Favorite Pumpkin Cookie Recipe

Fall is here and out comes the pumpkin and other comfort foods recipes. Pumpkin is one of my favorite food ingredients and pumpkin cookies that are dipped in white chocolate are by far my favorite autumn comfort food. Know that my mom’s recipe never called for the chocolate, I came up with that extra ingredient all on my own. You bet I am a chocolate lover and pumpkin and white or semi-sweet chocolate is delicious.

Here is the recipe:

1 cup white sugar
1 cup light brown sugar
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup canned pumpkin puree
3 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice

1 cup unsalted butter, softened
2 cups (12-ounce bag) white or semi-sweet chocolate chips

**You will also need parchment paper to line cookie sheets or Pam non-stick baking spray

1. Combine flour, cinnamon and pumpkin pie spice in a medium bowl.
2. Beat sugar and butter in a large bowl until creamy.
3. Beat in pumpkin, egg, and vanilla extract until smooth.
4. Gradually stir in flour,baking soda and salt into the mixture by hand, then add the chocolate chips.
5. Drop by rounded tablespoons onto a baking sheets.
6. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes, or until the cookie edges are firm.
7. Let cool for 2 minutes, then remove to a wire rack

Here is a recipe for chocolate chip pumpkin cookies.  The look and the recipe sound easy and delicious.

Here are other recipes for Pumpkin cookies

Pumpkin Pie Cookie Recipe this is a classic recipe by Mccormick

Favorite pumpkin spice with cranberry cookies from food network...delicious

Favorite Peanut Butter Chocolate Cookies

When it comes to baking I like to make homemade cookies. Many of my made from scratch cookies start out with a basic recipe and then I add a little of this and a little of that. 

Baking cookies apron by Sgolis

 A few years ago my brother gave me the recipe for my mother's peanut butter cookie recipe and it was a good recipe but I did change it by adding the chocolate covered peanut butter morsels.  Oh, my gosh these cookies are delicious and are now my families favorite peanut butter cookie.

Use the back side of the fork to make an indent in peanut butter cookies

This cookie tastes good any time of the year. Peanut butter and chocolate are delicious comfort foods. I hope that you enjoy the recipe

For this recipe you will need the following:

• 1 cup granulated sugar
  1 cup brown sugar
  1 cup shortening Crisco vegetable shortening or 1 cup of softened salt-free butter
• 1 cup Smuckers Natural creamy or chunky peanut butter
  2 eggs
  A pinch of salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
  2 cups Hodgson Mill Organic unbleached organic all purpose flour
  2 teaspoons baking soda
• ½ cup of Nestle Toll House Delightfulls Milk chocolate morsels with peanut butter filling

1. With a mixer cream the sugar, with shortening or the butter then add the peanut butter, vanilla followed by the eggs.
2. Continue to beat on medium speed until the batter is smooth.
3. Add flour salt and baking soda and mix all ingredients well.
4. Mix in the chocolate peanut butter morsels with a spoon
5. Line the cookie sheet with parchment paper.
6. Drop the cookie dough by teaspoonful onto the parchment paper; space cookies two inches apart.
7. Use the back side of the fork to press down on the center of the cookies and to make the traditional indentation in the cookie tops.
8. Bake the peanut butter cookies at 375 for 10 minutes. Know the cookies are done by inserting a toothpick into the center of the cookie and pull out. If no batter is on the toothpick then cookies are done.
9. Let the cookies cool 10 minutes before serving.

Here is a gluten-free recipe for peanut butter cookies.  Enjoy!

Chewy Chocolate Walnut Cookie Recipe

When it comes to comfort food many people will reach for chocolate cookies.  There is nothing better than an oven baked  chocolate walnut cookie that melts in your mouth. They taste great when eaten when they are freshly baked and they are just as good served cold with a glass of milk. 

This cookie recipe is quick and easy to make and are the perfect treat for your family after a day in the park or working in the yard.  Serve this cookie with a scoop of vanilla ice-cream and your family’s cravings will be satisfied. 

My mother was a baker and as soon as the weather started to turn cool in the autumn season she would bake cookies for mid-day snacks.  I always looked forward to the chewy chocolate walnut cookies and recall thinking about them on way home from school.  Sometimes I would eat the cookies when they came out of the oven, other times they were served at room temperature. It didn't matter these cookies were always mmm good.

Brownie Chunk Cookies with Walnuts

Gather your ingredients for chocolate walnut cookie.

One Package of brownie mix (23-2/3 ounce

2 large eggs

1/3 Cup vegetable oil

6 ounces of semisweet chocolate morsels

½ cup of chopped walnuts

Pam baking spray with flour

Mixing bowl

Electric mixer

Teaspoon

Cookie Sheet

Cooling wire rack

Food storage container or cookie jar

Melted Chocolate  (optional)

Make this cookie recipe for the upcoming school week and you will have six dozen cookies to serve to your children and their friends for an after school snack. 

Recipe Instructions

1. Put your oven rack in the center and heat oven at 350F
2. Put the brownie mix, eggs and the oil to the mixing bowl and mix well with electric mixer.  Blend until batter is smooth with no brownie mix lumps.  Turn off the mixer and set it aside.  Add the chocolate morsels and the chopped walnuts and fold them into the batter. 
3. Spray Pam with flour onto the baking sheet to prevent cookies from sticking.
4. Use a teaspoon to measure out the cookie size.  Drop the rounded teaspoonful of cookie batter onto the cookie sheet.  Space the cookies two and half inches apart.
5. Bake the chocolate brownie cookies at for 12 minutes.  Before removing from the oven insert a toothpick into the center of the cookie.  Remove the toothpick and if there is not batter then cookies are done.
6. Set the baking sheet on a wire rack and cool the cookies.

Delicious Dessert Ideas

For a special treat melt milk chocolate morsels in a double boiler.  When the chocolate is completely melted dip one ½ of the cookies into the chocolate and the set on wax paper to cool.

Serve this cookie as a delicious parfait dessert.  Crumble cookie and put at the bottom of a parfait glass.  Next add a scoop of frozen vanilla ice-cream.  Then add another crumbled cookie, top again with ice cream.  Garnish the parfait with drizzled chocolate sauce and a dollop of whipped cream. Your family will wipe the parfait glass clean.

Here is a YouTube recipe for No-bake chocolate peanut butter cookies.   They sure look good!