The most delicious Pumpkin Spice Cream Cheese Cookies on the internet! Made with a few basic ingredients and pumpkin pie spice, these cream cheese cookies are sure to be your new fav!

Delish Cream Cheese Cookies

We’ve been fall baking since before fall even started! Pies, crisps, and all the cookies! These yummy pumpkin spice cream cheese cookies are such a treat to make and really do remind me of fall!

Basic ingredients: The basics of cream cheese cookies go as follow: all-purpose flour, white sugar, and cream cheese. Then, you add in your flavor combos, bake them, and boom!

Taste of pumpkin: we tested these cream cheese cookies using actual pumpkin puree and decided all they needed was a little pumpkin pie spice, instead. Easy peasy.

Epic glaze: every cream cheese cookie deserves a glaze and ours is maple-y and delicious.

How to Make Cream Cheese Cookies (step by step)

Preheat the oven to 350ºF and grease a baking sheet with non-stick cooking spray.
Mix together dry ingredients and set aside. Then, place the softened cream cheese and butter to a standing mixer and beat on medium/high until the cream cheese and butter are creamed and smooth.
Add the sugar to the butter and cream cheese and mix until smooth. Add the egg and beat on low until the egg is combined in with the rest of the ingredients.
Slowly add dry ingredients to the wet ingredients. Add about 1/3 cup of the dry ingredients to the mixer. When the flour is mixed into the cream cheese mixture, add another 1/3 cup of the dry ingredients. Repeat until all of the dry ingredients are gone.
Use a large cookie scoop and scoop out the cookie dough onto the greased baking sheet. Do not press the cookies down flat.
Bake at 350ºF for 9-11 minutes.
Remove the cookies from the oven and let the cool for 10 minutes.

what should my cookies look like?

These cookies are meant to be light, fluffy, and a bit dome-shaped. So, don’t press them down before baking!

How to make a Maple Glaze

The sugar on top (literally) is a maple glaze that you dip your cream cheese cookies in before eating. Cookie glazes are rather simple to make. Here’s what you need for this one:

powdered sugar
maple syrup
milk (optional)

Place all ingredients into a small bowl and mix to combine. You may or may not need to use milk depending on how thick you want your glaze. You can drizzle your glaze or thin it out a bit so you can dip instead!

2 cream cheese cookies stacked on eachother

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Pumpkin Spice Cream Cheese Cookies

Delicious pumpkin spice cream cheese cookies made the basics of flour, sugar, cream cheese, and pumpkin pie spice.

Prep:15

Cook:12

Total:27

Fat 11

Carbs 37

Protein 3

Yield:

Print Rate

Ingredients

Dry Ingredients

3/4 cup white sugar
2 cups white all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons pumpkin spice

Wet

6 oz. softened cream cheese
1/2 cup unsalted butter softened
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 large egg

Glaze

1 cup powdered sugar
1/4 cup maple syrup
1 teaspoon milk

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350ºF and grease a baking sheet with non-stick cooking spray.
Add all of the dry ingredients to a medium size bowl and mix. Set aside.
Next, add the softened cream cheese and butter to a standing mixer (a hand held mixer would work too) and beat on medium/high until the cream cheese and butter are creamed and smooth.
Add the sugar to the butter and cream cheese and mix until smooth.
Add the egg to the creamed mixture and beat on low until the egg is combined in with the rest of the ingredients. Be careful not to over beat the egg!
Finally, slowly start adding the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients. Add about 1/3 cup of the dry ingredients to the mixer. When the flour is mixed into the cream cheese mixture, add another 1/3 cup of the dry ingredients. Repeat until all of the dry ingredients are gone.
Finally, use a large cookie scoop and scoop out the cookie dough onto the greased baking sheet. Do not press the cookies down flat. These cookies are meant to be light, fluffy, and a bit dome-shaped!
Place the cookies in the oven and bake at 350ºF for 9-11 minutes.
While the cookies are baking, add all the ingredients for the maple glaze into a bowl and mix with a spoon until smooth. Set aside.
Remove the cookies from the oven and let the cool for 10 minutes.
Lastly, glaze your cookies by dipping the top of each cookie into the maple glaze. Dip the top half of the cookie into the glaze. Carefully shake any access glaze from the cookie and then place the cookie on a cooling rack to dry. Repeat.