Pumpkin Cookie Recipe?
Hi there...DCHound looking for an excellent pumpkin cookie recipe. This past weekend I had a good pumpkin cookie, but it wasn't the "cakey" pumpking cookie you normally find. This one had more of a typical choc chip cookie texture (and even better, had chocolate chips in it).
Anyone have anything that fits this?
Thanks so much for the help!
JoyHC97
Sep 25, 2006 07:57PM
This is the recipe I make every fall. I actually always use chocolate chips, but my friend who gave me the recipe years ago made it with raisins.
1 cup sugar
1 cup canned pumpkin
1/2 cup shortening
1 TB grated orange peel
2 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp salt (I use low sodium)
1/2 cup EITHER (not both) chocolate chips or raisins, depending on your taste
preheat oven to 375. mix sugar, pumpkin, shortening & peel. stir in flour, b. powder, b. soda, cinn, and salt. stir in raisins or choc chips. drop onto ungreased cookie sheet. bake 8-10 minutes, until light brown, & remove right away from cookie sheet to cooling rack.
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Your recipe sounds great. Can you substitute margarine for shortening? Thank you.
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pumpkin oatmeal cookies
2 cups whole wheat pastry flour*
1 1/3 cups organic rolled oats*
1 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon freshly-ground nutmeg
1/2 cup raw sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
just under 2/3 cup canola oil
2 tablespoons molasses (coat tablespoon with some oil beforehand; molasses will slide off nicely - thanks for the tip, martha!)
1 cup canned organic pumpkin, or cooked pureed pumpkin
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 tablespoon ground flax seeds
1 cup walnuts, finely chopped
1 cup raisins or chopped dried bing cherries (the bing cherries make them really, really good)
preheat oven to 350.
mix together flour, oats, baking soda, salt and spices.
in a separate bowl, mix together sugar, oil, molasses, pumpkin, vanilla and flax seeds until very well combined. add dry ingredients to wet in 3 batches, folding to combine. fold in walnuts and raisins/dried bing cherries.
drop by tablespoons onto greased (i used silpat) cookie sheets. they don't spread very much so they can be placed only an inch apart. flatten the tops of the cookies with a fork or with your fingers, to press into cookie shape. bake for 20 minutes at 350. if you are using two sheets of cookies on 2 levels of your oven, rotate the sheets halfway through for even baking. you'll have enough batter for 4 trays.
remove from oven and get cookies onto a wire rack to cool.
*i like bob's red mill organic products.
adapted from http://www.theppk.com/recipes/dbrecip...
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Hi there,
Both of these sound great! Would love to know if anyone could tell me how well they last. I was thinking of baking a batch and mailing to a friend but wondered whether they'd hold up for a week or so....
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