These are the best soft and chewy pumpkin snickerdoodles. You will love this soft brown butter pumpkin cinnamon sugar cookie and will become your new favorite Fall pumpkin cookie recipe.
Prep Time25 minutesmins
Cook Time9 minutesmins
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: brown butter pumpkin snickerdoodles, pumpkin snickerdoodles
Servings: 24
Author: Modern Honey® - www.modernhoney.com
Ingredients
1cupButter
1cupBrown Sugar
3/4cupSugar
1/2cupCanned Pure Pumpkin Puree *
2teaspoonsVanilla Extract
1largeEgg Yolk
2 1/4cupsFlour
1/2teaspoonCream of Tartar
1teaspoonBaking Soda
1/2teaspoonSalt
1teaspoonCinnamon (or pumpkin pie spice)
Cinnamon Sugar:
1/4cupSugar
1 1/2TablespoonsCinnamon
Instructions
In a large pot, heat butter over medium low heat until melted. Watch carefully as it begins to change colors from light yellow to a deep golden color. Brown the butter for about 5-7 minutes, do not allow it to become too brown or burn.
Remove from heat and stir in brown sugar and sugar until smooth. Set aside to cool for about 20 minutes. If you want to expedite it, you can cover it and place it in the refrigerator for about 10 minutes. Just don't forget it...or the mixture will harden.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Meanwhile, measure out pumpkin puree. If you want a more pumpkin flavor, use 2/3 cup of pumpkin puree instead of 1/2 cup. Stack several paper towels and place the pumpkin puree on the paper towels, allowing the paper towels to soak up extra moisture.
Once the butter mixture has cooled to room temperature, stir in pumpkin puree, vanilla extract, and egg yolk until combined.
Fold in flour, cream of tartar, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon.
In a small bowl, combine the 1/4 cup of sugar and 1 1/2 Tablespoons of cinnamon.
Roll the cookie dough into balls. Generously coat each ball in the cinnamon sugar mixture. Place on a light colored, parchement paper lined baking sheet.
Bake at 350 degrees for about 9 minutes. Do not overbake these cookies as they are meant to be soft and chewy.
Notes
Can I add more pumpkin for more pumpkin flavor?Since we only use 1/2 cup of pumpkin puree, these cookies do have a light pumpkin flavor. If you want a little more pumpkin flavor, you may increase the pumpkin puree to 2/3 cupCan I add pumpkin pie spice instead of just cinnamon?This recipe calls for cinnamon with an option of using pumpkin pie spice. Pumpkin Pie spice is generally made with cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cloves, allspice so it definitely adds more warm spice flavor.