Yummy Pumpkin flavored snickerdoodlish cookies for your Halloween table!
These are soft and spicy and just pumpkiny enough to please.
This was inspired by several other pumpkin snickerdoodle recipes I read online, but none of them had enough pumpkin pie spice for my taste.. This is my version with the spices kicked up a notch. ( next time, I might add a dash more of each, but I like pumpkin desserts spicy.. )

Step 1: What You Need:

For the cookie dough

2 sticks of butter, softened
1 cup of white sugar
1/2 cup of dark brown sugar
1 cup puréed pumpkin
1 egg
2 tsps vanilla
3 3/4 cup flour
1 1/2 tsps baking powder
1/2 tsp sea salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp ginger
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp allspice
Red and yellow food coloring

For the sugar coating

1/2 cup white sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp ginger
A dash of nutmeg
a dash of allspice

An oven preheated to 350
a mixer
bowls
a refrigerator
cookie sheets
parchment paper
clean glass
black cookie decorating icing (or royal icing tinted black)

Step 2: Dry Ingredients

Mix flour, baking powder, cookie spices and salt in a medium bowl and set aside

Step 3: In the Mixer

Mix the softened butter and sugars until creamy.
Add in cup of pumpkin and beat until blended.
Mix in vanilla, egg, 6 drops of red food coloring and 8 drops of yellow.
Beat until smooth.

Step 4: Add in Dry Ingredients

Add dry ingredients and mix until just blended. (Don't over mix, or they will get tough)

Step 5: Chill Out

Cover and refrigerate for about an hour

Step 6: Mix Up the Sugar Coating

In a bowl containing the last 1/2cup of sugar, add 4 drops of red food coloring and 6 drops of yellow food coloring. With a fork, mix the sugar, breaking the colored chunks up until all of the sugar is an even orange color.
Add remaining spices.

Step 7: Roll Some Cookies

Once the dough is chilled, roll dough in balls, about a tablespoon at a time.
Roll the ball in the sugar spice mix and place on the parchment covered cookie sheet.
Flatten slightly with the bottom of a glass.
continue until your cookie sheet is full.
Bake at 350 for 10-11 minutes

Step 8: Decorate

Remove from oven and let cool.
Draw faces on the pumpkins using cookie icing... I didn't get a photo of that step.. I was caught up in the Halloween magic of jack o lantern faces and forgot to snap a picture.
Decorated, they look like this...
And that's it!
Enjoy!