October means pumpkin mania. Have you been to the grocery store lately? It’s everywhere. Big jack-o-lantern pumpkins, cute little baby pumpkins, pumpkin spice lattes, pumpkin ice cream, pumpkin yogurt, pumpkin bread, pumpkin ravioli...it’s a bit much. Good thing I like pumpkin.
I came across a jar of pumpkin butter (which doesn’t actually contain any butter, mostly just pumpkin and sugar), which made me think of my major pumpkin fail last year: pumpkin cookies.
What I wanted, what I desperately craved, were wonderfully chewy, slightly crispy pumpkin cookies. What I got were pumpkin muffin tops. Ugh. Remember that? Well, I guess it wasn’t a total loss because I turned them into Pumpkin Toffee Whoopee Pies, but oh, the sting of failure…