Mrs. Fields Pumpkin Spice Cookies

Submitted by superblondieno2

"We have a Mrs. Field's cookie book that I love to try new recipes out of. I found pumpkin on sale and I had been itching to try this recipe, so I made it. They are a tasty little cookie, good with Chai tea! Enjoy!"

 

• Ready In: 40mins
• Ingredients: 12
• Yields: 60 small cookies
• Serves: 60

ingredients

• 2 1⁄2 cups flour
• 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
• 1 cup dark brown sugar, packed (light is okay too)
• 1⁄2 cup white sugar
• 3⁄4 cup butter, softened
• 1 egg
• 1 cup pumpkin (canned or freshly cooked)
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 1 cup raisins
• 1⁄2 cup walnuts, chopped

directions

1. Preheat oven to 300°F.
2. Combine flour, soda, salt, and pumpkin pie spice in a medium bowl. Mix well with a wire whisk and set aside.
3. In a large bowl, blend sugars with an electric mixer. Add the butter and beat to form a grainy mixture. Then add egg, pumpkin and vanilla. Beat at medium speed until light and fluffy.
4. Add the flour mixture, raisins and walnuts. Blend at low speed until combined. DO NOT OVERMIX.
5. Drop by rounded teaspoons onto ungreased cookie sheet.
6. Bake about 20 minutes or until cookies are slightly brown around the edges.

Reviews

[barbararud]

The butter content in this recipe is WRONG! I make this every year and it should be 3/4 cup of softened butter.

 

[eneerglir]

I follow this recipe and didn't make any changes. It was a very dry cookie. After one batch I decided to put the rest of it in a loaf pan. It was an ok bread but a very dry cookie. I checked the ratings before I made this recipe and saw she had changed the butter amount so I thought it would be ok. I was wrong.

 

[Bobbie S.]

What wonderful flavor these cookies have -- and they are very easy to make. I used my cookie scoop and I think it's more like 2 tablespoons. I got 36 cookies. I saw where one reviewer suggested adding more butter and I made a note to myself to do that -- but wouldn't ya know, once I got into the recipe, I forgot to check my notes!!!! I agree that the cookies might be slightly on the dry side -- but I hesitate to add that much additional butter because I like how the cookie holds its shape when placed on the pan -- it's still basically that shape when it's done baking. I might add an extra 2 T. of butter, but I would be fearful in adding an entire 1/2 cup more. I also found that in my oven they baked in 17 minutes. Very delicious cookies.

 

[kateron3boys]

I made these as written, even though I thought the butter amount seemed low. They were okay, good flavor, but the texture was a little dry. I googled the recipe and found it listed elsewhere with 3/4 cup butter, not 1/4 cup. Ahhh...that makes sense. Not sure if this is a typo, or just trying to make the recipe less fattening. I'll try the higher butter amount tomorrow and see what happens.

 

[relientk4eva57]

These cookies were very yummy! I would definately make them again