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We got home from my mom's and we're meeting my cute 6 month old nephew tonight for dinner . . .ok, his parents are coming too!  I'm taking a dessert, and although I had planned on taking a pumpkin crisp, this afternoon that didn't sound like something I wanted to mess with!  Do you ever get in one of "those" moods?  My mom told me about a pumpkin cookie that tastes VERY close to the pumpkin cookie at City Bites . . .well, that's all she had to say!  We simply L.O.V.E those pumpkin cookies with cream cheese frosting!  While these cookies don't have cream cheese frosting -- they do have cream cheese in the cookie mix . . .so however you get in the cream cheese, it doesn't matter!  These whip up in a flash and I baked them with my large 1/4 cup scoop and baked them for 15 minutes.  It was just perfect!  With a little sprinkle of cinnamon on top of the frosting -- they're good to gobble!

Pumpkin Cream Cheese Cookies with Frosting

1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened

1-1/2 cups packed brown sugar
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 cup canned pumpkin
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 to 1-1/2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder

FROSTING:**

2 cups confectioners' sugar
1/4 cup butter, melted
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 to 3 tablespoons milk
2 cups chopped pecans (if desired)

**this recipe for frosting isn't enough to frost the cookies the way I wanted to do so -- either go easy on the frosting or make additional frosting!

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  1. AnonymousDecember 23, 2010 at 2:40 AM

    Hi Karen,

    I can give you the EXACT recipe for City Bites' pumpkin cookie. I used to know the woman who gave it to the owner a few years back. She used to bring them to PTA meetings before City Bites even started making them!

    One thing: use a cream cheese frosting and NOT the glaze in the recipe. That's the ONLY difference. Enjoy and pass it along!

    http://allrecipes.com//Recipe/iced-pumpkin-cookies/Detail.aspx

    Cindie
    Cindie8696@aol.com

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