In September I already felt like I was becoming a pumpkin with the obscene amount of pumpkin treats I had been baking and devouring. I tried the pure deliciousness of Starbucks pumpkin cream cheese muffins, made a face when I tried a pumpkin spice latte sample (don’t tell them I did that…I’ll take the barista over the latte, thank you very much), chowed down on pumpkin bars and baked a billion pumpkin cinnamon rolls. Now that October is here, my kitchen looks like the section of Costco with the packs of Libby’s pumpkin. All I need now are some ladies handing out samples of blueberry muffins (why don’t they hand out samples of the muffins?!) and a section with giant sized chocolate cakes. Seriously, I live for Costco samples and the giant sized chocolate sheet cakes. Oh and pumpkin flavored desserts…they’re my life. (Next to bagels, cake and Costco samples)
For these cookies, you’ll need some of this delicious: Hershey’s Pumpkin Spice Kisses. Well you’ll actually need 1 1/2 packages. This recipe makes a lot of cookies. Enough to feed an army of squirrels.
Unwrap them (this may take a while…I watched Ghost Adventures reruns while doing this) and place them on a plate. Put them in the freezer for at least 30 minutes. Why you ask? Because these Kisses melt a lot faster than regular Hershey’s Kisses.
And because I’m extremely fascinated by these Pumpkin Spice Kisses, I had to cut one into half to show you the inside. Then I ate it.
Now moving along, sift together 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger, 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg and 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice. Set it aside.
In a bowl of a stand mixer, mix together 1/2 cup softened unsalted butter. 1 cup sugar and 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar on medium high speed for 4 minutes. Mmm there’s nothing quite like lots of butter and sugar. Absolutely nothing.
Then add in 1 large egg at room temperature and mix!
Add in 1 1/2 teaspoons of vanilla extract and 1 1/4 cups of pumpkin puree. Mix on medium speed to completely combine. Whenever I add pumpkin into a recipe I swear I mentally subtract it from my giant sized Costco pumpkin stock. 1 1/4 cups down…a billion cups to go!
It looks kind of funky right now but don’t you worry. It’ll turn out delicious.
Slowly add in the dry ingredients on low speed. Don’t mix the cookie dough to death. Then take a spatula and fold everything together.
Use a Tablespoon to scoop out the cookie dough. Then use a spoon to scoop the cookie dough out of the Tablespoon. Does that even make sense? 
I hope so! The cookie dough will be sticky.
Place the cookie dough balls onto the baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake them at 350 degrees F for 12 minutes.
Once the cookies are done baking, immediately press a Pumpkin Spice Kiss into the middle of each cookie. (By the way, these cookies are more cake like.)
Then right away, take the cookies off the baking sheet using a spatula and place them on a cooling rack. Let them cool before eating them or the Pumpkin Spice Kiss will ooze all over. It firms back up once they’ve cooled.
Pumpkin Spice Kiss Cookies
(adapted from allrecipes)
makes about 65 cookies
1 1/2 packages Hershey’s Pumpkin Spice Kisses
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 cup white sugar
1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
1 1/4 cups canned pumpkin puree
1 egg
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Line a couple of baking sheets with parchment paper. Set aside.
Unwrap the Pumpkin Spice Kisses. (about 65 of them) Place them in the freezer for at least 30 minutes. This is important because the Pumpkin Spice Kisses melt much faster than the regular Kisses.
Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, kosher salt, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and allspice. Set aside.
In a bowl of a stand mixer with the paddle attachment, mix together the butter, sugar and light brown sugar on medium high speed for 4 minutes until light and fluffy.
Add in the egg and mix to combine.
Then add in the vanilla extract and the pumpkin. Mix on medium speed for a couple of minutes.
Slowly add in the dry ingredients on low speed. Mix until it’s almost combined.
Take a spatula and fold the ingredients together.
Using a Tablespoon, scoop the cookie dough. Then use a spoon to scoop the dough out of the Tablespoon. The cookie dough will be sticky so don’t worry. Place the cookie dough balls onto the baking sheets lined with parchment paper.
Bake at 350 degrees F for 12 minutes.
Once the cookies come out of the oven, press a Pumpkin Spice Kiss in the middle of each cookie.
Immediately (and carefully!) remove the cookies from the baking sheet with a spatula and cool them on a cooling rack.
Note: These cookies have a cake like texture.
Those look Amazing.
I love Costco. I was just in there the other day for one or two things and about three hundred dollars later I finally made it out of there. The place is just too tempting. Although I don’t sample. Purely for tummy issue reasons, not that I don’t want to or sometimes sit on their floor and bawl like a toddler because I can’t eat the goodness. Anyhow, these are some cute and delicious cookies. You never fail to impress me. So much creativity. Love it.
I must say, and I don’t say stuff like this often, that’s a pretty cookie!
I didn’t know they had pumpkin spice kisses out. My wife will love those!
Lordy lordy, I had not seen those Pumpkin Spice Kisses and now I am pretty sure I have to go hunt them down!
