Monday, October 1, 2012

Pumpkin Cookies

When October rolls around my kids know that it's time to make Pumpkin Cookies. I grew up making these adorable treats with my mother, and now I'm continuing the tradition with my own children. One thing that I do differently than my mom is that I use chocolate chips for the faces while she used raisins. In my opinion raisins don't belong anywhere near cookies. Sorry raisin lovers! Switching to chocolate saves me the trouble of picking those nasty raisins off of my cookies.


I've switched up the ingredients from her original recipe to make them just a tad healthier too. It's what I do.

Pumpkin Cookies

1cup pasteurized egg product
1&1/3 cups canola oil
4 tsp vanilla
2 cups all purpose flour
2 cups white whole wheat flour
4 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 batch of buttercream frosting
chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

Mix eggs, oil and vanilla in large bowl. Add dry ingredients and mix well.

Drop dough by rounded tablespoons onto greased baking sheet.


At the top of each circle of dough, drop a small amount of dough to be the stem.


Bake for about 9 minutes, or until very lightly browned on the bottom.

Allow to cool and then frost with tinted buttercream frosting. Add faces out of chocolate chips (or raisins).

Yields about 4 dozen large cookies

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  1. Amy of While Wearing HeelsOctober 1, 2012 at 10:05 PM

    I love that you changed your mom's recipe ever so slightly. I agree completely, they are much better off with chocolate chips :)

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    1. UnknownOctober 1, 2012 at 10:09 PM

      I know! I think my mom was doing her own version of the healthy mom thing with the raisins. Sadly that just turned me off of raisins for good.

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  2. stephen HayesOctober 1, 2012 at 10:19 PM

    Do you take MasterCard, and do you deliver?

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    1. UnknownOctober 6, 2012 at 10:10 AM

      Shucks, if only I had a commercial kitchen at home!

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  3. ~*~MizTink~*~October 1, 2012 at 11:12 PM

    One of my favorite photos I see on Facebook from time to time says this: "Raisins that look like chocolate chips are the #1 reason I have trust issues." I have to say, I agree ;) LoL Raisins should NEVER be in cookies (unless of course you like that sort of thing). Due to an over-abundance of them as a child, I no longer eat raisins....I can't even stand their smell :(

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    1. UnknownOctober 6, 2012 at 10:11 AM

      I'm the same way about raisins, but I try not to impose my feelings on my kids. Except of course, when it comes to putting them in cookies.

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  4. EmmyOctober 2, 2012 at 11:35 PM

    Cute!!! And so agree about the raisins!

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    1. UnknownOctober 6, 2012 at 10:12 AM

      Thanks! Chocolate is usually better than raisins!

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  5. AnonymousOctober 4, 2012 at 7:12 PM

    Okay, I'm worst Mom's Mom (worst Nana?). Worst Mom's Dad loved raisins in everything so that was the reason for the raisins! Worst Mom puts chocolate chips in everything...I remember when she took our Irish Soda Bread recipe and replaced the raisins with chocolate chips Her Dad could not believe she did that!:)

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    1. UnknownOctober 6, 2012 at 10:14 AM

      Hi Mom! Ah memories! I seem to recall my sister was involved in the chocolate chip bread incident too. I learned from it though, just as you have hopefully learned to just say no to raisins on cookies!

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  6. UnknownOctober 8, 2012 at 2:50 PM

    So cute! And the chocolate chips would be a hit around here too :)

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    1. UnknownOctober 22, 2012 at 8:54 PM

      Thanks! Kids really have fun decorating them too!

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