Day 12 of 30 Days of Cookies - Pumpkin Spice Snickerdoodles

Ingredients

• 1 3/4 cup whole wheat flour
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp cream of tartar
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
• 2 TB butter, softened
• 2 TB Greek  yogurt
• 1 TB honey or maple syrup (optional)
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 TB ground flax seed
• 3 TB water
• 1/4 cup pumpkin puree
• 3+ TB sugar (for rolling dough in)

Directions

• Preheat oven to 375.
• Combine flour, baking soda and cream of tartar in a bowl.
• Combine 1 cup of sugar, butter and yogurt in a bowl.  Add pumpkin puree.  Beat with mixer until well blended.  Add honey, vanilla, egg, flax and water and beat well.
• Add flour mixture to wet mixture,  mixing until just combined.
• Cover and chill 10 minutes.
• Roll tablespoonfuls into balls and roll in sugar.
• Place on baking sheet lined with Silpat and flatten slightly with fork.
• Bake for about 10 minutes.  Let cool about 2 minutes on sheet and then remove to cooling rack.