things i love thursday...pumpkins

pumpkins are adorable, colorful, festive, versatile and just plain cute.  I found so many lovely pictures on flickr that it was hard to pick just nine...

1. ♥, 2. :: the pumpkin patch ::, 3. Untitled, 4. "Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting  and autumn a mosaic of them all.", 5. happy...  um...  november!, 6. always be thankful., 7. Happy Halloween!, 8. 70 - 365, 9. k pumpkins

Besides being cute...I love to bake with pumpkins too...they make it feel more like fall when the weather we're having here still feels like summer.  I'm going to share one of my favorite pumpkin chocolate chip cookie recipes with you.  It's super easy and I like it because I usually have all of the ingredients on hand.

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

Blend these ingredients:

1 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup vegetable oil

1 cup pumpkin puree

1 teaspoon vanilla

In a separate bowl blend these ingredients:

2 cups flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

3 teaspoon cinnamon

2 teaspoon nutmeg

1 teaspoon ground ginger

Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and blend.

Then add 1 cup (or more) of mini chocolate chips.  

Both milk chocolate and semi-sweet taste great...use what you like.

Bake at 350 for 12-15 minutes.

Here are some other pumpkin recipes that I'm going to try soon...

pumpkin whoopie pies with cream cheese filling from martha stewart

marbled chocolate pumpkin brownies from bhg

pumpkin salted caramel blondies from baked bree

pumpkin muffins from martha stewart

pumpkin scones with spiced glaze from honey and jam

How about you...are you a fan of pumpkins and do you have any favorite pumpkin recipes?