Cranberry Walnut Pumpkin Cookies Food

FROSTED PUMPKIN-WALNUT COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream butter; gradually add brown sugar, beating well at medium speed of an electric mixer.
• Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition.
• Stir in pumpkin and vanilla.
• Combine flour, baking powder, salt, and pumpkin pie spice.
• Gradually add to creamed mixture, mixing well.
• Stir in walnuts.
• Chill for at least 1 hour or until ready to bake.
• Drop dough by teaspoonfuls 2 inches apart onto greased cookie sheets. I used a 1 1/2 inch cookie scoop and got 58 cookies.
• Bake at 375F for 11-12 minutes.
• Cool on wire racks.
• Frost with Maple Frosting.
• (Maple Frosting).
• Cream butter; gradually add 1 cup powdered sugar, beating well at medium speed of an electric mixer.
• Add remaining sugar alternately with milk, beating until smooth enough to spread.You may need to add a bit more milk.
• Add maple extract, and beat well.

PUMPKIN CRANBERRY COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Cream together the butter and the sugars.
• Beat in the egg, pumpkin and vanilla.
• Mix dry ingredients together and then add to the wet ingredients and blend well.
• Stir in dried cranberries.
• Drop batter by rounded tablespoons onto a greased cookie sheet.
• Bake for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown.

CRANBERRY WALNUT COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease a baking sheet.
• Cream white sugar, brown sugar, and butter together in a large mixing bowl. Beat milk, orange juice, and egg into the creamed mixture.
• Sift flour, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, and baking soda together in a separate bowl; blend into the wet ingredients in the mixing bowl to form a cookie dough. Stir cranberries and walnuts into the dough.
• Drop the dough onto the prepared baking sheet by the teaspoonful.
• Bake in the preheated oven until the edges are golden, 10 to 15 minutes. Allow the cookies to cool on the baking sheet for 1 minute before removing to a wire rack to cool completely. Sprinkle confectioners' sugar over the cookies to serve.

CRANBERRY-WALNUT PUMPKIN LOAVES

Steps:

• Note: This bread has an overnight rise.
• [b]Mixingand Kneading[/b]: whisk 2 2/3 cup flour with the cinnamon, nutmeg and salt.
• Set aside.
• Sprinkle the yeast on the water and allow to bloom about 5 minutes.
• In a mixer with the paddle attachment, cream the butter and sugar on medium speed until light.
• Add the pumpkin and egg and beat until well blended.
• Don't be concerned if the mixture looks curdled.
• Set the mixer to low speed and add the yeast, then begin to add the dry ingredients about 1/2 cup at a time.
• As soon as the mixture starts to form a dough that comes together, scrape the paddle clean and switch to the dough hook.
• If your dough doesn't come together (it might be because the pumpkin had too much liquid) add a bit more flour, a tablespoon at a time, until it does.
• Mix and knead the dough on med-low spped for 10-15 minutes, scraping down the bowl and dough hook now and then.
• At the start, the dough will look more like a batter than a dough, but as you continue to work, it will develop into a soft, very sticky dough that will ball up on the hook.
• The dough develops much the way brioche does.
• With the machine on low speed, add the walnuts and raisins, mixing only until incorporated, about 1 minute.
• Add the cranberries and mix as little as possible to avoid crushing them, although some cranberries will pop and stain a patch of the dough red; think of this as charming and proceed.
• [b]FirstRise[/b]: scrape the dough into a lightly buttered large bowl, cover tightly with plastic wrap and set aside at room temperature to rise until nearly doubled- 2-3 hours.
• [b]Chillingthe dough[/b]: when the dough has doubled, fold it over on itself a couple of times to deflate it, wrap it tightly in plastic and refrigerate overnight.
• [b]Shapingthe dough[/b]: at least 6 hours before you want to begin baking, remove the dough from the refrigerator.
• Leave it covered, in its bowl, until it reaches at least 64 degrees F.
• on the insta-read thermometer.
• This will take as long as 3-4 hours- don't rush it.
• If you don't have an insta-read, look for the dough to be slightly cool and just a little spongy.
• Lightly butter 2 loaf pans.
• Working on a lightly floured surface, divide the dough in half and pat each piece of dough into a rectangle, keeping the short end facing you.
• Start at the top and roll the dough toward you and seal the seam by pressing it with your fingertips.
• Seal the ends, then place each roll in the pans, seams down.
• [b]SecondRise[/b]: cover the pans lightly with a kitchen towel and allow to rise at room temperature for 1 1/2 to 2 hours or until the dough has nearly doubled.
• It will rise to just above the rim of the pans.
• [b]Baking[/b]:preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Bake about 50-55 minutes or until deep golden.
• Remove the pans to cooling racks.
• After resting 5 minutes, turn the loaves out of the pans to cool to room temp.
• The breads can be kept at room temperature for a day or two or frozen, wrapped airtight, for up to 1 month.
• Thaw, still wrapped, at room temp.
• NOTE 1: I have made this bread in small loaf pans and given them as gifts.
• They will bake in about 30 minutes if formed into the small loaves.
• NOTE 2: The rising times are approximate.
• They definitely rise on the longer side of the time-table, but whatever you do, dont' rush the rising.
• Give yourself 2 full days to make this.
• But- the result will be totally worth it.

PUMPKIN CRANBERRY BREAKFAST COOKIE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F.
• Place all ingredients in bowl, stir together until combined.
• Roll the cookies into golf ball sized balls with cooking oil sprayed hands.
• Place on cookie sheet (s) about 2 inches apart, giving them room to spread slightly.
• Spray tops with cooking oil, flip over with a cooking oil sprayed spatula, these are precautions so your cookies won't stick to the pan.
• Bake about 8 minutes for moist cookies and 10-12 for dry cookies.
• Store in Tupperware between layers of waxed paper.
• Great with a pumpkin pie latte!

CRANBERRY-PUMPKIN COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets.
• In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla, egg and pumpkin. Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon; stir into mixture until well blended. Cut the cranberries in half and stir into mixture along with the orange zest and walnuts. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto cookie sheets.
• Bake for 10 to 12 minutes.