Pumpkin spiced sugar cookies and royal icing. Fall is the perfect time to bake up a batch of Pumpkin Spiced Cut-Out Cookies with Maple Royal Icing. 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.

The trick to making the decorative designs is to use Royal Icing. Adding pumpkin pie spice to these sugar cookies gives them the perfect pumpkin spice flavor. This is optional when making this homemade sugar cookie recipe, they taste amazing both with and without the pumpkin pie spice added. You can cook Pumpkin spiced sugar cookies and royal icing using 16 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Pumpkin spiced sugar cookies and royal icing

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

You can add two teaspoons of pumpkin spice to your cookie dough if you want them to be. 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. 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.

Pumpkin spiced sugar cookies and royal icing step by step

1. Cream sugar and butter together. Once the sugar and butter are completely combined, add the remaining wet cookie ingredients..
2. 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..
3. Gradually add the dry ingredients into the wet. Once all of the ingredients are combined it should form a large ball of dough..
4. Separate the dough into two balls. Wrap the dough balls in plastic wrap and let chill for 30 minutes to an hour..
5. 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..
6. Place your cutouts onto a parchment lined cookie sheet (you may also use a silicone mat instead of parchment paper).
7. 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.
8. 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..
9. Give the icing a quick stir to combine just to save you the mess when you have to mix it.
10. 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..
11. 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..
12. 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..
13. Let icing dry for 8 to 12 hours before handling the cookie..

I wanted to develop a royal icing flavour that would compliment the pumpkin spice cookie and pack some additional fall flavour. I knew that Maple Syrup would be the perfect addition to the flavour profile of these cookies. Be sure to use a high quality pure maple syrup when creating this royal icing. For the cookies: Put the sugar in a food processor and pulse a few times to finely grind. Pumpkin Spice Frosting takes Pumpkin Spice Cookies to another level.