Jack-o'-lantern Cookies

Name: Jack-o'-lantern Cookies
Yield: 4 dozen
Ingredients: 3 ½ cups flour; 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder; 1 ½ teaspoons baking soda; 1 ½ teaspoons salt; 2 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon; 1 ¼ teaspoons ground ginger; ¾ teaspoon ground nutmeg; 1 ½ sticks (6 oz.) unsalted butter; 2 ¼ cups (packed) light brown sugar; 2 eggs; 1 (15 oz.) can pure pumpkin puree; ½ cup evaporated milk; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 24 large marshmallows, halved; 6 ounces cream cheese; 4 tablespoons unsalted butter; 4 ½ to 5 cups confectioners' sugar; Orange food coloring; 1 tube black icing; 1 tube green icing

3 Ratings
3 Reviews

Recipe by MyRecipes October 2006

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Recipe Summary

Yield:

4 dozen

Nutrition Info

Directions

Step 1
Preheat oven to 375°F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment.

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Step 2
Make dough: Whisk together first 7 ingredients. In a separate bowl, cream butter and brown sugar until pale; beat in eggs. Mix in pumpkin, evaporated milk and vanilla, followed by flour mixture gradually.
Step 3
Put some dough in a large plastic bag; snip a corner. Pipe 2 1/2-inch rounds about 1/2-inch thick onto sheets. Continue with rest of dough. Bake, rotating halfway through, until tops spring back when touched, about 12 minutes. Top each with a half marshmallow; bake for 1 1/2 minutes. Transfer, on parchment, to racks; cool.
Step 4
Make icing: Using an electric mixer, beat cream cheese and butter until smooth. Add confectioners' sugar a little at a time until icing is thick but spreadable. Add food coloring.
Step 5
Gently frost cookies over marshmallow. Let set for 20 minutes. Pipe icing faces and stems onto each cookie.

Nutrition Facts

Per Serving:

187 calories; fat 6g; saturated fat 3g; protein 2g; carbohydrates 33g; fiber 1g; cholesterol 24mg; sodium 147mg.

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MyRecipes Member

01/23/2023

Adding to the chorus to say that this is a time consuming recipe. However, that's the only negative. The cookies are phenomenal tasting, my sister and I tag teamed this recipe last year and took the cookies to our jobs and we got tons of street (kitchen?) cred for them. My only regret making these is that they went way too fast, they were so good I wish I had more to enjoy.

I suppose if you want to save a little time, don't do the pumpkin faces, just do the rest. I am no professional decorator so doing the faces took me quite awhile, and after spending the time doing the rest of the cookies I was so stressed about messing up the faces and them not being presentable.

If you have the time, I highly recommend this recipe.

SWGASweetie

10/27/2009

Time consuming? Yes, but what took the time was piping on the faces on the pumpkins. Dropping the ingredients into the bowl wasn't the hard part. The cookies came out nice and soft with a perfect balance of spices. The marshmallow made for a nice surprise with that first bite and the cream cheese frosting gave it that little bit of extra sweet for a nice finish. I would definitely make these again, but not as an every-day cookie. Recipe was good as-it, wouldn't (and didn't!) change a thing!

msjake

10/19/2009

Far too many ingredients for a busy woman!! Much easier recipes out there!

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