Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

Every year at Halloween I make these...and every year, they go like hotcakes when I take them to work. This year was especially memorable...I decided to triple the recipe to use the whole can of pumpkin, and the amount of cookie dough in the stand mixer covered the beater! It took 3.5 hours to finish making the cookies, 7 batches later. (oops) Needless to say, everyone else benefits from the mass-cookie-giveaway! These are a little bit pumpkin pie, a little bit cake, a little bit chocolate chip cookie. All-in-all, a delicious Halloween snack.

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

1 c canned pumpkin
1 c white sugar
1/2 c vegetable oil
1 egg
2 c all-purpose flour
2 t baking powder
2 t ground cinnamon
1/2 t salt
1 t baking soda
1 t milk
1 T vanilla extract
2 c semisweet chocolate chips

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. 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 into dry ingredients. Add flour mixture to pumpkin mixture and mix well.

2. Add vanilla and chocolate chips.

3. Drop by heaping spoonful on greased cookie sheet and bake for approximately 10 minutes or until lightly brown. (cookies will be slightly soft, but will no longer be shiny)

makes ~2 dozen medium sized cookies