Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

 Ingredients:
1 cup canned 100% pumpkin puree
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 egg
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon milk
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
3 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips

Directions:
Mix pumpkin, sugar, oil, and egg in a large bowl or electric mixer; mix well.  In a separate medium bowl combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon; mix well.  In a small bowl dissolve baking soda in the milk, then add to pumpkin mixture.  Add the flour to pumpkin mixture and mix well.  Add vanilla and chocolate chips and mix gently until incorporated.  Place spoonful size cookies on a greased or parchment lined baking sheet (I used parchment paper) and bake for 10-14 minutes.  When finished baking, immediately remove cookies from cookie sheet and place them on a cooling rack.

Then sit back and enjoy this wonderful, fluffy, moist cookie.

Candy Corn Sugar Cookies

Ingredients:
2 sticks unsalted butter, softened
1 cup sugar
3 cups flour
1 egg
2 tablespoons lemon juice
2 teaspoons lemon zest
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
Red Food Coloring
Yellow Food Coloring
1/2 cup granulated sugar (dusting)

Directions:
Cream butter and sugar in electric mixer.  Add lemon juice, lemon zest, egg, and salt.  Mix until well combined.  Add flour and baking soda.  Mix until well combined.  Divide dough into thirds.  Press 1/3 of the dough into a lined (wax, foil, parchment) loaf pan.  Place another 1/3 dough into a bowl and add food coloring to make orange.  Follow the direction on the food coloring box.  Once your dough is the preferred color of orange press on top of the white dough in the loaf pan.  Next mix the remaining 1/3 dough in a bowl with yellow food dye until desired color.  Press on top of orange layer.  Cover and refrigerate until chilled (2 hours, but best overnight).  Once chilled remove from loaf pan and cut 1/4 inch thick.  Then cut those slices into triangles (about 5-6 triangles per slice).  Place on a parchment lined or greased cookie sheet and bake at 375 degrees for 7-10 minutes.  Once cookies are baked immediately dip in sugar to dust them.  Cool on wire rack.