Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

A friend of mine on Facebook posted this last week. It's from Allrecipes.com. It was very easy, they're delicious and I did double it. I didn't even need a standup mixer, I used a wooden spoon. You could use one though if you have one. I didn't feel like taking mine out...



Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies III

Ingredients

1 cup canned pumpkin

1 cup white 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

2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

1/2 cup chopped walnuts ( I did not use walnuts)

Directions

Combine pumpkin, sugar, vegetable oil, and egg. In a separate bowl, stir together flour, baking powder, ground cinnamon, and salt. Dissolve the baking soda with the milk and stir in. Add flour mixture to pumpkin mixture and mix well.

Add vanilla, chocolate chips and nuts.

Drop by spoonful on greased cookie sheet and bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for approximately 10 minutes or until lightly brown and firm.

Auntie Mary Iacampo's Blueberry Muffins

Great Aunty Mary Iacampo passed away this fall at 100 years old. There was a Blueberry Muffin recipe that she'd always talk about - a favorite of Mom's which we'd always ask about when visiting Mary...it would give her something to get excited about because she always thought that we had it wrong! Well... here is the recipe from Mary, though the verbal instructions didn't include a baking temperature or time... So Mom has guessed in that regard; trial and error is the last ingredient!

RECIPE

1/2 C. butter  (1 stick)

1 C. sugar

1 egg

1 C. milk

1 tsp. vanilla

1 C. flour

1 tsp. baking powder

1/2 tsp. salt

2 C. blueberries (1 pint)

Dust the blueberries with a little flour taken from the 1 cup flour to keep them from sinking.

Cream butter and sugar. Add egg and mix.  Combine milk and vanilla.  Combine dry ingredients.  Then mix dry ingredients and milk alternately with creamed mixture. Fold in blueberries. Fill paper lined tins to top. Sprinkle with a mixture of cinnamon and sugar (or just plain sugar) before baking.  

Bake at 375 degrees for 30 minutes (or try 400 for 25 minutes).  Auntie Mary didn’t say what at temperature or for how long these should bake, so try one temp/time, and if that doesn’t work well, try the other next time, or check with other similar recipes.