Andria Perry
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Autumn! This is pumpkin season and everything pumpkin is around so why not make a batch of these soft pumpkin cookies?
You will need:
1/2 cup of shortening
1 1/4 cup of brown sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 cup of mashed pumpkin, canned or fresh
2 1/2 cups of self rising flour
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon of nutmeg
1 cup of raisins
1 cup chopped pecans
Preheat oven to 375°
Cream together the shortening and brown sugar, add eggs and mix thoroughly. Mix in Pumpkin and vanilla.
Mix the dry ingredients together and add to the creamed mixture.
Add the raisins and nuts.
Drop by heaping teaspoons onto a greased baking/ cookie sheet.
Bake until lightly golden brown, around 15 minutes.
Remove from cookie sheet to a cooling racks.
Makes five dozen.
These cookies also freeze well so they can be made weeks or months in advance.These are my Thanksgiving cookies. While everyone is waiting for dinner why not set out a few plates of fresh baked Pumpkin cookies?
I am a cookie baker! I am famous for sending out dozens of cookies at Christmas time to the elderly and a few single men. If I happen to miss someone they have no problems asking ” did you forget me?”
In the coming weeks I will share a few of my cookie recipes so that you`ll also be known as a cookie baker, share if you want or just keep them all for your own family.
While most of the new recipes of today call for butter , it is rare I use butter in any of my cookies, maybe that is the secret or maybe it`s just that I love to bake cookies so you taste the love sent out in each cookie.
A cookie is good for any day of the year so don`t wait till the holidays to share a cookie.
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By Andria Perry
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I love pumpkin cookies and the best part is that they can be made with zucchini if a person has no pumpkin.
I have never tried zucchini as a replacement.
Zucchini takes on the flavor of whatever it is cooked with. Since pumpkin cookies, pumpkin pie, and pumpkin bread get most of the flavor from the pumpkin spice (nutmeg and cinnamon…I sometimes also add cloves), it is a natural as a substitute. The best pumpkin pie I ever tasted wasn’t really pumpkin pie. It was zucchini pie. :)) Still, it tasted like pumpkin pie, just better.
And cream cheese always makes them taste good, a dollop on top!
Oh yeah! I will make pumpkin faces close to Halloween.
Thanks yummy for sure.!
They are and it is that time of the year!
No wonder I have read so many pumpkin articles.
Yes, its harvest time here in Alabama.
I do not like the pumpkin, so it might be good
Well, thanks for stopping by and commenting 🙂
I like pumps. Balkanians prepare nice pies with a pumpkin fillet. I just bake them in the oven. They are very tasty.
Yummy! baked pumpkin! I love cooking with them.
Oh boy! Pumpkin cookies are one of my favorites. Thanks for the great new recipe. I will be making some soon.
Your are welcome, seems hot cookies are awesome in the fall.