COOKIE DOUGH
1 cup butter, room temperature
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 cup canned pumpkin
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon salt
GLAZE
3 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar
1/4 cup milk
1 1/2-2 cups confectioners' sugar
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Cream butter and sugars together until light and fluffy.
Blend in pumpkin, egg and vanilla extract.
In separate bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, baking
powder, cinnamon and salt.
Mix flour mixture into butter and sugar mixture.
Drop by the tablespoon onto ungreased cookie sheets. Place three inches apart.
* Bake the cookies for 10-12 minutes until golden around the
edges.
Transfer cookies to a rack to cool. Cool completely before applying glaze.
For Glaze
In a medium saucepan, heat butter and brown sugar over
medium heat until bubbly.
Cook, stirring, for one minute or until slightly thickened.
Beat in the milk.
Blend in confectioner's sugar until glaze is smooth and
spreadable.
Spread glaze over cookies using a brush or drizzle from a
spoon.
Warm glaze if it hardens.
* My cookies took longer to bake but my oven runs cool so check yours frequently and bake longer if necessary.
I had some pumpkin leftover so I mixed it with one egg and enough whole wheat flour to make a dough and made cookies for my dog. Those are also already gone!
The county fair is the highlight of the year for the small town of
Lovett, Michigan—especially for food-and-lifestyle blogger Shelby
McDonald, who writes as the Farmer’s Daughter. She’s submitting jams and
jellies she’s created from the produce she grows at Love Blossom Farm
in hopes of harvesting a blue ribbon.
But the townspeople get more than just the excitement of hayrides, tractor pulls, and cotton candy when Shelby’s neighbor and volunteer fireman, Jake Taylor, extricates the body of Zeke Barnstable instead of a dummy during a demonstration of the Jaws of Life. The fact that Jake and Zeke were known to be at odds plants suspicion in the minds of the police. As evidence against Jake grows, Shelby knows she has to plow through the clues to weed out the true killer and save her friend.
But the townspeople get more than just the excitement of hayrides, tractor pulls, and cotton candy when Shelby’s neighbor and volunteer fireman, Jake Taylor, extricates the body of Zeke Barnstable instead of a dummy during a demonstration of the Jaws of Life. The fact that Jake and Zeke were known to be at odds plants suspicion in the minds of the police. As evidence against Jake grows, Shelby knows she has to plow through the clues to weed out the true killer and save her friend.
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