Pumpkin soft cookies

Fluffy and soft, a real pleasure to the senses. The pumpkin is so deeply hidden inside that there is no way to be discovered. Even people who are not so fond of pumpkin eat with pleasure not knowing the reason for the nice orange color.

Ingredients:

1 cup sugar

1 cup pumpkin puree

1 egg

125 г. масло

2 1/2 cups flour

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp nutmeg

Chocolate glaze out of 100g chocolate and little butter/oil.

Leave the butter at room temperature and beat with sugar. You can do it either with a mixer or in hand with a fork. Add the beaten egg and the pumpkin puree. Be careful the puree would not be too hot because it will curdle. This is not such a big problem for the dough but in this case you would need more flour.

In a separate bowl sift the flour with the baking powder and the soda. Add the salt, cinnamon, nutmeg. Stir well and pour the pumpkin mixture. The dough is thick and sticky but don't be tempted to add more flour otherwise the cookies won't be soft enough. The texture should be somewhere between cake and bread dough. There is no need to knead with hands.

Cover your pan with baking paper. Form round cookies with the help of two table spoons. Bake in preheated oven at 180 deg for about 20-22 minutes.

Leave them to cool down after baking. Melt the chocolate and add some oil/butter. Decorate the cookies as you wish. They are ready to be served as long as the chocolate glaze hardens.

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