Pumpkin cookies are a cake-y, spicey, and a luscious tribute to everything great about autumn. I’ve never met someone who doesn’t like pumpkin cookies. (I hope I do someday. That will mean more pumpkin cookies for me!) This recipe is a classicwith a delicious twist—a thin layer of sweet caramel icing. The pumpkin, caramel, and spices come together for bite after bite of cookie joy, not to mention the occasional chocolate chip that pops up. Be careful with these, they may blow the top on your happiness ceiling. Make a batch today.

Pumpkin Cookies

1 cup butter, softened
1 cup brown sugar, packed
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 15-ounce can pumpkin pureé
3 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ginger
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon salt

Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large mixing bowl, mix butter until light and fluffy. Add sugars and mix until smooth and creamy. Add in eggs, followed by vanilla and pumpkin. In a separate bowl, combine the remaining dry ingredients and stir well. Slowly add the flour mixture into the pumpkin mixture until you have a light, fluffy batter. Finally, stir in the chocolate chips without over mixing. Drop rounded tablespoons on a prepared cookie sheet and bake for 12-14 minutes, or until the edge of cookies is golden brown. Remove to a cooling rack and ice with Caramel Frosting while barely warm.

Caramel Frosting

3 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup brown sugar (dark brown sugar will produce a richer caramel flavor)
1/4 cup heavy cream
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups powdered sugar

Directions
In a saucepan over medium heat, combine butter, cream, and brown sugar. Stir occasionally until mixture comes to a boil. Remove from heat and cool in the refrigerator. Once cooled, whip powdered sugar in 1/2 cup at a time until frosting reaches desired consistency. Frost onto still-warm pumpkin cookies.

Not in the mood for baking? Check out our classic Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookie at our participating stores for a limited time. Find your local store on our website.

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We will select one winner per week and they will be featured on our Mrs. Fields Facebook Fan Page under our Fan of the Week tab as well as on our blog.  Each winner will receive a free 24 Nibblers® Filigree Box.   A new winner will be featured every Tuesday of each week.

By participating in the Contest and submitting your entry, you unconditionally agree and authorize Mrs. Fields and anyone that it may authorize, to use, publish, display and otherwise use your submission, photograph or other likeness, biographical information and statements concerning the Contest for purposes of advertising and promotion and other marketing efforts without compensation to you.

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Have you tried one of our Rainbow Chocolate Chip Cookies? These cookies launched last year and have quickly made their way to our bestseller list. Inspired by the popular M&M^® Sugar Butter cookies available in our franchise stores, these cookies are available in grocery and convenience stores across the country.

Loaded with mini M&M^® candies and semi-sweet chocolate chips, these soft, luscious cookies are a must-have for your Friday snack. Look for them in these grocery and convenience stores and treat yourself today:

• Walgreens
• Kroger
• Stop & Shop
• Giant
• Food Lion
• The Pantry
• Exxon Mobil
• Hess
• WAWA
• Sunoco
• Chevron
• Texaco West
• Pilot
• Kum & Go
• Circle K
• Flying J

If your local store(s) aren’t listed, ask your local grocery manager to get them in!

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On June 3, we opened shop inside Six Flags Magic Mountain in Los Angeles, California and on July 30, we opened a traditional store in the St. Louis Galleria in St. Louis, Missouri. If you’re in the area, please stop by and say hello!

Looking for a store near you? Use our store locator. Chances are, there’s one nearby.

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I’m very happy to announce that five new flavors of Mrs. Fields^® cookies are now available in select grocery stores across the nation! Look for these fabulous, delectable varieties:

Rainbow Chocolate Chip
Snickerdoodle
White Chunk Cranberry
Triple Chocolate
Butterscotch Oatmeal

Find some of all of these flavors at select Meijer, CVS, Walgreens, Harmons, Dan’s, A-Fresh Market, Smith’s, and Stop ‘n’ Shop stores, as well as all Kroger grocery chains starting in May. If you don’t find these cookies at your local grocery store, request them from the grocery manager–most stores are happy to order in products requested by customers.

And, how about some more good news? Today I’m giving away a carton of these cookies to three lucky readers! To enter, answer this extremely pressing question: Milk or no milk with your cookies?

(One entry/comment per person, please. Comments will be accepted until midnight Thursday, February 25. Winners will be announced on Friday, February 26.)

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If you’re going to brave the crowds on Friday, you might need some treats to maintain your shopping stamina. Here, take a coupon.

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Are you thinking what I’m thinking? Right. Cookies for lunch today! Grab a friend and share a smile.

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Find a participating store near you by clicking here.

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The Christiana Mall in Newark, Delaware has been undergoing some major renovations for the past several months. But instead of sawdust and sweat, the patrons of this busy mall now smell the intoxicating aroma of freshly baked cookies wafting through the air again. Talk about a welcome change! The old Mrs. Fields^® store was closed in May and reopened this month with a beautiful new store that now features Mrs. Fields^® and TCBY together. As area residents are flooding the mall for back-to-school essentials, the employees at Mrs. Fields^® are back-to-baking world-famous cookies and brownies for them—the longtime favorite refreshment of shoppers.

If you’re in the area, stop by for your own fresh-from-the-oven cookie or brownie. You’ll need the energy for all of the great tax-free shopping at Christiana Mall! Wait a minute—freshly baked cookies and tax-free shopping? There’s a word for that: heaven.

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