The weather here is still a warm, dry high 80’s to low 90’s with an occasional warm breeze. But I’m not letting that stop me from doing a little Fall celebrating. It’s been a while since I posted a recipe and I’ve got the perfect one today. Who doesn’t love pumpkin, chocolate chips and cookies… (crazy people, that’s who… only joking, mostly)?
PUMPKIN CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES
Ingredients:
– 3 1/2 cups flour
– 1 tsp baking soda
– 1/2 tsp salt
– 1/2 cup butter
– 2 cups pumpkin
– 1/2 cup applesauce
– 3/4 cup sugar
– 3/4 cup brown sugar
– 1 tsp vanilla
– 2 eggs
– 2 cups chocolate chips (I lie to put in half butterscotch chips sometimes… yum!)
Directions:
– Mix flour, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl.
– In a large bowl, mix butter, sugars, applesauce, pumpkin and vanilla.
– Add the eggs to the large bowl. Mix.
– Slowly add in the flour mix and combine until well mixed.
– Mix in the chocolate chips.
– Drop approximately 1 inch cookies on a lightly greased cookie sheet about 2 inches apart.
– Bake for 8-12 mins (depending on elevation and size of the cookies) at 350F.
– Remove from oven when a toothpick is inserted into the center of a cookie and comes out clean.
– Let cool and store in an airtight container. Keeps for a week, probably longer. They didn’t stick around much longer than that so I can’t vouch for that though. =)
