times just to be sure it is well combined..
3. Gradually add the dry ingredients into the wet. Once all of the ingredients are combined it should form a large ball of dough..
4. Separate the dough into two balls. Wrap the dough balls in plastic wrap and let chill for 30 minutes to an hour..
5. Once dough has chilled, preheat your oven to 350 degrees. While the oven is preheating. Roll out your dough and cut it into your desired shapes..
6. Place your cutouts onto a parchment lined cookie sheet (you may also use a silicone mat instead of parchment paper).
7. Bake your cookies for 7 to 9 minutes or until they just barely start to brown a the base of the cookie. Be extra careful not to overtake them or they may come out dry.
8. Once you have baked your cookies, you may start to prepare your royal icing. Start by combining all of your ingredients into your mixing bowl..
9. Give the icing a quick stir to combine just to save you the mess when you have to mix it.
10. Use a stand mixer with the whisk attachment (or a hand mixer) to whip your icing until you get stiff peaks. This only takes a few minutes however it may take more with a hand mixer..
11. Depending on how you want to decorate your cookies, you may need to thin your icing. Be extra careful not to over thin or the icing will flow off of the cookie..
12. If you want to color your icing you may do so but be sure to use a gel paste color or an icing color so as to not alter the consistency of your icing..
13. Let icing dry for 8 to 12 hours before handling the cookie..

Allowing sugar cookies to work for every occasion. If a homemade pumpkin pie and a soft sugar cookie had little cookies of their own, well, let these speak for themselves. I made these cookies according to the directions. The only change was I added an extra tablespoon of pumpkin pie spice and I refrigerated the dough longer than required. This cookie recipe creates soft, chewy, lightly spicy glazed Pumpkin Sugar Cookies that are perfect for Fall!