Recipe by The Baker's Daughter

Pumpkin Cake Bites with Maple Frosting

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Dairy Dairy
Easy Easy
16 Servings
Allergens
22 Minutes
Diets

You cannot quite miss the plethora of pumpkins available at your local fruit market these days. 

Ingredients

Cookies

  • 3/4 cup butter or oil

  • 2 eggs

  • 2 cups packed light brown sugar

  • 1 (15-ounce) can pumpkin puree (not pumpkin pie filling!)

  • 1 teaspoon Gefen Vanilla Extract

Frosting

  • 4 tablespoons butter or margarine

  • 1 and 3/4 cups confectioner’s sugar

  • 2 tablespoons milk (or substitute)

  • 2 teaspoons maple extract

Directions

For the Cupcakes

1.

Whisk together first six ingredients in a bowl. In the bowl of a mixer, beat butter and sugar until fully blended. Mix in eggs, add pumpkin and vanilla and mix until well combined. Add flour mixture and mix until just fully incorporated.

2.

Chill batter for a minimum of half an hour.

3.

Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. Scoop dough with small cookie scoop onto lined cookie sheets. Bake for 12 minutes, allow to cool and frost with maple frosting.

For the Cupcakes

Yields 8 dozen cookies

For the Frosting

1.

Heat butter in a small saucepan until it just begins to darken. 

2.

Remove from heat and add remaining ingredients.  Stir well so there are no lumps.  Dip cookies in frosting before it cools and thickens.

Pumpkin Cake Bites with Maple Frosting

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