These were very yummy. My husband and kids ate them up very quickly!
The dough is extremely sticky and hard to work with, I found that sticking the bowl in the fridge in between cooking batches, helps to form the balls. The sugar dusting made it possible for the cookies to be made into balls (globs). But it also make the cookies have a flakier exterior. I think I'd prefer to use a spoon next time to make globs onto the cookie sheet and let them look a little irregular but have softer textures. They were very soft though inside, and still yummy days later -saved in a ziploc bag. With those new ideas, I will for sure make these again! Also I couldn't find "pumpkin flavored" kisses so I just used regular. Very yummy still.
I doubled the recipe, because in my book, every cookie recipe should be at least doubled! :)
Pumpkin Spice Cookies
1 box Spice Cake mix
15 oz can canned Pumpkin
1/4 T. pumpkin pie spice
1 bag of unwrapped Pumpkin Spice Kisses
cinnamon-sugar
Or, to be like me:
2 boxes Spice Cake mix
29 oz. can canned pumpkin
etc.
Heat oven to 350. Mix the cake mix, pumpkin and pumpkin pie spice together in a bowl. Spoon balls of dough into cinnamon-sugar and roll around creating round balls. Place on a cookie sheet and bake for 12-14 min. (I put about 20 balls on each sheet)
Remove cookies from the oven and quickly place on rolled out aluminum foil spread over your counter. (Be sure to remove from the pan quickly, to avoid sticky tar mess I had to deal with on one batch.) Place a kiss into each cookie middle. You can also hurry and put them into the fridge right after if the kisses are melting down, to avoid melting them!
