Pumpkin spiced sugar cookies and royal icing. Fall is the perfect time to bake up a batch of Pumpkin Spiced Cut-Out Cookies with Maple Royal Icing. Serve them plain or decorate them using royal icing flavored with real maple syrup. The pumpkin spice and maple flavors pair beautifully together to create a really tasty cookie and the decorations make the cookies pretty enough to serve at a party. Pumpkin spiced sugar cookies and royal icing instructions. Once the sugar and butter are completely combined, add the remaining wet cookie ingredients.

Sift all of the dry cookie ingredients together in a separate bowl. I suggest whisking the dry ingredients a few times just to be sure it is well combined. Now, I'm sure you've seen decorated pumpkin cookies before. You can cook Pumpkin spiced sugar cookies and royal icing using 16 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Pumpkin spiced sugar cookies and royal icing

You need of For cookies.
It's 2 1/4 cups of flour sifted.
You need 3/4 cup of sugar.
You need 3/4 cup of butter room temperature.
It's 1 of large egg.
It's 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder.
You need 1/4 teaspoon of salt.
Prepare 1 1/4 teaspoon of vanilla.
It's 1 teaspoon of pumpkin spice flavoring.
You need 1 1/2 teaspoons of cinnamon.
It's 1/2 teaspoon of nutmeg.
You need 1 of + tablespoons milk(as needed).
You need of For royal icing.
You need 3 tablespoons of meringue powder.
You need 4 cups of powdered sugar.
You need 5 tablespoons of water plus more for thinning.

These, though, actually have pumpkin in the cookie! Spiced pumpkin cookies are topped with a traditional royal icing. The decorating part couldn't be simpler—I promise! These cookies are thick, soft, and a little cake-like.

Pumpkin spiced sugar cookies and royal icing step by step

Cream sugar and butter together. Once the sugar and butter are completely combined, add the remaining wet cookie ingredients..
Sift all of the dry cookie ingredients together in a separate bowl. I suggest whisking the dry ingredients a few times just to be sure it is well combined..
Gradually add the dry ingredients into the wet. Once all of the ingredients are combined it should form a large ball of dough..
Separate the dough into two balls. Wrap the dough balls in plastic wrap and let chill for 30 minutes to an hour..
Once dough has chilled, preheat your oven to 350 degrees. While the oven is preheating. Roll out your dough and cut it into your desired shapes..
Place your cutouts onto a parchment lined cookie sheet (you may also use a silicone mat instead of parchment paper).
Bake your cookies for 7 to 9 minutes or until they just barely start to brown a the base of the cookie. Be extra careful not to overtake them or they may come out dry.
Once you have baked your cookies, you may start to prepare your royal icing. Start by combining all of your ingredients into your mixing bowl..
Give the icing a quick stir to combine just to save you the mess when you have to mix it.
Use a stand mixer with the whisk attachment (or a hand mixer) to whip your icing until you get stiff peaks. This only takes a few minutes however it may take more with a hand mixer..
Depending on how you want to decorate your cookies, you may need to thin your icing. Be extra careful not to over thin or the icing will flow off of the cookie..
If you want to color your icing you may do so but be sure to use a gel paste color or an icing color so as to not alter the consistency of your icing..
Let icing dry for 8 to 12 hours before handling the cookie..

Adding pumpkin pie spice to these sugar cookies gives them the perfect pumpkin spice flavor. This is optional when making this homemade sugar cookie recipe, they taste amazing both with and without the pumpkin pie spice added. You can add two teaspoons of pumpkin spice to your cookie dough if you want them to be. Pumpkin spiced sugar cookies and royal icing amanda.a.mcqueen Davis, California. When I got my new Sally's Cookie Addiction cookbook, I knew the first recipe I had to try was these Pumpkin Spice Sugar Cookies.