SPICED PUMPKIN COOKIES
Soft, chewy and sweet, these cookies are topped with a cheesecake cream laced with warming spices.
Preparation time: 30 mins (plus 2 hrs in the fridge) Cooking time: 25 mins Serves: 12
For the cookies
■ 110g soft brown sugar
■ 80g caster sugar
■ 60g soft butter
■ 85g mashed cooked pumpkin or canned pumpkin purée
■ 1 medium egg
■ 250g flour
■ 1 tsp baking powder
■ ¼ tsp salt
■ 100g pumpkin seeds
For the filling
■ 75g cream cheese
■ 1 tbsp icing sugar
■ 75g double cream
■ 1 medium egg
■ 1 tsp mixed spice
1 To make the cookies, mix the sugars and the butter together in a bowl. Stir in the mashed pumpkin and egg. Add the flour, baking powder, salt and pumpkin seeds, and mix to form a dough.
Divide the
