Old Fashioned Soft Pumpkin Cookies

Enjoy these cookies on a cool Fall night, while sipping hot tea by the fireplace. Or, if you're like me, you can eat these cookies while dying of heat stroke in the dead of 'winter' in Florida !

• Ready In: 25 mins
• Yields: 36 cookies

Ingredients

• 2 1⁄2 cups flour
• 1  teaspoon baking soda
• 1  teaspoon baking powder
• 1  teaspoon cinnamon
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄2 cup butter
• 1 1⁄2 cups sugar
• 1  cup solid pack pumpkin
• 1  large egg
• 1  teaspoon vanilla extract

• GLAZE

• 2  cups powdered sugar
• 3  tablespoons milk
• 1  tablespoon  melted butter
• 1  teaspoon vanilla

Directions

1. Combine flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon in a medium bowl.
2. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar.
3. Add pumpkin, egg, and vanilla; beat until light and creamy.
4. Mix in dry ingredients until well blended.
5. Drop rounded spoonfuls of dough onto greased cookie sheet.
6. Smooth tops of cookies.
7. Bake in preheated 350°F degree oven for 15-20 minutes.
8. Meanwhile, combine glaze ingredients, stirring until smooth and set aside.
9. Cool baked cookies on wire rack.
10. Drizzle glaze over top.
11. For variations, stir any one of the following ingredients into batter: 1 cup raisins, chopped nuts, or rolled oats and/or 1/2 cup crushed pineapple, drained.