Prune and Pumpkin Cookies

Name: Prune and Pumpkin Cookies
Yield: Makes 12
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: 1 tsp ground cinnamon; ½ tsp freshly grated nutmeg; pinch of salt; 5 oz / 140 g pitted prunes, chopped; 1½ oz / 40 g unsalted butter, softened; 1 egg; 1 oz / 30 g light muscovado sugar; 4 oz / 110 g pumpkin purée; ½ tsp pure vanilla essence; 1½ tsp baking powder; 8 oz / 230 g plain flour

Preparation info

Makes
12

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Times Cookbook

By Frances Bissell

Published 1995

About

Ingredients

1½ oz / 40 g unsalted butter, softened
1 oz / 30

Americas
United States
Dessert
Cookies
Vegetarian

Method

Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy, beat in the egg and vanilla essence and then the pumpkin. Sift the dry ingredients together and mix thoroughly with the pumpkin mixture. Stir in the prunes. Take heaped tablespoons of the mixture, and drop on to a greased baking sheet, spacing well apart (use two trays, if ne