Labor Day has come and gone, which means it's pumpkin spice season.
Pumpkin spice is a blend of cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, cloves and sometimes allspice that’s often put in pumpkin pie and other pumpkin desserts.
The famed Starbucks’ pumpkin spice latte that was launched across the country in 2004 was made without the orange gourd until 2015. It was all about the spices.
When it comes down to it, a pumpkin pie is really all about the spices, too. If you’ve ever tasted pumpkin from the can, you know it really doesn’t have much of a taste at all.
These pumpkin spice chocolate chip cookies contain a whole can of pumpkin puree, which means they also contain all of the great vitamins and nutrients that are found in pumpkin. Those include vitamin K, vitamin C and potassium.
I also love that this recipe used the whole can. So often pumpkin recipes don’t, meaning what's left sits in my fridge for a week while I think I’m going to use it, only to get tossed the next time I clean.
I wish someone would make pumpkin puree in a squeeze tube like they do tomato paste just for this reason.
This recipe came from the 1997 version of “Nestle Toll House Best-Loved Cookies” booklet, which features 70 recipes for cookies and bars. I was going to make the oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, but then I saw the “pumpkin spiced and iced cookies” and knew they’d be perfect for September.
I did change things up a bit. I like brown sugar paired with pumpkin and pumpkin spice, so I subbed that in for the white sugar. I left out the optional nuts because I didn’t have any, and I just skipped the whole glaze step.
Glaze just isn’t my jam. To me it’s sticky and has extra sugar. But I included the recipe for it because I know there are other people who like it.
The cookie dough is really soft — I usually roll my cookies into balls, but my hands were really sticky after doing one tray like that, so I just dropped the rest using two spoons. They don’t look quite as neat, but they taste just as yummy.
The resulting cookie is soft and spicy, and the chocolate chips play really well with the pumpkin, something I wasn’t sure would pair well together.
A great autumnal twist on a classic cookie.
The Link LonkSeptember 08, 2020 at 09:30PM
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