Reminder this month’s theme is Falling For You. All of the bakes will be fall themed.
And what is more fall themed than pumpkin?
But I didn’t want to do the expected pumpkin chocolate cookie or the pumpkin bread. So I went searching through my want to do recipe file and pulled out this recipe.
It has all the makings of a great cookie.
Browned butter- check
Pumpkin to fit the theme- check
Maple which also kinda fits the theme- check
Oh, and buried in the deep dark part of the recipe is the fact that these are snickerdoodles!
I am not a fan of snickerdoodles but I would persevere.
No white sugar in this recipe until the sugar bath that befits a snickerdoodle. The recipe relies heavily on brown sugar. Which will make the cookie chewier.
The recipe also called for 1 c softened butter, 1 egg yolk, 1/3 c pumpkin, 1/3 c maple syrup, and vanilla extract and this was just the wets. The dries consisted of 2 1/4 c flour, baking soda AND baking powder, cinnamon, cloves, ginger and all spice. The spices are basically what amounts to a pumpkin pie spice.
I mixed up the batter and promptly got called to the hospital. I let the batter rest until I returned from the hospital 5 hours later, after midnight. I didn’t want the batch any longer than that and I fired up the oven and spent the next hour scooping, sugar bathing, and baking the cookies. The dough was very clingy, not sticky exactly but it didn’t to leave the cookie scoop.
I sampled the first one before I went to bed.
I’m not mad at these cookies but it certainly tastes like the pumpkin flavor and the maple flavor are in a fight. Or, at least, a strongly worded argument.
The result was a snappy looking cookie that was remarkably chewy. I had to keep a close eye on the cookies because brown sugar only cookies bake a bit different.
Not my favorite fall cookie I’ve ever made.
