A Less Traditional Thanksgiving Dessert
What isn't improved with chocolate chips? Amy Spiro
Makes about 4 dozen cookies
active: 30 min
total: 15 min
I might be a tad obsessed with pumpkin. Looking for pumpkin pie? I got a recipe for that. Pumpkin whoopie pies? On it. I got pumpkin bread, pumpkin muffins and pumpkin snickerdoodles. So this year, I was looking to try something new and interesting - and portable. Like many of you, I'm sure, I tend to travel with my baked goods - to friends and family for Shabbat, holidays and meals. So the easiest thing to bring is something sturdy and portable and easy to pack. Enter these pumpkin oatmeal chocolate chip cookies: unique, innovative and delicious.
If you're looking to spend a rainy day doing something then feel free to buy your own pumpkin to cook from scratch. Otherwise, the canned stuff is excellent (make sure to buy canned pumpkin, not pumpkin pie filling) and actually provides a more consistent product than the fresh stuff. Happy Thanksgiving!
Amy Spiro is a journalist and writer based in Jerusalem. She is a graduate of the Jerusalem Culinary Institute's baking and pastry track, a regular writer for The Jerusalem Post and blogs at bakingandmistaking.com. She also holds a BA in Journalism and Politics from NYU.
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