Nice Pumpkin Oatmeal Cream Pies

I’m a large fan of oatmeal cream pies. Always guide maintain been. Growing up, I got the famous Little Debbie snack perchance in i trial every few years. I would ever enquire for them at the grocery store, but my mom was never i to purchase cookies – if my household unit of measurement got baked cookies, they were ever homemade.

And straightaway I sympathize why… I mean, guide maintain you lot ever read the listing of ingredients on the dorsum of a Little Debbie box?

But that doesn’t halt my occasional craving for them! So instead of buying a box, I guide maintain the fourth dimension to brand my own! And I guide maintain even then to run across anyone who doesn’t similar them.

This process consists of 2 chewy as well as buttery oatmeal cookies sandwiched alongside a creamier version of my favorite buttercream frosting!

And since it’s fall, I decided to brand these cookies festive as well as create total them alongside a pumpkin buttercream! Mmmm inwards my opinion, everything is ameliorate alongside pumpkin!

Pumpkin Oatmeal Cream Pies

Yield: Makes nearly 10 cream pies

For the Oatmeal Cookies

• 1 as well as 2/3 cups rolled oats
• 1 loving cup all-purpose flour (125 grams)
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon dry reason cinnamon
• 1 as well as 1/4 loving cup packed brownish saccharide (258.75 grams)
• 1/2 loving cup salted butter, softened to room temperature
• 1 large egg
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

For the Pumpkin Buttercream

• 1/2 loving cup butter, softened to room temperature
• 1 Tablespoon pumpkin puree
• 1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 cups powdered sugar

Directions

For the Oatmeal Cookies

1. Combine the oats, flour, baking soda, as well as cinnamon inwards a medium bowl as well as laid aside.
2. In or then other bowl, cream the brownish saccharide as well as butter.
3. Add the egg as well as vanilla extract until to the bowl as well as mix until well-combined.
4. Slowly add together the dry out ingredients as well as mix until merely combined – create non overmix.
5. Chill the dough for at to the lowest degree i lx minutes (or upwardly to 1 day) inwards the refrigerator. Cookies volition live on really apartment if the dough is non mutual frigidness -- then don't skip this step.
6. Preheat oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit. Roll 2 teaspoons of dough into a ball as well as identify onto prepared sheet. 
7. Bake for 8 minutes as well as allow cool on cookie canvas for a infinitesimal or 2 earlier transferring to a wire rack.

For the Pumpkin Buttercream

1. While the cookies are cooling, gear upwardly the buttercream.
2. Beat the softened butter for 2 minutes.
3. Add pumpkin puree as well as crunch again.
4. Add pumpkin pie spice as well as vanilla extract as well as mix again.
5. Slowly add together powdered saccharide until you lot hit your desired consistency. You tin ever add together to a greater extent than powdered saccharide to the buttercream if it is non theater enough.

Assembly

1. Spread a generous amount of pumpkin buttercream to the underside of a cooled cookie.
2. Sandwich or then other cookie on top.
3. Store cookie inwards airtight container inwards refrigerator.

Oatmeal cookie recipe adapted from Sally's Baking Addiction.