The thing about using fruit and agave as substitutes for sugar is that sugar is a great flavor enhancer. When you omit sugar from a recipe, you are also omitting some of the flavor. That needs to be replaced with spices or other rather strong flavored things. These pumpkin spice cookies use pumpkin, applesauce and agave to sweeten them. The Cinnamon and cloves helps add the flavor and the sugar free cream cheese filling makes them extra special. OK, this is stating the obvious. Sugar-free does not necessarily mean good for you. This cream cheese frosting is full of fat. If that concerns you, then don't fill your cookies. I really like this recipe because there is so little fat in the cookie and you have so much nutrition in the pumpkin and applesauce and wheat flour. You can substitute about 3/4 cup of wheat flour with 3/4 cup of buckwheat flour for added nutrition. Very yummy, and it is a shame to call them cookies. I sometime like to call them "little healthy snacks." But my children like them to be called cookies. To make them sinfully delicious, add about 2 cups of chocolate chips before baking them.
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