Pumpkin is an autumnal vegetable. It’s so bright, pretty and healthy yet delicious! A great variety of dishes can be made of pumpkin: porridges, soups, garnishes, pies and cookies. In fact, today HozOboz suggests to cook the latter, so pumpkin cookies is our issue today. It’s very simple but be ready to spent some time rolling the cookies in sugar (or sugar powder, as you like). But come on, it never stops you, doesn't it?
You can count about 20 different kinds of pumpkin. The wild ones are rather common in warm regions of Americas, Asia and Africa; a lot of them are cultivated for eating or for decoration (curly pumpkin). There are also special forage varieties that are used for animal feeding.
It was first mentioned in writings related to the Aztecs period, the representatives of which had already eaten not only the fruits of this orange product, but it flowers as well. By the way, in India pumpkin is not only eaten but helps to catch the monkeys. They simply drill a small hole and pour some rice into a pumpkin. A monkey puts its hand into the pumpkin to get rice but can't get it out anymore. Poor monkey. Anyway, we have moved deviated from our topic.
Pumpkin has a great number of advantages for your health and body. Despite the fact that it consists of 90% water, pumpkin is an excellent source of carotene and vitamins necessary in the first place for those suffering from cardiovascular diseases.
Vitamin E is also contained in pumpkin and helps to combat premature aging and zinc salts are necessary for the harmonious development of the male body. This pumpkin is a vegetable diet, which can be eaten even in inflammatory diseases of the intestine and stomach. By the way, pumpkin is a part of vegetable diet which can be eaten even in case of inflammatory diseases of the intestine and stomach.
Using blender or mincer, make a pumpkin puree.
Put some sugar in the bowl.
Add some butter to the sugar powder.
Sugar and butter should be mixed.
During the process of mixing, add pumpkin puree.
The dough gets orange.
Keep doing it until the pumpkin is up.
Now the dough should look like on the picture.
Break an egg into the dough.
The eggs will add liquidity.
Pour some flour into the dough.
Add some salt.
You should add baking powder now.
To add some airiness, pour soda.
No it’s time for cinnamon - it goes perfect with other ingredients.
On the plate a little mound of sugar with powdered sugar.
With a tablespoon take the dough and crumble cookies on the plate with sugar.
Cover the tray with a parchment and place the cookies.
Bake pumpkin cookies about 8 minutes at 360F. Check it with a toothpick as always.
Well, our fluffy and yummy pumpkin cookies are ready to be served. Pour the tea and call everyone to the table!
So, here we go, the Pumpkin cookies are on the table. We hope you enjoyed the experience of cooking with us and our recipe. By the way, you may cook something else with pumpkin, like pumpkin seed cookies or pumpkin oatmeal cookies. However, pumpkin oatmeal cookies may be even sweet. But that’s another story which HozOboz will probably tell the next time!