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Great Pumpkin Cookie
 
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Prep Time: 30 Minutes
Cook Time: 30 Minutes
Ready In: 60 Minutes
Servings: 4
These are big delicious cookies. It's also wholesome because it's made with pumpkin. The kids will love making up different faces on each cookie. Make these cookies with your favorite goblins, and they'll gobble them up before you can say BOOO!
Ingredients:
2 cups flour
1 cup quick oats or 1 cup old fashioned oats, uncooked
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup butter or 1 cup margarine, softened
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 cup granulated sugar
1 egg, slightly beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup canned solid-pack pumpkin
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
assorted color icing or peanut butter, for decorating
assorted decorative candies, for decorating (gumdrops, candy corn, m & m's)
raisins, for decorating
nuts, for decorating
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Combine flour, oats, baking soda, cinnamon and salt.
3. Cream butter and gradually add sugar beating until light and fluffy.
4. Add egg and vanilla and mix well.
5. Alternate additions of dry ingredients and pumpkin, mixing well after each addition.
6. Stir in chocolate chips.
7. For each cookie, drop 1/4 cup dough onto lightly greased cookie sheet and spread into pumpkin shape using a thin metal spatula.
8. Add a bit more dough to form stem.
9. Bake 20-25 minutes or until cookies are firm and lightly butter to affix assorted candies, raisins and nuts mixing them up to make different faces.
By RecipeOfHealth.com