The Cookie Thursday is a Thing theme for November 2025 is Fall.
I asked my boss and someone else who happened to be in their office which cookie screams fall to them. They looked at each other and answered, “Pumpkin.”
I opened my Fall page on my Pinterest Cookie Thursday is a Thing board and looked up pumpkin cookies. One recipe caught my eye and it was for a soft pumpkin cookie, with no frosting.
Sold, I thought.
Until was making it and realized that it was a pumpkin Snickerdoodle recipe. Ugh. I hate making Snickerdoodles and this is probably the second time in CTIAT’s 9 years and 11 months that I made one.
I will recognize that the cookies are soft.
Apparently, this is because I decreased the canned pumpkin’s water content. I thought that would make the cookies drier. Not so. I put the canned pumpkin on paper towels and let the moisture seep out. This completely changed the consistency of the canned pumpkin.
Color me surprised and impressed.
The cookies did bake up super soft and it intensified the pumpkin flavor. Who knew?
I still hated dredging each dough ball in cinnamon sugar before baking. I will try that trick when I am making sweet potato cookies.
Dispatches from the Evening Shift 