Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

I have been wanting to make Kirsten’s Pumpkin Chocolate Chip cookies for ages and what better excuse then Halloween Day?  So, I give you Rose’s version of the Tollipop Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies, written Kirsten style:

Since it is Halloween Day, Ask The Boy if he wants to make cookies with you while The Girl naps.

Realize that you still have not carved your jack o’ lantern because the Southern heat will cause it to rot within moments of its disembowelment.

Make a quick sketch of a cat before The Boy changes his mind once again, and set enormous pumpkin on table.  Hack it to bits with an enormous knife and pumpkin carving kit while The Boy cowers on the sofa nearby, nearly overcome from what he believes is a foul aroma coming from the pumpkin.

Set candle in pumpkin and sashay over to the kitchen, setting ingredients on the counter and talking to The Boy about how fabulous these cookies will be.  Watch in dismay as The Boy runs off to play video games with his father.

Search your kitchen for your measuring cup, and find it in the bathroom, where The Girl left it after she was done playing with it.  Wash measuring cup.  Commence to following the recipe, using two tablespoons of actual pumpkin pie spice you had languishing on the shelf.  Get to the flour part of the recipe and devilishly (it is Halloween, after all) decide to use half white flour and half whole wheat flour, because that’s what an awful mother you are.  End up using a lot of flour, giving up on the measuring at 2 cups, when the dough still looks like ogre slop.  It had to be 2 and 1/2 cups at least!  This is the humid south, after all.

Decide not to taste the dough because you fear with your weak stomach, you will be stricken with the vapors immediately upon tasting even the tiniest amount of raw egg.

Accidentally pour in nearly the entire bag of chocolate chips.  No cookies were ever ruined by too much chocolate.  Decide to use your cookie scoop because they make your cookie making experience more successful and therefore more fun.  Besides, who wants to fiddle around with two teaspoons for heaven sakes?  That’s positively bourgeois!

Toss your first batch into the oven and set timer to seven minutes.  Come back to rotate pans and set timer for three minutes.  Decide at the end of the timer that ten minutes is perfectly ample time for your cookies to bake.  Grumble and complain as you fish the dirty spatula out of the dishwasher and wash it by hand. Quelle horror!

Sadly watch The Boy and The Daddy leave for a bike ride while you positively slave away baking cookies.  Look at your big bowl of dough and think, I’m going to be here for a while.  Decide to eat a cookie to assuage your feelings of abandonment.  Decide that Kirsten is a genius for publishing her recipe, and vow to make these cookies every Halloween for the rest of your life.  Take a photo of the perfectly melted chocolate you sunk your teeth into.

Overcook one batch while you are busy writing this blog post.

Give two cookies to The Boy, who has returned from his bike ride.  Give two cookies to The Girl, who must have sensed that cookies were being dispensed, and woke up from her nap.

Continue making cookies until you run out of dough, which may not be until Thanksgiving.  Marvel at the sheer amount of cookies you have just made, and decide to bring some to the Halloween party you are attending later.

Try to keep your children from eating them all while they sit on the counter to cool.

Have a Happy Halloween!