Pumpkin spiced sugar cookies and royal icing. 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. The flavor is more subtle than spicy gingerbread with just the right amount of fall spices and pumpkin flavor. 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. For Halloween, simply add jack-o-lantern faces using black royal icing. You will need to make some Royal Icing, which is just a combination of powdered sugar, meringue powder, and water. 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

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

Meringue powder is a substitute for egg whites and is often used in icing to help it hold its shape. You can get it at most stores like JoAnn Fabric or Hobby Lobby or Michaels. Pumpkin spiced sugar cookies and royal icing amanda.a.mcqueen Davis, California. Perfect for fall and perfect as a base for royal icing or on their own, I love this twist on my pumpkin spice cut-out cookie recipe.

Pumpkin spiced sugar cookies and royal icing instructions

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..

Delicious toffee bits and flavoring added to pumpkin sugar cookies, so yummy! I'll jump right in and share a few notes and then onto the recipe below. Notes: These sugar cookies have a hint of that pumpkin spice flavour and a delicious maple royal icing. Since I added the flavour of fall into the cookies themselves, I decided to keep the decorating simple. I will share the tutorial later this week on how to decorate these beautiful white gilded pumpkins and leaves.