Pumpkin Butter Stuffed Pumpkin Spice M&M Cookies
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Serves: 24
 
Pumpkin Spice M&M cookies stuffed with gooey, sweet pumpkin butter make a fabulous fall dessert that will have your tastebuds swooning.
Ingredients
  • 1 Cup Unsalted Butter
  • 1 Cup Brown Sugar, Packed
  • ½ Cup White Sugar
  • 2 Eggs
  • 1 tsp. Vanilla Extract
  • 1 tsp. Ground Cinnamon
  • ½ tsp. Nutmeg
  • ¼ tsp. Cloves
  • ¼ tsp. Ground Ginger
  • ½ tsp. Sea Salt
  • ½ tsp. Baking Soda
  • 2¼ Cups Flour
  • 1-2 Cups Pumpkin Spice M&M's
  • ½ Cup Pumpkin Butter
Instructions
  1. Do not preheat your oven at this time, as you will need to chill the dough in the refrigerator for up to 2 hours.
  2. In a large bowl, mix together butter and sugars until just blended. Add vanilla, then eggs, one at a time.
  3. In a separate bowl, mix together spices, salt, baking soda, and flour. With mixer going, slowly add dry ingredients to the wet ingredients.
  4. Mix in M&M's. Wrap dough in Saran wrap or put in a Ziploc bag and place in the refrigerator to chill for 2 hours.
  5. Place Pumpkin Butter in the freezer to chill for 2 hours. Pumpkin Butter will not actually freeze, but this will make it thicker and easier to use in this recipe.
  6. After 2 hours, preheat oven to 350°.
  7. On a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper or a silpat, drop chilled cookie dough by the tablespoon. Because these cookies are large and do spread, I only placed 4 cookies at a time on the cookie sheet.
  8. Press a large divot into each cookie dough ball and fill with 1 tsp. chilled Pumpkin Butter. Cover with another tablespoon of cookie dough and form into a nice ball. Do this for each cookie.
  9. Bake in the oven for 8-10 minutes or until edges begin to brown.
  10. Let cool for at least 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely. Do not stack on top of each other until they are completely cooled.
Recipe by The Pescetarian and the Pig at https://www.thepescetarianandthepig.com/2013/09/06/pumpkin-butter-stuffed-pumpkin-spice-mm-cookies/