Easy-to-make pumpkin snickerdoodles cookies with lots of pumpkin flavor. They are coated in a sugar and cinnamon mixture before baking. A real pumpkin cookie treat!
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit or wait until the last few minutes the cookie dough will be in the refrigerator.
Put the dry ingredients into a bowl - the flour, cornstarch, cream of tartar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and pumpkin pie spice in a medium bowl and mix it up then set it aside for now.
In a microwave-safe bowl, melt the butter in the microwave for 30 seconds until softened.
Prepare the wet ingredients in a large bowl - add the melted butter, granulated sugar, and brown sugar. Mix with an electric hand mixer on low speed just until well blended including the sides and bottom of the bowl.
Beat the eggs in a small bowl.
Add the beaten eggs, pure pumpkin puree, and vanilla extract to the bowl with the melted butter and sugar mixtures. Mix on low speed just until well blended.
With the electric hand mixer, on low speed slowly add the dry ingredients with the wet ingredients a little at a time. While mixing, remember to include the ingredients that cling to the sides and bottom of the bowl.
Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and put the cookie dough in the refrigerator for about 45 minutes to an hour to chill.
While the cookie dough is in the refrigerator, in a small bowl, mix the cinnamon and the sugar.
Place a piece of parchment paper on a cookie sheet.
When it's time, get the cookie dough out of the refrigerator. Use a cookie scoop to make cookie dough balls.
Roll the cookie dough balls into the cinnamon and sugar mixture.
Place the cookie dough balls on the parchment paper on the cookie sheet about 2 inches apart.
Bake the cookies for 12 minutes.
Take the cookies out of the oven after 12 minutes, then let them cool down on the cookie sheet for a few minutes. After that, transfer the cookies to a cooling rack until completely cooled.
Notes
It is normal that the cookie dough balls are a bit sticky so the cinnamon and sugar mixture can adhere to them.
You can prepare the second batch of cookies while the first batch is in the oven.
Do not put unbaked cookie dough on a hot or even warm cookie sheet.