Buttercream Frosting

I needed a frosting recipe for a dessert I was making for a party and I found this one. Its a lot of frosting but we made cup cakes and sugar cookies and I am never sure how much of anything I need. So I always make to much.

Buttercream Frosting

1 cup Butter, softened

8 cups Powdered Sugar

1/2 cup Milk

2 tsp Vanilla

In a mixing bowl, cream butter. Beat in sugar and vanilla. Add milk until frosting reaches desired consistency. 

Recipe Source: allrecipes.com

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies II

These are not cakey like the other cookies I posted the other day. These are like regular soft chocolate chip cookies. They are delicious. I also made a frosting to go with these. The frosting on these has more of a carmely flavor. The cookies are good with it but also very delicious without.

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies 

Cream together:
1/2 cup white sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup butter, softened

Then add:
1 cup pumpkin
1 tsp vanilla
1 egg

Sift together dry ingredients then add to above wet mixture.
2 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp salt
Add 1 cup milk chocolate chips.

The dough we be very wet still. Bake cookies at 350 degrees for 12 minutes depending how large your cookies are. Cook on parchment paper or a silicone mat. Allow to cool then frost.

Brown Sugar Icing

Icing:
3 T butter
1/2 c. brown sugar
1/4 c. milk
2 c. powdered sugar

Icing:

In saucepan, heat butter and brown sugar over medium to med-high heat until bubbling and thick. Cool 10 minutes. Stir in 1/4 cup milk. Add powdered sugar and beat until smooth.

Recipe Source: thegirlwhoateeverything.blogspot.com

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

I decided to brave the world of pumpkin treats. I haven't ever made anything with pumpkin in it. Unlike my fear of cooking with fresh apples, I was more confident in taking on the pumpkin. I have tried 2 different pumpkin cookie recipes. I am going to post both of them because they are very different and both good in their own ways. This particular recipe is the one I tried first. They are more cake like and they were very good. I also made frosting to go on them because they were so much like cake I figured I would try them with frosting and it was ok. The frosting itself was good, I just am not too sure about it on the cookies. So if nothing else I have a good cream cheese frosting recipe now.

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

1 cup Canned Pumpkin

1/2 cup White Sugar

1/2 cup Brown Sugar

1/2 cup Vegetable Oil

1 Egg

2 cups Flour

2 tsp Baking Powder

1 1/2 tsp Cinnamon

1/4 tsp Nutmeg

1/2 tsp Salt

1 tsp Baking Soda

1 Tbsp Vanilla

4 drops Red Food Coloring

2 cups Semisweet Chocolate Chips

Combine pumpkin, sugars, vegetable oil, vanilla, egg and food coloring. In a separate bowl, stir together flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt. Dissolve the baking soda with the milk and stir in. Add the flour mixture to the pumpkin mixture and mix well. Add chocolate chips.

Drop by the spoonful onto a lined cookie sheet. Bake at 365 degrees for 12 minutes. 

Cream Cheese Frosting

8-ounce package cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
2 1/2 cups sifted confectioners’ sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Combine the cream cheese and butter in a medium bowl with an electric mixer until smooth. Add the sugar and mix at low speed until combined. Stir in the vanilla and mix again. Spread on cooled cookies.

Cookie Source(I changed the recipe a bit): www.allrecipes.com

Frosting Source: www.melskitchencafe.com