Recipe: Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

This is about the easiest recipe EVER. Seriously. It was told to me over the phone by a colleague in about 30 seconds. I made a batch today and will make another one Monday evening to take to my night class on Tuesday.

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients:

• One box of spice cake mix.
• One 15 ounce can of pure pumpkin (NOT "pumpkin pix mix").
• One cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips.

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350; line baking sheets with parchment paper.
2. Combine spice cake mix and pumpkin - I used my stand mixer.
3. Stir in chocolate chips.
4. Drop spoonfuls of batter onto cookie sheets. I used my cookie scoop. They don;t have to be too widely-spaced, as they don't seem to spread much.
5. Bake for 10 - 12 minutes. Let cool on trays one minute then remove to wire racks to finish cooling.

I am quite sure that chopped nuts, such as pecans or walnuts, could be happily substituted for the chocolate chips - I may do this on the next batch!

~Mamie "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro!" (Hunter S. Thompson)