Buckle up, kiddos, because tonight’s baking extravaganza was full of autumn awesomeness.
Pumpkin spice cookies!
I blogged about these cookies back in October last year, but since I apparently had a camera from the 1950s at that point, I figured I should feature the cookies on the ol’ blog again with a much prettier spread.
Plus, I know many of you likely didn’t see that post since I posted it during my first month of blogging and trust me, these cookies deserve some extra attention.
You guys know how much I adore easy recipes (flourless peanut butter cookies!), and these cookies take the cake for being the absolute easiest cookies to make in the world.
All you need are two ingredients:
Mix the two ingredients together (or simply stir them together using a little elbow grease) until the pumpkin and cake mix are sufficiently combined.
The cookie dough will be really thick and completely irresistible. There are no raw eggs in this mix, so feel free to go to town on the dough. I know I did.
Place spoonfuls of the dough on a cookie sheet sprayed with cooking spray (or on a Silpat because these things rock!) and bake at 350 degrees for 10 – 12 minutes.
The cookies are done when they feel slightly firm to the touch.
Allow the cookies to cool and enjoy as is… 
… Or allow the cookies to cool and top ‘em with cream cheese icing! :D
I then dusted the cookies with a sprinkle of pumpkin pie spice.
The only thing better than how easy these cookies are to make is the end result.
Enjoy!
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Thanks for this recipe!! I made them this week and added mini chocolate chips to a batch of them. Thanks for sharing, Julie! If I can get them out of my house without my husband noticing, I’m going to share with my co-workers. 🙂
Just made a big batch of these for the fiance’s work crew, and also a batch for our friend for her birthday. They are a hit! Thanks for the great idea!
Great recipe! So quick and simple…and my dog loved the batter too! Shhh…don’t tell 🙂
Do you think this recipe would work with a boxed brownie mix?
I made these! They are so good! It’s like a bit of fall in every bite!
OMG! I normally make brownies with a can of pumpkin mixed with chocolate cake mix (So moist and yummy! My husband can’t even tell its pumpkin and he hates anyhing healthy lol!) but this sounds even better! Will for sure have to try this ASAP!
My boyfriend loves pumpkin and I made these for him over the weekend. I turned my back for a minute to wipe the counter down and half the pan was gone and I hadn’t even had one yet! He’s going to try making them for me now since he ate so many in one sitting and I barely got to have any.
Can you tell me how you store the extras? I made these for my family and my kids LOVED them!! but we have many leftover…I put them in a ziploc bag on the counter and this morning they were gooey. Wondering if I should of put them in the fridge OR not sealed the baggie. HMMM
We just made 3 batches to take to our offices tomorrow and we added peanut butter chips to one. Unreal and so simple.
I found the pumpkin and spice cake on a website this summer but for pumpkin spice muffins! So good and really good for you!
looks so yummy.. i think the frosting at the end would suck me right into eating them.
I made these last night for a potluck in my office, everyone is currently raving about them…but I don’t know if I want to admit how EASY they are =)
I didn’t get to try them because I have Celiacs and I didn’t use GF cake mix; it was $$ and I was feeling too lazy last night to make my own cake mix from scratch.
I will let everyone know how they turn out with either GF cake mix or my DIY cake mix.
Thanks for yet another AWESOME recipe!
so glad to hear it!!
What type of recipe did you use for the cream cheese frosting and what is the calorie count?
Thank you !
I’ll bet these would be great with white chips in them! Too bad I didn’t think of that before I made them.
Greetings!
TY for sharing. These sounds wonderful!
I plan to make them for my party this weekend.
What do you think their shelf life is?
Freezer friendly?
TiA 🙂
I have made these for years, but we add a bag of chocolate chips to ours. They are sooooo good! Can’t wait to try them with cream cheese icing!
What size can of pumpkin? Libby’s comes in 2 sizes? thanks
I made these today, without the icing for some lower cal treats – they were delicious. I could not stop eating the dough as I baked! It made lots so I froze some for another time (hopefully it freezes well). Thanks for the recipe.
These cookies are terrible! No taste! Mine looked exactly like the pictures but, ugh!
decided to make the pumpkin cookies they look so delish so they are the winners this year for a new recipe.
I guess I better pay more attention to what I’m saying and saying too. Wrong email earlier. OOOPSSS!!!!!!!!!
I found that many people do not know what to do with canned pumpkin. I run a food pantry and we have lots of canned pumpkin. So today I am taking in a batch of these w/the recipie.
Maybe all that donated pumpkin will fly off the shelf!
Fun and easy!! My kind of thing.
I just made these with a friend over the weekend. They came out so good I went to the store and bought enough stuff to make another batch for a party that night. When I told my mom about them, she wants to make them this weekend. I think you’ve started a trend 😉
I’ve made something similar to these but they were muffins with 1 can of pumpkin and 1 box of devils food cake mix. Put in 12-cup muffin tin and bake at 400 for 20 minutes. Yum!
I guess I’m a little behind on this post, but I was wondering what the texture of these cookies is like? It seems like this recipe is made more for muffins since it’s made with cake mix, so I was wondering if the cookies come out ‘cookie-like’ or soft and bread-y like muffins. Want to know so I can make some this weekend! :):)
They’re muffin-like, but so good. I like to put a dollop of whipped cream on them with an extra sprinkle of pumpkin pie spice
can you use a different flavor of cake mix for the above cookies – can’t find the Spice cake in Ottawa. So can we use a Duncan Heins super moist vanilla than add the pumpkin puree and pumpkin season spices? If so can you tell me what the spices are?
thank you,
I checked the Metro in Ottawa too and no such luck. After much debating in the aisle haha, I bought the carrot cake mix, and just added a little more pumpkin pie spice/cinnamon to the batter. They still taste ABSOLUTELY delicious, no ‘carrot’ taste just sometimes a little crunch of a piece of carrot haha. I feel like using vanilla mix wouldn’t achieve as much spice flavour..? But I’m not sure.
Hope this helps!
Alexa
Susie:
I just did exactly what you suggested since I couldn’t find the spice cake here either. I added the spices from this pie recipe: http://southernfood.about.com/od/pumpkinpies/r/bl21016d.htm
The cookies came out nice but I’m not sure about the required firmness. Seems a little more like mini-muffins than cookies.
Make your own spice cake. You just need a full box of yellow cake mix, 1 t cinnamon, 1/2 t allspice and 1/2 t nutmeg.