Apple Spice Leaf Cookie
I just love decorated cookies. These cute cookies are shaped likes fall leaves and taste like Apple Spice. The fall leaves are beautiful here in Virginia where I live. I love going over to the Appalachian Mountains this time of year and taking a hike. The colors you see are just mesmerizing.
These Apple Spice Leaf Cookies are very simple to make and you can use a simple round cookie cutter if you’re short on time, then just decorate with different colored icing.

Apple Spice Fall Leaf Cookie
Servings 8 cookies
Ingredients
- 2 C unsalted sweet cream butter softened
- 1 C sugar
- 1 C light brown sugar
- 1/4 C pumpkin puree
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp apple pie spice
- 5 C flour + 2 C to roll the dough
- 1 tsp salt
- Cookie Cutter: Variety of leaf cookie cutters
Icing ingredients:
- 4 egg whites
- 1/2 tsp cream of tarter
- 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 4 1/2 C powder sugar
- Orange Brown, pink, black and golden yellow gel food coloring
- 5 disposable piping bags fitted with a number 2 tip
- 3 squeeze bottles
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper
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Using a standing mixer, cream the butter and 2 sugars together
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Add pumpkin purée and eggs while slowly mixing.
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Add vanilla extract and mix.
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In a large bowl, mix together the 5 cups of flour apple pie spice and salt until combined
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Gradually mix in the dry ingredients until combined
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Scoop dough out onto a floured surface
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Knead in 1/2 C of flour
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Roll out dough to 1/8 inch in thickness
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Cut out shapes and place onto cookie sheet 2 inches apart
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Place cookie sheet into the oven and bake for about 8-10 minutes
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Remove from oven and allow to cool completely
Royal Icing Directions:
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Using the standing mixer, combine the egg whites, cream of tarter, vanilla and powder sugar and mix until combined and stiff peaks form
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Split icing into 5 bowls
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Add a few drops of Orange into one of the bowls
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Add a few drops of brown into the second bowl
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Add a few drops of golden yellow into the third bowl
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Add a few drops of pink into the fourth bowl
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Add a few drops of black into the fifth bowl
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Mix until the colors are blended and the shades you want
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Scoop about 1/4 C of icing into their own bags
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Add 2-4 tsp of water into the remaining brown, orange and yellow icing bowls and mix until combined
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Pour the icing's into squeeze bottles
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Outline the leaf cookies like shown in the sample image
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Fill in the cookies with the thinned icing colors
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Allow to dry completely over night
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Using the black piping bag, pipe the details of the faces onto the cookies
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Using the pink icing, pipe pink dots for the cheeks
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Allow to dry for one hour before enjoying!
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