Easy Pumpkin Cheesecake Cookies
Easy and soft pumpkin cake mix cookies are topped with a creamy cheesecake frosting for the ultimate pumpkin cookie!
Prep Time15 minutes mins
Cook Time30 minutes mins
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Total Time45 minutes mins
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Servings: 14 cookies
Pumpkin Cookies
- 1 box yellow cake mix
- 1 Tablespoon all purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
- 15 ounces pumpkin puree
- ½ cup butter {softened}
Cheesecake Frosting
- 16 ounces cream cheese {softened}
- 7 ounces marshmallow fluff
- 2 cups powdered sugar
Pumpkin Cookies
In a medium bowl combine the yellow cake mix, all purpose flour and pumpkin pie spice. Whisk to combine the dry ingredients.
Add the pumpkin puree and softened butter to the dry ingredients and mix using a hand held {or stand mixer} until you have a thick dough.
Use a ¼ measuring cup {or large cookie scoop} to measure out dough. Lightly dust your hands with flour and form each dough mound into a large disc. Place 6 onto a silicone mat {or parchment} lined baking sheet. Bake for 9-11 minutes or until set. Remove from the oven and allow the cookies to cool completely on the baking sheet. Continue until all of the dough is baked.
Assembly
Once the cookies are completely cooled, add frosting to the piping {or zipper} bag and cut a large triangle from the end {or corner}. Pipe a hearty amount of cheesecake frosting to the top of each cookie, starting on the outside of each cookie and working to the middle. Continue until all of the cookies are frosted.
Once all of the cookies are frosted, go back and sprinkle the top with a small amount of cinnamon.
Store leftovers in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 4 days. Cookies can also be frozen for up to 3 months.
- Use room temperature ingredients. Doing so will ensure that all of the ingredients mix together well.
- Lightly flour your hands before forming the cookies into discs. The cookie dough is a bit sticky and this will help so much.
- Make sure the cookies are totally cooled before adding the tangy cream cheese frosting. If the cookies are even slightly warm then they will melt the frosting.
Variations/Additions
- Chocolate chips! Semi-sweet, milk chocolate or white chocolate chips would all be delicious in this soft pumpkin cookie.
- Nuts! Adding chopped pecans or walnuts to this cookie would give it both great flavor and crunch.
- Dried Fruit! Raisins and cranberries would both be great add-in options for this cookie because they pair perfectly with pumpkin.
- Graham Cracker Crumbs! Sprinkle the top of the finished cookies with graham crackers.
- Cinnamon Sugar: A bit of cinnamon sugar on top of each cookie or giving each unbaked cookie a cinnamon sugar coating would also be fabulous.
Serving: 1cookie | Calories: 431kcal | Carbohydrates: 64g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 19g | Saturated Fat: 11g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 5g | Trans Fat: 0.4g | Cholesterol: 50mg | Sodium: 425mg | Potassium: 127mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 44g | Vitamin A: 5366IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 121mg | Iron: 1mg