Hi Alivia,
We use salted butter in the recipe, but it depends on personal taste. Thank you for checking it out.

Hi Lindsay,
This recipe calls for store bought cream cheese frosting but if you’d like to purchase vanilla cream cheese frosting and add 1/2 teaspoon of pumpkin spice seasoning to it, you could do that, or if you want to make it homemade, here is what we use.

8 oz cream cheese room temperature
½ cup unsalted butter room temperature
2 cups confectioners’ sugar
2 teaspoons homemade pumpkin spice
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
In a mixer, beat the cream cheese and butter until well combined.
Gradually add the confectioners’ sugar.
Scrape down the bowl and add the pumpkin spice and vanilla. Mix thoroughly until combined.

Thank you so much for reading and for reaching out! I hope you enjoy the cookies.