Spider Web Pumpkin Cookies

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1 cup pumpkin
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon allspice
• 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1 cup chocolate chips, opt
• 6 ounces butter, softened
• 12 ounces confectioners' sugar
• 1 tablespoon orange zest
• 3 tablespoons orange juice

Recipe

• 1 cream butter and sugars until creamy.
• 2 then add pumpkin, eggs and vanilla and mix well.
• 3 next add in flour, baking powder and soda, spices.
• 4 then fold in chocolate chips.
• 5 drop by tablespoons full onto a well greased cookie sheet making sure, with a spoon, it is 4-5 inches in diameter, leaving 2 inches between cookies.
• 6 bake at 350 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes or until firm.
• 7 let cool for 5 minutes on cookie sheet, and then remove and put on a cooling rack to cool completely.
• 8 for frosting cream the butter and sugar.
• 9 next add in orange zest and juice blending well.
• 10 on top of cookies to a spiral of frosting with a pastry bag or a ziplock with corner cut starting in the middle and moving out.
• 11 using a knife, take from middle of cookie and gently pulling frosting out to the side in 4-6 different places.