Pumpkin Cookies with Brown Butter Icing

Pumpkin Cookies with Brown Butter Icing

Makes 48

Ingredients

2 ¾ cups flour
4 tsp. Kowalski's Vietnamese Ground Cinnamon
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. allspice
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1 ½ cups sugar
1 ¼ cups Kowalski's Unsalted Butter, at room temperature
3 tbsp. dark molasses
2 tsp. Kowalski's Organic Madagascar Vanilla Extract
4 eggs
1 ¼ cups pumpkin purée
½ cup buttermilk
1 cup chopped walnuts
- Brown Butter Icing (recipe below)
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Directions
  1. Preheat oven to 325°.
  2. In a medium mixing bowl, combine first 6 ingredients (through salt); set aside.
  3. In a large mixing bowl, beat sugar, butter, molasses and vanilla with an electric mixer until creamy.
  4. Add eggs one at a time, beating after each addition.
  5. Beat in pumpkin.
  6. Add dry mixture alternately with buttermilk, beating until thoroughly combined.
  7. Stir in walnuts
  8. Drop rounded tablespoonfuls of dough 2" apart on parchment-lined sheet pans; bake in preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean (12-14 min.)
  9. Remove from oven; let cookies cool completely on sheet pans.
  10. Frost cooled cookies with icing.

BROWN BUTTER ICING: Sift 4 cups confectioners' sugar and ¼ tsp. salt into a large mixing bowl. Add 1 tsp. vanilla; set aside. In a large sauté pan, melt 1 cup Kowalski's Butter over medium heat until solids start to turn golden-brown (about 10 min.), swirling pan to prevent burning. Slowly pour browned butter into sugar while stirring. Stir in 4-5 tbsp. milk by hand until frosting reaches spreading consistency.