This past weekend, we went to our local pumpkin patch on the hunt for our perfect family pumpkins. I love searching the field for the perfect shaped pumpkin with the perfect color that sits just right. It drives my husband nuts, but it’s my thing. I’m no better at Christmas when we look at trees either. It’s just who I am.
Anyway, with these ear-dorable pumpkin patch cookies, they are all perfect so no need to search anymore! These are from Military Family of 8.
Mickey Mouse Pumpkin Patch Cookie
Cookie Ingredients
- 1 C unsalted sweet cream butter, softened
- 1 1/2 C powder sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 2 1/2 C flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp cream of tartar
- 1 pumpkin cookie cutter
- cookie sheet fitted with parchment paper
Icing Ingredients:
- 2 egg whites
- 1/2 tsp cream of tartar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 3 C powdered sugar
- 2 piping bags fitted with a number 2 tip
- squeeze bottle
- Brown, green, and orange food coloring
Cookie Cutter:
Pumpkin Patch Mickey Mouse
Cookie Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- In a standing mixer, combine butter, powder sugar, egg and vanilla and mix on medium speed until combined and fluffy
- In a large bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, and cream of tartar.
- Gradually add in the flour to the wet mixture and mix on low speed until combined
- Once all the flour has been combined with the wet ingredients, sprinkle some flour onto a cutting board and knead with your hands until everything is combined
- Sprinkle flour onto the cutting board and roll out the dough to 2 inches thick
- Use the cookie cutter and cut your shapes
- Bake in the oven for 7-9 minutes or until slightly golden brown
- Place onto a wire rack to cool
Icing Directions:
- In a standing mixer, combine the egg whites, cream of tartar, vanilla, and powdered sugar and mix on medium speed until stiff peaks form, about 5-7 minutes
- Split icing into three bowls and get ready to add the food coloring into the bowls.
- Take out 4 TBSP of icing into one bowl adding several drops of brown food coloring. Mixing well.
- Remove another 6 TBSP of icing into another bowl adding several drops of green food coloring, mix well.
- Put the rest of the icing into a third bowl adding in several drops of orange food coloring. Stir to mix the color throughout the white icing.
- Scoop about a third of the orange icing into a piping bag with a #2 tip to outline the cookie.
- With the remaining orange icing add 1-3 TBSP of water (start with 1 TBSP first as you want it to be thick and runny) If the icing does appear to be “soupy” then add 1/4 cup of powder sugar to thicken it.
- Spoon some of the thinner icing onto the cookie, spread this icing on the cookie, except for the pumpkin stem) using a knife or a candy bottle.
- Allow this to dry for about 30 seconds.
- Using the cookie in the picture as an example add the detail work on the pumpkins with the piping bag of orange icing. Allow the detail to dry for about 5 minutes.
- Scoop the brown icing into a piping bag with a #2 tip.
- Scoop the green icing into a piping bag with a #2 tip.
- Add the brown icing for the stem and the green icing for the vines on the top of the pumpkin. (Refer to the picture of the cookies for an example)
- Allow the icing on the cookie to dry for 5-10 hours.
Happy eating!
