Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

I have a fabulous recipe for all of you, one of my all time favorite cookies – pumpkin chocolate chip cookies.

This recipe comes from an old cook book from my great grandmother’s church.

It’s a really simple recipe and the cookies are soft, moist, and delicious!  Everyone I’ve ever made these for falls in love with them.

Gather all of the ingredients: flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, sugar, butter, vanilla, egg, cinnamon, pumpkin (fresh cooked or canned), and chocolate chips.  The recipe calls for nuts but I just add more chocolate chips because more chocolate makes everything better!

I don’t have pictures of the normal cream butter and sugar, sift dry ingredients because I got impatient and wanted to eat the cookie dough… oops

After you’ve mixed everything up drop them on a cookie sheet (the dough isn’t as thick as normal cookie dough, and it’s pretty sticky) , pop ’em in the oven, and wait about 10 minutes.

Then take them out and enjoy!

Recipe

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

Yields 3 dozen cookies

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cups sugar

1 stick butter

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 1/2 cups flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 cup fresh cooked or canned pumpkin

1 cup chocolate chips (I use semi-sweet, but I’m sure any kind would be delicious)

1 cup nuts (or an additional 1 cup of chocolate chips)

– Preheat oven to 350°

– Cream together the butter and sugar, then beat in egg and vanilla

– Stir together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt

– Alternate adding dry ingredients and pumpkin to the butter/sugar mixture

– Then stir in the chocolate chips and nuts

– Drop by spoonful onto greased cookie sheets

– Bake at 350° for 10-12 mintues