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Pumpkin Spice Thumbprint Cookies

October 6, 2017 by Nancy Piran 3 Comments

Soft baked pillowy Pumpkin Spice Thumbprint Cookies are perfect for using leftover pumpkin and making cookies that are out of this world!

Pumpkin Spice Thumbprint Cookies

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Happy Friday! I am ready for this week to be over because I have had a sick one home! She is finally well and back to school! YAY! That means I can go outdoors and be with big people!

My poor girl was so upset we wouldn’t let her go to school on Thursday that she just cried and cried. Her body was saying she couldn’t go back but her heart was tell her she wanted to!

I love that she LOVES school so much! I hope she keeps that for years and years!

Pumpkin Spice Thumbprint Cookies

This week for #PumpkinWeek I’ve shared with you these Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars and this Maple Pumpkin Monkey Bread!

I’ve definitely given you LOTS of options to choose from when using pumpkin this season.

Make sure you hop down to the bottom of the post to see all of the other AMAZING recipes that you will find to use pumpkin in! ENJOY!

Pumpkin Spice Thumbprint Cookies

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Pumpkin Spice Thumbprint Cookies

Yield: 24
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 12 minutes
Total Time: 22 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1 stick butter, room temperature
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 cup pumpkin
  • 1 1/2 cup all purpose flour
  • 1¼ teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
  • Filling:
  • 8 ounces cool whip
  • 2 tablespoons pumpkin
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1/4 cup powdered sugar

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Line cookie sheet with Silpat.
  2. In mixer add butter, sugar, and pumpkin. Mix till creamy and smooth.
  3. Add egg. Continue to mix. Add vanilla.
  4. Slowly mix in flour, baking powder and pumpkin pie spice.
  5. Roll into 1 inch balls. Press thumb into center.
  6. Bake for 12 minutes.
  7. Allow to completely cool.
  8. In small bowl add cool whip, pumpkin, cinnamon and powdered sugar.
  9. Pipe into cooled cookies and ENJOY!
© Nancy Piran
Category: Cookies

 

Here are today’s #PumpkinWeek recipes:

Pumpkin Drink Recipes:

“Grown Up” Potter Pumpkin Juice from The Crumby Kitchen.
Hot’N’Spicy Pumpkin Margarita from Culinary Adventures with Camilla.

Savory Pumpkin Recipes:

Pumpkin and Fish Stew from A Day in the Life on the Farm.
Pumpkin Chili from Making Miracles.
Pumpkin Crab Soup from Hardly A Goddess.
Pumpkin Pasta from Caroline’s Cooking.
Thai Pumpkin Curry from Palatable Pastime.

Sweet Pumpkin Recipes:

Caramel Pecan Pumpkin Bread from The Freshman Cook.
Fall Harvest Pumpkin Sourdough Muffins from Cooking With Carlee.
Pumpkin Spice Milkshake from Family Around The Table.
Pumpkin Pie Cream Horns from Mildly Meandering.

Pumpkin Pie Spice Snowball Cookies from Love and Confections.

Pumpkin Spice Thumbprint Cookies from The Bitter Side of Sweet.
Pumpkin Spiced Banana Bread from Daily Dish Recipes.
Pumpkin Tiramisu from The Redhead Baker.

Pumpkin Spice Thumbprint Cookies

 

Filed Under: Cookies, Desserts, pumpkin Tagged With: Cookies, dessert, fall baking, pumpkin, pumpkinspice, recipe

Mini Cherry Almond Galettes

July 27, 2017 by Nancy Piran 9 Comments

One of my favorite desserts to make are galettes! These Mini Cherry Almond Galettes are perfect if want to serve individual desserts!

This post and recipe was created for #SummerDessertWeek! I was sent samples by some of the sponsor companies but as always opinions are 100% mine.

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Filed Under: Desserts, Pie, Sponsored Tagged With: almond, cherries, cherry, easy, galette, honey, pie, recipe, sponsored, summer

Melt In Your Mouth Pot Roast

May 27, 2013 by Nancy Piran 2 Comments

Today’s the day for the Good Old Fashioned Recipe Blog Swap! Julie {White Lights on Wednesday}, Kelley {Miss Information} and Rachel {i love my disorganized life} have paired up 30 incredible bloggers to trade blogs for the day.

I am so glad you are here today! I want to introduce to you Stephanie from The TipToe Fairy! She is bringing us a fabulous recipe and I can’t wait for her to share it with you! We are switching blogs today, so make sure you check out both blogs to see what exciting recipes we swapped!
I’m Stephanie from The TipToe Fairy, and today I get to be the guest blogger over here for Nancy at The Bitter Side of Sweet for this great recipe blog swap. I’m so excited! This is my first time ever guest blogging.
My recipe today is a super easy Melt-in-Your-Mouth Pot Roast. Seriously. Super. Easy. It’s one of those great recipes you can fix, throw in the oven, and forget about for 3 or 4 hours. Plus, everyone loves it! When I serve this to my family, seconds are usually requested and every plate is almost always licked clean.
For this recipe you’ll want a chuck roast. Chuck pot roasts have more fat, and thus more flavor, than those from the round. This type of roast also contains more connective tissue, making them less tender. This is why it’s important to cook this type of meat at a low temperature for a long period of time.

