For pumpkin.
Ok I am jumping on the bandwagon a bit late. For real. Starbucks started September 1st.
Sidebar: I SWEAR last year in October, BEFORE Halloween, one of the radio stations started playing Christmas music 24/7. I think it is a competition, who can start playing it the earliest. When does your holiday season begin? For me, HOLIDAYS start sometime in November. CHRISTMAS starts after Thanksgiving. I may have shopped before, but I love to enjoy Thanksgiving, then Christmas.
For me, pumpkin starts now.
I made some pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. So delish. They are like tiny cakes.
My husband doesn’t like pumpkin. I hear it’s a fairly common thing? I cannot relate.
I use this in my cookies:
For those of you that cannot tell what that is (due to my lack of education on taking photos), it is Pumpkin Pie Spice from Trader Joe’s.
I also really like to use Trader Joe’s canned pumpkin.
But in this case I used Libby’s.
I do love all things pink.
This time, I used white flour, unlike here.
I also added cinnamon with that pumpkin spice.
I also use half a banana. Because I like them.
This is the pumpkin mixture pre-flour addition:
I wanted to gobble it up.
Do you know what drives me crazy? When Giada and Ina and Paula don’t scrape the bowl and whisk clean. I am sure they do when they’re not filming. But when I’m watching and they pour the batter in the pan/sheet, etc, it drives me batty that they leave batter in the bowl. A good amount of it, too.
My mother and grandmother would kill them.
I wanted to lick this clean:
Who is saying I didn’t?
I added some chocolate of course.
Don’t you just want to eat that dough ball – raw eggs and all?
As we all know, I’m a cheater:
I also don’t use a cute little scooper to put the batter on the pan. I use a spoon.
A very regular spoon.
What I am was always yelled at for doing now when I was young:
Opening the over mid-bake. I know it’s wrong. Please skip the lectures.
These come out perfectly, like small cake-like lumps full of chocolate.
This baby with all the chocolate is mine.
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
2 eggs
1 cup sugar
1/2 mashed banana
1/2 cup canola oil
1 cup canned pumpkin
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
1 cup chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 350. Beat eggs and sugar until light and fluffy. Stir in oil, pumpkin, banana and vanilla. Stir in dry ingredients. Fold in chocolate chips. Bake for about 12 minutes.
Ahhhhh…peace.
The bad news: the cookie jar is almost empty again. There are only 2 of us in the house, and we know who doesn’t like pumpkin. Crap.
Hooraaaay for pumpkin! 🙂
Love it!
Hahaha I hate when it’s obvious that you’re the cookie culprit by process of elimination 😦
Totally!
Same thing happens at our house. Sometimes 3 FULL WEEKS go by and my husband says, “Hey, what happened to all the cookies?” (I want to-but don’t- answer,”Well, DUH! Cookies are best eaten when they’re fresh. So I ate ’em when they were fresh.”) This from a man who’d rather eat LICORICE than cookies!!
Ugh! My husband would rather eat chicken breast than chocolate. I think he is insane!
Those look so good!
I have a feeling they would disapear quickly in my house!
They are going fast here….
Those look good. I am trying to imagine how they taste…
I’m not a huge pumpkin fan, but I think these might convert me!
Blessings-
Amanda
Great post. I love pumpkin, cookies, and chocolate chip cookies too!
Thought you might be interested in the cookie contest/giveaway I’m hosting on my site. The winner get’s to choose the Betty Crocker Cookie Book of his/her choice…
My motto is that one can never have too many cookies or cookie cookbooks.
Mmm those pumpkin cookies look yummy:)
Octoberish starts when the wind starts to blow for me, and then Thanksgiving starts November 1, and Christmas November 1 too. I like the anticipation though, and I’m not one to enjoy opening presents on the 25th – I’d rather never open them and keep that exciting feeling all year!
I so agree with you. I wish we could enjoy the anticipation all yr long. 🙂
Hmmm, now I wonder if I’ve got any pumpkin in the pantry. Yum! And I agree, Christmas doesn’t start till after Thanksgiving, but pumpkin starts in September!
I’m really liking your blog! I’ll have to put these on my “cookies I must bake” list.
Thanks! The cookies are delish!
Pumpkin chocolate chip is one of my favorite combinations!
Libby’s is my favorite 🙂 I need to stock up now..tis the season!
I just discovered the pumpkin pie spice! I used to always by the mccormick one that as $5 for about 1/3 of the amount. What a rip off! I can’t believe I used to spend that much money on pumpkin pie spice when good ole TJ’s had it for $1.99
I felt the same! Like I was scammed for buying it at the grocery store. TJ’s is the best!!
I’m loving the pumpkin…the framed wrestlers…not so much!
Im with ya girl!
Those look delicious–I’m all about pumpkin right now!
what cool cookies and a fun post !
They are so yummy! Like mini cakes. You gotta try!
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