By no means am I Susie Homemaker, or even a fan of baking (well, if someone else cleans up I sure am) and to be honest with you, I am not a huge fan of pumpkin stuff, pie, cookies, biscuits, etc. But my husband is a pumpkin FANATIC!
This time of year, I kid you not, this man could sit down with an entire pumpkin pie, and eat the entire thing alone. So when I came across a recipe for pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, I could not resist. Plus, it gives him something to bring to work to snack on.
Ingredients :
A Picture of the cookie dough all mixed
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter (softened)
1 cup white sugar
1 cup light brown sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup pumpkin puree
3 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
2 cups chocolate chips
I edited the recipe slightly from its original form to kind of suit our taste. But believe me it is delicious!
Pre-Heat your oven to 350 degrees.
First I took the butter and melted it, and mixed the eggs in with it. All the “wet ingredients” in one bowl. WOW! Two sticks of butter, bring on the heart attack right?
Then I mixed all of the “dry ingredients” in a separate bowl to make it a little easier to mix everything together in the end.
Mmmmm Chocolate chips! Two cups was just the right amount!
Mind you the pumpkin may not look all that yummy since most pumpkin puree comes out of a can, but believe me, it is good!
Once you have them all mixed together in their separate bowls mix the wet mix in with the dry mix. Mix in my hand first, then bring out the big guns, and use a mixer, it makes the cookie dough easier to work with.
Make sure you mix the dough to the point where you no longer see any of the dry ingredients actually dry in the bowl itself, if that makes any sense to you. Again, going back to the fact that chef is not in my list of trades. LOL
When everything is mixed well, it should look something like the picture to the right. Although again, it doesn’t look like the most appetizing thing, I promise it gets better, and well worth it!
Scoop the dough onto a greased cookie sheet, and make sure you leave enough room between each cookie for them to expand, becaus e these bad boys actually get big! The bigger the cookie the better right? Put in the oven for 15 minutes, 17 minutes at most, but they should be perfect by the time 15 minutes rolls around.
And TADA! Perfect, yummy, delicious, fall treat!
The Finished Product Mmmmmm
Then the best part of it all, is sharing them with your toddler who wants nothing to do with his actual lunch, and would rather eat mommies doocgies. LOL
Mommy these are Yummy! Now I am covered in Chocolate too!
The perfect fall treat!
