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Mini Sugar Cookie Pumpkin Pies

This dessert is amazing mash-up of two traditions: sugar cookies and pumpkin pie!
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Course Dessert
Cuisine American, Amish

Ingredients
  

Cookies

  • ½ cup sugar, plus ⅛ cup sugar
  • ¼ teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 egg
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 6 tablespoons butter
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • ½ cup lard or shortening
  • 2 cups flour
  • 3 oz (¼ cup plus ⅛ cup) milk

Filling

  • 4 oz cream cheese
  • ½ cup canned pumpkin
  • ¼ cup sugar
  • ½ teaspoon cinnamon
  • ¼ teaspoon nutmeg

Frosting

  • 4 oz cream cheese
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla
  • 2 cups powdered sugar

Instructions
 

Cookies

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  • Cream together the sugar, butter and lard.Add eggs and beat.
  • Mix soda and vanilla into milk.
  • Mix baking powder in with flour.
  • Add milk and flour alternately to creamed mixture.
  • Chill dough for approximately an hour (or overnight) before rolling ½” thick.
  • Reserve dough until you are done with the filling below and follow instructions.

Filling

  • Mix cream cheese until soft and smooth then add sugar and pumpkin and mix until well combined and lump free
     
  • Line muffin pan with cupcake liners, and shape cookie dough into mini "pies". A
  • Add filling to center of pies and bake 13-15 minutes at 350 until cookies are lightly golden and filling is set.

Frosting

  • Mix until smooth, put in a Ziploc bag with the corner cutoff, and squeeze on top of the pies to look like whipped cream
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