Pumpkin Molasses Cookies
submitted by Elise Freeman
1/2 cup butter
1 cup sugar, plus more for rolling
1/2 cup pumpkin
1/4 cup molasses
1 egg
2 1/3 cups of flour
2 tsp. baking soda
2 tsp. cinnamon
2 tsp. ginger
1 tsp. cloves
1/2 tsp. salt
Beat butter in a large bowl until fluffy. Add sugar, pumpkin, molasses, and egg and mix until well combined. Add remaining ingredients and beat until a well-blended batter forms. Refrigerate dough for at least 1 hour. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Fill a bowl with your rolling sugar. Roll tablespoon sized balls of batter in sugar until well coated and place on sheet. The cookies will spread so give them a couple inches of room. Bake 10-12 minutes, or until cookies look cracked.
Pumpkin Squares
submitted by Risa Bakker
1 small can pumpkin
1 2/3 cup sugar
4 eggs
1 cup oil
2 cups flour
1 tsp. salt
2 tsp. baking powder
2 tsp. cinnamon
Frosting:
8 oz cream cheese
1/2 cup butter
4 cups powdered sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
Mix ingredients together. Pour into ungreased sheet cake pan. Bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes. Frost when cooled.
Pumpkin Cake
submitted by Tara Turner
1 pkg yellow cake mix
1 15oz can pumpkin divided; 1 cup for cake, remainder for filling
1/2 cup milk
1/3 cup oil
4 large eggs
1 1/2 tsp. pumpkin spice divided; 1 tsp. for cake, 1/2 tsp. for filling
Combine ingredients and beat as directed on back of cake mix box(30 seconds on low then 2 minutes on medium). Bake cake in 2, 9-inch rounds(grease well or use parchment paper) at 350 for 22-25 minutes. Cool(I even freeze mine for a little while) then carefully cut both rounds in half.
Filling:
8 oz cream cheese, softened
1 cup powdered sugar
8 oz cool whip
1/2 tsp. pumpkin spice and remainder of pumpkin
Mix all ingredients except cool whip until well blended. Fold in cool whip.
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Cream Cheese Wontons
submitted by Linda Atwood
8 oz cream cheese
1/4-1/2 cup mayo
Green onion, chopped
Garlic, minced
Ginger root, chopped(I usually just sprinkle in some ginger seasoing)
Wonton wrappers
Sweet and sour sauce
Mix together cream cheese, mayo, green onion, garlic and ginger. Drop a small portion onto the middle of a wonton wrapper. Place in a mini muffin tin. Bake at 350 for 10 minutes. Serve with sweet and sour sauce.
