Super Soft Pumpkin Cookies & A Babe Moose Story

These lilliputian unassuming cookies are wonderful. They've been sitting on my counter all twenty-four hours too they are nevertheless therefore soft (almost cake like). The recipe makes 5 dozen velvety cookies that gustation similar pumpkin pie too convey a rich brownish saccharide glaze on them. They would last an fantabulous vacation cookie too the recipe says they freeze good (unfrosted). They volition never win a beauty contest, but man-o-man are they tasty. I mean value side yesteryear side fourth dimension I brand them (and wife says at that spot will be a side yesteryear side time) I'll lay a brace drops of orangish nutrient coloring inwards the dough.

2 cups butter, room temperature
2 cups white sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon dry soil cinnamon
1 teaspoon dry soil nutmeg
½ teaspoon dry soil ginger
¼ teaspoon dry soil cloves
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
(1) xv ounce tin of pumpkin
4 cups flour

In a large bowl, shell ii cups of butter amongst electrical mixer on medium speed for thirty seconds. Add sugar, baking powder, baking soda, tabular array salt too spices. Beat until good combined, scraping the bowl occasionally. Add the eggs too vanilla, shell well, too therefore shell inwards the pumpkin. Add every bit much flour every bit you lot tin amongst the mixer, too if necessary, role a wooden spoon to add together the residuum of the flour (my stand upwards mixer mixed it all but fine...but it IS a lot of dough).

Drop yesteryear heaping teaspoons on un-greased cookie canvas (2" apart). They don't spread much at all. Bake inwards preheated 350 oven for 10-12 minutes (I baked mine xi minutes they don't modify color much - but bake them until the tops are set). Cool on wire racks too frost. Brown Sugar Frosting: ½ loving cup of butter + ½ loving cup of brownish saccharide + ¼ loving cup of milk + 1 teaspoon vanilla. Heat those ingredients inwards a saucepan until the saccharide is melted too smooth. Transfer to a bowl too add together 2¾ cups of powdered sugar. Whisk smoothen too frost cookies.

After the frosting has "set", you lot tin shop the cookies inwards a unmarried layer inwards an airtight container at room temperature for iii days or freeze the unfrosted cookies for upwards to 3 months.

NOTE: These cookies are VERY soft, almost similar a lilliputian mini-cake.

MY BABY MOOSE STORY
The leaves convey been off of our trees for quite a spell at nowadays too this morn nosotros woke upwards to an inch of snowfall which melted quickly. However, inwards this color-less fourth dimension of year, at that spot is a hardy lilliputian found that tin withstand difficult frosts too but keeps blooming too blooming for me. I convey several of them correct exterior my front end door but therefore I tin bask them this fourth dimension of year, they are called Cinquefoils.

Last night, most midnight, our dog, Chloe, started growling nether her breath. The sort of growl that tells us she's besides afraid to actually bark. We went to the front end window too depression too behold at that spot were THREE really small/young moose (probably triplets) standing on our sidewalk too munching away on my dear cinquefoils!! Even hither inwards Alaska, beingness less than a pes away from any moose is non an every twenty-four hours occurance...but triplet "moose-lets"? It was a existent process too I happily donated my Cinquefoils to these lilliputian babies. I got my photographic tv camera too walked upwards to the window every bit quietly every bit possible, knowing that ANY dissonance would spook them away. It was really black out too for but about argue my porch calorie-free didn't come upwards on when the moose walked up, therefore I knew I would convey to role a flash. I placed the photographic tv camera lense correct on the drinking glass hoping to cut the flash reflection. I had alone ane risk for a photograph (because they would last gone similar a shot when they saw the flash) but it was worth a shot. The photograph is a terrible one, but I nevertheless wanted to portion it amongst you. The lilliputian triplet moose were therefore cute. I'm certain their woman nurture was nigh by, but I wasn't going to check. Getting betwixt a woman nurture moose too her babies is something that is extremely dangerous. As before long every bit the photographic tv camera flashed, all iii lilliputian guys were g-o-n-e! They acutally missed ane Cinquefoil found (the higher upwards photo), therefore I am hoping they volition come upwards dorsum ane time to a greater extent than tonight. They are also welcome to our pumpkin (moose love pumpkins).

Sorry for the misfortunate photo

You tin come across this brave lilliputian moose, too the leg of her sibling on the left. The 3rd moose is to her right; when nosotros outset saw them, all iii were shoulder to shoulder on our front end steps, if alone it were daylight, I could convey gotten a expert shot. They were most the size of a Great Dane (as adults they volition last over a grand pounds).