Well. It looks like I got lucky on
this one.
I had to make cookies yesterday, and
decided that I wanted to cash in on pumpkin mania by making pumpkin
chocolate-chip cookies. I mean, think of it this way—it's fall, so
pumpkins are in season right now, and it's chocolate, which is, you
know, CHOCOLATE, so I figured I couldn't go wrong. And with two
small exceptions, I didn't.
The first occurred when I bought the
can of pumpkin for the cookies last weekend at a local grocery store
(the same trip that led to my finding the $10 in the recycling bin I
wrote about yesterday). Because I don't buy pumpkin that often, and
because the store at which I was shopping was recently remodeled, I
had a bear of a time actually finding the pumpkin. I figured it
would be with canned vegetables; I was wrong. I then guessed it
would be in with the rest of the canned fruit (pumpkin, of course,
being a fruit. Once again, I was wrong.
If you're curious, I finally found it
in the baking aisle with the flour and sugar. Go figure. But at
least now I know.
I found a recipe that I could
(hopefully) adapt to become a pumpkin chocolate-chip cookie, and
mixed everything up. When I finished, the dough looked a
little...thin, for the lack of a better word. So I kept adding small
amounts of flower and oatmeal, hoping that it would work out. And it
eventually did. The only problem? Well, as I found out when baking,
a recipe that should've made three dozen cookies ended up making four
dozen. Although now that I think about it, that really isn't as
problem so much as it was a hidden treasure.
I guess not all problems are bad
problems!
Someone once told me that I need to
post more recipes of my little “experiments” in here, so without
further ado...
Mix a cup of butter, 3/4ths of a cup of
white sugar, and 3/4ths of a cup of brown sugar. Add a teaspoon of
vanilla, a cup of pumpkin, and an egg. In a separate bowl, mix two
and a half cups of flour, a cup of oatmeal, a teaspoon of baking
soda, a teaspoon of cinnamon, and a teaspoon of nutmeg. Throw it in
the wet mixture and, well, mix. When done, add as many chocolate
chips as you'd like (I used most of a bag, but that's just me).,
Heat your oven to 350, bake for 12 minutes until brown, cool, and
eat.
And eat as many as you'd like, because
they're really, really good. Just don't forget where you can find
your pumpkin at the grocery store!
8-)
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