Pot Roast is something you can’t rush, but with a little bit of patience, the end result is To Die For. The beef becomes fork-tender and develops a savory depth of flavor unique to slow-cooked beef. Plus, it turns into fall apart deliciousness.
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Blueberry Frozen Greek Yogurt

April 20, 2013 by Nancy Piran 18 Comments

Blueberry Frozen Greek Yogurt

Are you having warmer weather this weekend? I hope so! This Blueberry Frozen Greek Yogurt will go well with any day, any weather!

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Filed Under: Ice Cream/Frozen Yogurt Tagged With: food, greek yogurt, recipe, Spring

Chocolate Conversation Hearts Sour Cream Cookies

February 11, 2013 by Nancy Piran 4 Comments

Chocolate Conversation Hearts Sour Cream Cookies

I do not know if you remember but back around Christmas time I shared with you a family recipe called Cream Cookies.

Well ever since then I have been thinking about how I could make these for Valentine’s day.

I have seen all over the Internet conversation hearts and different types of recipes and techniques.

Chocolate Conversation Hearts Sour Cream Cookies

I really wanted to try my hand at them but having 4 kids and seeming to be so busy all of the time I wanted to get these done the easiest way I could.

A few years back at Christmas time whenever this cookie was made some family members started buying cream cheese frosting to smear onto the tops of these cookies and eat them like that.

So I thought to myself why not make my cream cheese frosting, color it and bingo. Conversation Heart Cookies.

I made them chocolate because it’s Valentine’s Day. You gotta have chocolate.

Chocolate Conversation Hearts Sour Cream Cookies

I also did some without the frosting as well, so you could see how these look plain. You can also spruce them up a little with just a touch of powdered sugar.

Chocolate Conversation Hearts Sour Cream Cookies

Again these are so versatile that you can top them even with red sprinkles and you still will have a really good cookie.  My husband likes to spread strawberry jam on them. It is actually pretty good that way as well.

If you do not have too much time in the day, this dough can be made the day before then refrigerated and finished up the next day. I made this into a three day project. The first day I made the dough and 20 minutes later I was done.

The second day I cut them and baked them. That took a little longer so I was in the kitchen for about an hour. On the third day I decorated them. Again I spent another hour in the kitchen.

Whichever way you decide to make these and serve them up I hope you enjoy and  have fun with it!

Chocolate Conversation Hearts Sour Cream Cookies

CHOCOLATE CONVERSATION HEARTS SOUR CREAM COOKIES

YIELD: 4 dozen

PREP TIME: 1 hour and 30 minutes

COOK TIME: 10 minutes

TOTAL TIME: 1 hour and 40 minutes

Ingredients for Cookies:

1/2 cup shortening

1 cup sugar

1 egg beaten

1/2 cup sour cream

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

3 to 3 1/2 cups all purpose flour

Ingredients for Icing:

4 tablespoons butter, cold butter

5 oz cream cheese directly from the refrigerator

2 cups powdered sugar

1 and 1/2 tablespoons milk

Food coloring

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 325. Prepare cookie sheet using parchment paper.

2. In mixer beat shortening and sugar. Add in egg and mix.

3. In separate small bowl dissolve baking soda into sour cream.

4. Alternate adding flour and sour cream into mixing bowl.

5. Incorporate all for a nice soft dough and put on countertop.

6. Roll the dough out using more flour if needed so it is not sticky.

7. Use cookie cutters to make your heart shapes.

8. Place on cookie sheet. Decorate with sprinkles if you are using sprinkles instead of frosting.

9. Bake for 8 minutes. Cool before decorating

10. For the icing mix butter and cream cheese in mixer for 30 seconds.

11. Mix in powdered sugar one cup at a time.

12. Mix in milk.

13. Separate into bowls and mix one to two drops of food coloring.

14. Spoon into piping bag or sandwich bag. Decorate and ENJOY!

This icing was made thick so I could pipe onto the cupcakes and so it would hold its shape.

You can add more milk to make it more spreadable if you would like to spread the icing on.

**notes**
1. These cookies can be cooked longer if you like a crunchy cookie, which my husband does so I make a tray just for him.

2. You can decorate after the cookie has cooled using frosting of your choice.

3. This is the half recipe, it can be doubled.

4. I only use sandwich bags for decorating. I cut the tip of one end to the size I want to pipe.

Chocolate Conversation Hearts Sour Cream Cookies

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Filed Under: Cookies, Random Tagged With: chocolate, Cookies, food, recipe, valentine's

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