A pumpkin cookie recipe because pumpkin flavored food = yummy
Submitted by wendy on October 27, 2008 - 12:33pm.
It's Halloween. Your kids like sweets and crafts. Anything tastes better pumpkin flavored. Pumpkin flavored food season officially began October 1st. Why not whip up a few batches of some tasty pumpkin cookies?
Halloween is anything but lacking in the sweets department. However, my favorite aunt who always made the most magnificent homemade everything for us kids growing up use to and still makes the most delicious jack-o lantern cookies each Halloween. Which I strongly feel if you are going to send your family into a sugar induced coma this Halloween you need to do it up right with these cookies. I asked her to please share her recipe with me because I live too far away from her now to enjoy her yummy cookies and I wanted to make these cookies with my own kids seeing that they have been a family tradition for me my entire life. Funny enough, her top-secret, highly coveted recipe was taken from a label she peeled off a can of Libby's pumpkin years ago. Not a big deal because these cookies called The Great Pumpkin Cookies are just so totally yummy. I don't know why the recipe is not available on Libby's site. However, I was able to find the recipe on Cooks.com. My aunt always adds chopped walnuts to half the recipe which I fully endorse because those nuts really bring something special to this cookie.
I made a batch of these cookies with my kids this last weekend and they taste just as I remember them tasting as a kid. My kids had a blast "helping" me prepare the dough and decorating the baked cookies. Although at one point my daughter decided the recipe we were following wasn't interesting enough so she took it upon herself to concoct her own questionable mixture which I was happy she did as it freed my son and I up to finish baking the actual cookies. Nine year olds, it turns out, are very helpful in the kitchen. And the recipe was a great mini lesson for my son practicing reading skills, measuring and fractions. The next day we decorated the cookies using this cookie frosting recipe from All Recipes.com that really hardened up quite nicely, candy corn, chocolate chips and colored cookie decorating frosting to transform the pumpkin shaped cookies into jack-o lanterns. We had the best time creating funny faces on our pumpkins. My 2 year old daughter's cookies have been placed in a special container because there's no real way of telling how much saliva she added to the cookies she decorated. All I do know is each time I looked up to see how she was doing she was either licking frosting off the palm of her hand or trading off placing one candy corn on her cookie and one in her mouth. Regardless of this disgusting things my tiny baker was doing to her cookies the kids fashioned some really cute pumpkin cookies. You can justify feeding you little trick-or-treaters these cookies because they do contain oatmeal, pumpkin and walnuts if you choose to add some. That cancels out the stick of butter and what seems like a pound of sugar you used to make them..right? The perfect cookie treat to munch on while enjoying "It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown".
