One of my favorite parts of reading blogs is looking forward to compelling series—content publish around a centralized theme at pretty typical intervals. Like Motherhood Around the World on Cup of Jo. So, so good. This isn’t Motherhood Around the World, but it’s what I’ve got right now—Feels Like Friday. Because Friday is a good day. It’s a good day to congratulate yourself on a good week. It’s also a good day to forgive yourself if you straight-armed your toddler into her jacket and boots, aggressively strapped her into her car seat, and breathed a sigh of relief that she was going to school approximately three out of five days of the week (hypothetically).
To celebrate our first Feels Like Friday, I bring you the easiest Pumpkin Chip Cookie Recipe. Roll right on into the weekend with these easy, “can eat them all weekend and really they’re a health food because they have pumpkin” cookies.
Pumpkin Chip Cookies
Makes: a lot. (4 dozen). You can halve it, but then you’d be left with a half of a can of pumpkin which is both sad and wasteful. Make them all.
Ingredients:
1 15 oz. can pumpkin
2 eggs, beaten
1 cup oil (olive, canola, etc.)
1.5 cups sugar
2½ tsp. vanilla extract
4 cups flour
4 tsp. of baking powder
1½ tsp. baking soda
½ tsp. salt
2 tsp. cinnamon
Pinch of nutmeg
Semi-sweet chocolate chips (as many as you like. 2 cups? Be generous).
Preheat your oven to 350. Combine the pumpkin, eggs, oil, sugar, and extract into one bowl. Stir well. In a separate bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Stir that well, too. Dump the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and mix until well blended. Stir in chocolate chips.
Scoop out cookie-sized dollops of batter (sorry! Bigger than a golf ball, smaller than a….squash ball?…) onto a well-greased cookie sheet and bake for 15-18 mins in a 350 degree oven. Let cool on a cookie rack.
p.s. really wanted to share this image, entitled ‘toddler feeling like Friday in her fully coordinated outfit.’ This isn’t really the point of this post—it’s really about Pumpkin Chip Cookies. I’m just not sure what will engage you all—pics of my kid, pics of food, pics of my kid eating food. Discuss.
