Guest post from Kristen Hamilton:
Perhaps some of you have seen the recipe floating around Pinterest this time of year for 3 ingredient pumpkin spice cookies. They looked so easy and delicious. Just one problem…I can’t eat wheat.
So I set about reformulating the recipe to be gluten free. It takes more than 3 ingredients to make it this way, but it’s still very easy and very delicious. The way I did it, they came out like pumpkin spice doughnut holes with icing glaze!
Easy Pumpkin Spice Treats
{They are wheat-free, gluten-free, egg-free, and dairy-free}
15 oz. yellow gluten-free cake mix
15 oz. can pure pumpkin puree (not pumpkin pie mix)
1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/8 tsp. ground nutmeg
1/8 tsp. ground cloves
1/8 tsp. ground ginger
Directions:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Spray some non-stick spray on a cookie sheet.
Mix the above ingredients. (I put the cake mix with the spices in the bowl of my stand mixer and made sure they were well combined. Then I added the pumpkin and mixed it up well.)
Drop by spoonfuls onto greased cookie sheet. Bake for about 12 minutes.
Cool on a wire rack.
Set the “cookies”/”doughnut holes” on waxed paper and drizzle icing over the tops. The icing will “set” within about a half hour.
Store in the refrigerator. But you can quickly pop them into the microwave for a couple seconds to warm them back up.
Powdered Sugar Icing:
1 cup sifted powdered sugar (make sure to use a gluten-free mixture)
1/4 tsp. vanilla extract
1 to 1 1/2 Tablespoon of milk (any variety, non-dairy is fine), orange juice, or water
Mix these up in a medium bowl with a spoon. Make sure it is drizzling consistency. Use the spoon to drizzle.
*If you wanted to add more texture or flavor, you can add nuts or chocolate chips into the dough. But I’m glad I didn’t because they turned out more like doughnut consistency and they were absolutely delicious by themselves.
Lovely with a cup of warm tea or coffee!
Enjoy the gorgeous Fall season.
Kristen Hamilton is a wife, mom of three girls, blogger at http://www.kristen-hamilton.com and contributor at Fancy Little Things, writer, and lover of Jesus. She lives in Pennsylvania, where she attends a MOPS group, reads, and spends lots of time in the kitchen.