For those who’re a fan of basic oatmeal cream pies and might’t get sufficient of pumpkin spice, these pumpkin oatmeal cream pies are your subsequent must-try bake! Begin by baking a batch of sentimental pumpkin oatmeal cookies—no dough chilling wanted. Then, sandwich them along with a tangy, spiced cream cheese filling to create irresistible oatmeal cream pies bursting with cozy fall flavors.
Whereas there’s a lot to like about fall—cooler temps, colourful leaves, Halloween enjoyable—clearly the perfect half about this time of 12 months is the BAKING.
Right now’s pumpkin sandwich cookie recipe is a brand new one so as to add to your record of must-try fall recipes. I do know that record might be fairly lengthy… however belief me, this one is worthy of a spot on it!
Why You’ll Love These Fall Sandwich Cookies
A Few Notes Concerning the Components:
- Pumpkin Puree: You need the pure stuff, not the can labeled “pumpkin pie filling.” You gained’t use the whole can on this recipe, so here’s a record of recipes to make with leftover pumpkin puree.
- Oats: Finer-cut fast oats could dry out the dough, so I like to recommend complete oats right here.
- Spices: Pumpkin by itself doesn’t have numerous taste. You want cinnamon + pumpkin pie spice to present it a lift.
- Sugar: You want a mixture of each white granulated and brown sugar—brown sugar to maintain the cookies moist and chewy, white granulated to assist with spreading.
- Egg Yolk: Eggs + pumpkin can create a cake-like cookie, however right here I desire a tender and chewy cookie. So, skip the egg white and use simply the yolk.
5 Success Suggestions for Making the Finest Pumpkin Oatmeal Cream Pies
We examined a couple of variations of the recipe under, and discovered some key success suggestions alongside the best way. Pleased to share:
1. Blot the pumpkin. Pumpkin puree is a significantly moist ingredient (it’s 90% water), which is an effective factor for including moisture to desserts, pumpkin muffins, and pumpkin bread. But it surely poses an issue once we’re attempting to make dense, chewy oatmeal cookies. Extra moisture = cakier cookies.
To forestall overly cakey cookies, blot some moisture out of the pumpkin utilizing paper towels. You’ll begin with 1 cup of pumpkin puree (about 225–240g); after blotting, you must find yourself with about 3/4 cup (170g).
2. Use solely an egg yolk. Pumpkin acts form of like an egg in cookie dough, which I discovered when testing pumpkin chocolate chip cookies again in 2013 (that’s an egg-free recipe). Testing pumpkin oatmeal cookies, nevertheless, proved that an egg—or at the very least a part of an egg—is important. The cookies had been a bit dry and crumbly with out it due to the oats within the dough. Use simply 1 massive egg yolk right here, as a result of that little additional little bit of fats makes a distinction.
3. Use a cookie scoop. I strongly advocate utilizing a medium cookie scoop. Why? First, as a result of the cookies must all be roughly equal in measurement (a few scant 1 and 1/2 Tablespoons) to sandwich collectively. And second, as a result of this dough is very sticky and could be a lot too troublesome to roll together with your fingers. A cookie scoop scrapes the dough out cleanly and drops a superbly sized lump of dough onto the baking sheet each time.
For those who do not need a cookie scoop, drop a heaping Tablespoon (about 25–30g) of dough for every cookie onto the lined baking sheet.
It is best to get about 36–40 cookies out of this dough, so that you’ll find yourself with 18–20 sandwiches.
4. Flatten out the cookies barely earlier than baking. You need to use the again of a spoon for this. These cookies don’t develop a lot within the oven, and urgent them down first encourages spreading. The outcome? Chewier, flatter cookies good for sandwiching collectively to make a pumpkin oatmeal cream pie.
5. Spoon the perimeters. In case your cookies are spreading an excessive amount of or erratically, take away them from the oven and use a spoon to calmly push any wonky edges again in in direction of the middle, to reshape into circles. (I do that with chocolate chip cookies.) Return to the oven to proceed baking. You may repeat this trick once more, if wanted, after baking.
Pumpkin Spice Cream Cheese Filling
Make the filling whilst you look ahead to the cookies to chill. You want cream cheese and confectioners’ sugar, plus a couple of substances that you just used for the cookie dough, too: butter, vanilla, pumpkin pie spice, and salt.
The filling required a little bit of testing. I stored decreasing the sugar, to essentially assist the pumpkin spice and cream cheese flavors stand out. Nevertheless, the extra confectioners’ sugar you scale back, the thinner the filling turns into. What you see right here is a perfect consistency, with simply sufficient sweetness.
Assembling Oatmeal Cream Pies
You need to use a pastry bag + tip and pipe the filling, or just unfold it on with a knife or icing spatula. If you wish to pipe it and do not need a piping tip and pastry bag, use a daily zip-top plastic bag and snip off 1 nook. Pipe or unfold the frosting onto the bottoms of half the cookies, then sandwich with the remaining cookies. I used Wilton 2A tip to pipe.
Variation: Pumpkin Ice Cream Sandwiches
These tender and chewy pumpkin oatmeal cookies would additionally make great ice cream cookie sandwiches! Merely swap the cream cheese filling for vanilla or pumpkin ice cream, and comply with the directions for sandwiching the cookies with softened ice cream, wrapping, and freezing from my cookie ice cream sandwich recipe.
