“Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; whose hearts are set on pilgrimage.”
Psalm 84:5
Pilgrim Pies!…… Well, I am pretty sure the pilgrims never tasted these before! 😉 It has become a tradition that I make these at least once around Thanksgiving and then I blog about them! 🙂 So, today was the day. I spotted that delightful can of organic pumpkin in the pantry that I had been saving for this very occasion, my grandpa was here to visits, and we needed a dessert!! Decadent cream cheese frosting sandwiched between two delightfully spicy pumpkin cookies! Doesn’t get much better in the pumpkin realm than this! 😉
Original Recipe Yield 12-15 “pies”
Ingredients
- 2 eggs
- 2 cups brown sugar
- 1 cup softened butter
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 (15oz) can Pumpkin
- 3 cups flour
- 1tbs pumpkin pie spice
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
Filling
- 4 oz cream cheese – softened
- 1/2 cup butter – softened
- 2tsp vanilla
- 4-5 cups powder sugar
Directions
- Heat oven to 350 degrees .
- Beat eggs, sugar, oil, vanilla, and pumpkin in large bowl. Add flour, pumpkin pie spice, soda, powder, and salt until well combine.
- Using an ice cream scoop(my favorite kitchen tool) or large spoon, spoon 1/4 cup dollops onto ungreased cookie sheet 1 1/2 inches apart. Bake for 11-14 minutes or until bottoms are golden. Let cool on tray for 5 minutes then remove from tray and let cool completely on parchment.
- Prepare filling. Combine all filling ingredients and blend on high speed until smooth and fluffy!
- Pipe filling onto 1 cookie and top with the second cookie. Continue with remaining cookies!
- Brew an extremely large pot of coffee and enjoy!
mleake
Very very good and pretty! One of those better the next day desserts!
Rachel
Thank you, mom!!!!!!!!! 🙂
Leah
These look really good. I am planning on making these for Thanksgiving. What kind of flour do you use? I’ll tell you how they work out when I make them! Thanks for sharing!
Rachel
Yay! I use all purpose white flour. 🙂 Let me know how you like them!!
Leah
These were a hit! Everyone enjoyed them. We had two Thanksgiving celebrations and they got good reviews from all who tried them.
I had one problem, in the ingredients you list butter, but you don’t mention when to add the butter in the recipe. You mention oil in the recipe, so I added the butter in where it says oil and they turned out great.
I didn’t add quite as much powdered sugar as you called for and it really helped the pumpkin flavor of the cookie stand out. Definitely a keeper!
Thanks for sharing!
Rachel
Yay! 🙂 I left a bit of the powder sugar out a couple weeks ago too! Definitely brought out the flavor of the cream cheese and pumpkin. 🙂 And the butter was the oil, just a bit of typo on my end. 😉 So glad these worked for you!
Jessie
Well, you’re probably going to laugh, but you make even crumpled up butter-paper look pretty! 😉 These are so cute! I’ll be stashing this one away for later.
Rachel
Haha, your comment completely made my day! 🙂 Thank you!
Definitely give these a try someday!