You and the rest of the blogosphere all have a stash of Libby’s enough to keep their stock high
And that carrot cake from yesterday’s post…oh, wow. I need that too!
I agree with you – nothing like creamed butter and sugars! I seriously didn’t know that these kisses existed but they sound amazing. Can’t wait to scope them out. The pumpkin recipes have been great this year. I love these cookies too!
I love those kisses! So fun. These cookies are awesome. A must try!
Sorry I haven’t commented in awhile! These look so fun!
Mmhm, I had no clue these kisses existed! Love how you press the kiss into the cookie and it just happily sits there
My pumpkin baking soulmate, this recipe looks/sounds amazing! Thanks for posting. And I agree I think they should be handing out muffins all the time! I’ll have to see if I can find said pumpkin kisses her in NYC. They may be an uber special commodity during Halloween. Funny enough I’m baking pumpkin cookies right now. My apartment smells awesome!
I love Costco! There isn’t one near enough to us to make it worth while, but they are amazing! I love how creative you are with your recipes…it would never have occurred to me to make a pumpkin kiss cookie (of course with my cinnamon allergy I can’ – but it still wouldn’t occur to me!)
OH.MY.GOD. Pumpkin spice Hersheys kisses?! I must find these!! And I loooove cookies with the kisses in the middle, I have a recipe for almond ones!
The cookies look awesome, I would totally devour them.
….are you kidding me. Pumpkin spice hershey’s kisses?????? America. Is. Awesome. I shoulda made dad get some while he visited xD
Yum! These look great!! I love anything pumpkin!! I never saw those Hershey Kisses, I’m probably best off that I haven’t!
What a fabulous twist on a Christmas classic. This looks like a wonderful Halloween treat. Thank you for taking the time to share it with me. I’m sipping on tea and about to start on breakfast…I wish I had something like this to start my day with (but in one way, I do!) I hope you have a great week.
These are such cute cookies, perfect for the season!
I didn’t know that they had pumpkin spice kisses. These are cute!
I have never seen those particular Hershey’s Kisses before!
Now I really need to find these kisses! I hope Target still has them this week.
What a great idea to put pumpkin spice kisses on pumpkin cookies. Yum!
These cookies are so cute! I haven’t tried those kisses yet, but I really need to!
Wow! I didn’t even know there were pumpkin spice kisses! I must be living under a rock haha! These sound awesome though! Love the idea of a pumpkin kiss cookie!
Another fantastic recipe! Well done
You are killing me with these cute desserts..Really cool idea and awesome photos! congrats on top 9!!!
Thank you!
You know you are a hardcore baker when you get ingredients at Costco!!
Yea!!
LOL!! Your comment totally made my day
What!! I had no idea there were pumpkin spice kisses! This is amazing news to me! Great cookies
Yum!!! How did I not know about these kisses? I hope I can get some post-Halloween clearance action on those!
That looks so very delicious! I think I’d go through the batch way, way too fast.
Congrats on Top 9!
Oh, yes…I give you my full approval of these marvelous cookies!!! Another winner…yum, yum!
Somehow I have never tried a pumpkin kiss!
I think as soon as I move into my new apartment I am going to reserve an entire shelf JUST for pumpkin:-)
I didn’t know about these kisses either? Are you sure that you don’t work for the marketing Dept. of Hershey’s Chocolate?, lol Another yummy pumpkin recipe. Congrats on the Top 9 today!
Yum Linds. The best of both worlds….pumpkin cookies and candy. I’m in!
xoxo
Heather
I have never heard of Pumpkin Spice Kisses, but I must have them! I’ve never been to a Costco, and I’m not sure if I can find those kisses in good ‘ole small town USA!
I did find some Pumpkin Spice Marshmallows and I made some yummy treats with those, so I will keep my fingers crossed and seek out some pumpkin kisses!
Wow these look great! And I never knew they made pumpkin spice Hershey Kisses! That’s freaking awesome
YUM, love this idea. Cannot wait to try these!
Sigh. I love your photographs! These look delicious, I love that you used pumpkin kisses!
Thank you Kaitlin
I haven’t tried these pumpkin Hershey kisses, but these cookies just might get me to buy a bag! They look so yummy!
Just made these today, and they are absolutely delicious! If anyone is hesitating, go out and buy a bag of the pumpkin spice Kisses before they are discontinued until next fall.
I found the cookie a bit sweet for my taste and may cut back on the white sugar next time. I also dropped scoops of batter into a mini-muffin pan (sprayed with Baker’s Joy) and so ensured perfect shapes. Done in 9 minutes in my oven.
Also, I ran out of pumpkin spice Kisses before I ran out of batter (and yes, it is more batter than dough). I had a bag of CANDY CORN Kisses and used those to finish the batch. They were equally delicious.
Thank you for a great treat. (They are going to school with my third grader tomorrow so I don’t, ahem, ‘taste test’ the entire 4 dozen.)
Love the idea of using a mini muffin pan, I’ll have to try that next time. And candy corn kisses sound soooo good with these cookies.
I’m so glad you enjoyed them and thank you for commenting!