Pumpkin Oatmeal Cream Pies
Prep Time: 1 hour
Prepare dinner Time: quarter-hour
Whole Time: 2 hours, quarter-hour (consists of cooling)
Yield: 18-20 sandwiches
Class: Cookies
Methodology: Baking
Delicacies: American
Description
Smooth and chewy pumpkin oatmeal cookies are sandwiched with tangy-sweet and spiced cream cheese filling. To make sure the perfect outcomes, assessment my success suggestions above earlier than starting.
Directions
- Blot the pumpkin: Line a medium bowl with 2 paper towels. Place the pumpkin puree within the bowl. Utilizing one other paper towel, press right down to blot extra moisture out of the pumpkin. After blotting, ensure you have about 3/4 cup (170g) of pumpkin. Discard paper towels and set blotted pumpkin apart.
- Preheat oven to 350°F (177°C). Line massive baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats. Put aside.
- In a medium bowl, whisk the oats, flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and pumpkin pie spice collectively.
- In a big bowl utilizing a handheld or stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, beat the butter and each sugars collectively on medium-high pace till creamed, about 2 minutes. Scrape down the edges of the bowl as wanted. Add the egg yolk and vanilla extract and beat on excessive pace till mixed. Add the blotted pumpkin, and beat on excessive pace till mixed.
- Add the dry substances to the moist substances and blend on low pace till integrated, then improve to medium pace and beat till mixed. Dough will likely be creamy, tender, and sticky.
- Utilizing a medium cookie scoop, scoop cookie dough (a few scant 1 and 1/2 Tablespoons (25–30g) of dough every) and drop on the cookie sheet, about 3 inches aside. With the again of a spoon, press right down to barely flatten the balls, because the cookies gained’t unfold a lot until you assist out first.
- Bake for 14–16 minutes or till calmly browned and set on the perimeters. Take away from the oven and permit cookies to chill for 10 minutes on the baking sheet, then switch to a cooling rack to chill utterly. (Success Tip: In case your cookies are spreading erratically, take away them from the oven and use a spoon to calmly push any wonky edges again in in direction of the middle, to reshape into circles. You may repeat this trick once more, if wanted, while you take them out of the oven after baking.)
- Make the filling: Utilizing a handheld or stand mixer fitted with a paddle or whisk attachment, beat cream cheese and butter on excessive pace till clean and creamy, about 1 minute. Add the confectioners’ sugar, pumpkin pie spice, vanilla, and salt. Beat on low pace till confectioners’ sugar is integrated, then improve to excessive pace and beat till clean and creamy. Pipe or unfold a few of the filling on the underside facet of half of the cooled cookies; high with remaining cookies, proper facet up. I used Wilton 2A tip to pipe.
- Cowl and retailer leftover cookies at room temperature for as much as 1 day. After that, retailer within the fridge for as much as 1 week to maintain the creamy filling contemporary.
Notes
- Make Forward & Freezing Directions: You may make the cookie dough and retailer it, tightly coated, within the fridge for as much as 3 days. Carry to room temperature earlier than persevering with with step 6. Baked cookies, cooled however not stuffed/sandwiched, freeze nicely for as much as 3 months. (For greatest style and texture, filling ought to be contemporary.) Thaw in a single day within the fridge and produce to room temperature earlier than persevering with with step 6. Unbaked cookie dough balls freeze nicely for as much as 3 months. Bake from frozen, including a minute or two to the baking time. Learn my suggestions and methods on the right way to freeze cookie dough.
- Particular Instruments (affiliate hyperlinks): Glass Mixing Bowl | Whisk | Electrical Mixer (Handheld or Stand) | Meals Scale | Baking Sheets | Silicone Baking Mats or Parchment Sheets | Medium Cookie Scoop | Cooling Rack | Small Icing Spatula (for filling) | Piping Bag (Reusable or Disposable) and Wilton 2A (for filling)
- Why Am I Blotting Moisture Out of Pumpkin Puree? Pumpkin puree is a very moist ingredient (it’s 90% water), which is an effective factor for including moisture to desserts, pumpkin muffins, and pumpkin bread. But it surely poses an issue once we’re attempting to make dense, chewy oatmeal cookies. Begin with 1 cup of pumpkin (about 225–240g) and blot out sufficient moisture and liquid to yield 3/4 cup (170g) of denser, thicker puree.
- Use Complete Oats: Finer-cut fast oats could dry out the dough, so I like to recommend complete oats right here.
- Pumpkin Pie Spice: You could find pumpkin pie spice within the baking aisle of most grocery shops or make your personal do-it-yourself pumpkin pie spice. For those who don’t have both and need to use particular person spices, for the cookies: use 1/2 teaspoon floor ginger, 1/2 teaspoon floor allspice, 1/2 teaspoon floor nutmeg, 1/4 teaspoon floor cloves, and an additional 1/4 teaspoon floor cinnamon. Don’t miss the 1 teaspoon of floor cinnamon that can be referred to as for on this recipe. For the filling: Use a pinch every of the identical spices (you could need to keep away from floor cloves within the filling, or make it an additional small pinch—it’s fairly sturdy).
- Use Solely the Egg Yolk: Pumpkin acts form of like an egg in cookie dough, so that you don’t want a whole egg right here. Use solely the yolk, to assist in giving the cookies construction and supply moisture and richness.
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