Super Soft Pumpkin Cookies & A Infant Moose Story

These niggling unassuming cookies are wonderful. They've been sitting on my counter all solar daytime too they are notwithstanding thence soft (almost cake like). The recipe makes 5 dozen velvety cookies that gustation similar pumpkin pie too convey a rich dark-brown saccharide glaze on them. They would survive an first-class 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 intend adjacent fourth dimension I brand them (and married adult man says at that spot will be a adjacent time) I'll position a pair drops of orangish nutrient coloring inward the dough.

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

In a large bowl, vanquish ii cups of butter amongst electrical mixer on medium speed for xxx seconds. Add sugar, baking powder, baking soda, common salt too spices. Beat until good combined, scraping the bowl occasionally. Add the eggs too vanilla, vanquish well, thence vanquish inward the pumpkin. Add every bit much flour every bit yous tin amongst the mixer, too if necessary, purpose a wooden spoon to add together the residuum of the flour (my stand upward mixer mixed it all only fine...but it IS a lot of dough).

Drop past times heaping teaspoons on un-greased cookie canvas (2" apart). They don't spread much at all. Bake inward preheated 350 oven for 10-12 minutes (I baked mine xi minutes they don't alter color much - only 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 dark-brown saccharide + ¼ loving cup of milk + 1 teaspoon vanilla. Heat those ingredients inward 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", yous tin shop the cookies inward a unmarried layer inward an airtight container at room temperature for iii days or freeze the unfrosted cookies for upward to 3 months.

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

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

Last night, nearly midnight, our dog, Chloe, started growling nether her breath. The sort of growl that tells us she's likewise afraid to actually bark. We went to the front end window too depression too behold at that spot were THREE real small/young moose (probably triplets) standing on our sidewalk too munching away on my dear cinquefoils!! Even hither inward Alaska, beingness less than a human foot away from any moose is non an every solar daytime occurance...but triplet "moose-lets"? It was a existent process too I happily donated my Cinquefoils to these niggling babies. I got my photographic idiot box camera too walked upward to the window every bit quietly every bit possible, knowing that ANY dissonance would spook them away. It was real black out too for closed to argue my porch lite didn't come upward on when the moose walked up, thence I knew I would convey to purpose a flash. I placed the photographic idiot box camera lense correct on the drinking glass hoping to cut the flash reflection. I had alone 1 adventure for a photograph (because they would survive gone right away when they saw the flash) but it was worth a shot. The photograph is a terrible one, but I notwithstanding wanted to percentage it amongst you. The niggling triplet moose were thence cute. I'm certain their woman nurture was close by, but I wasn't going to check. Getting betwixt a woman nurture moose too her babies is something that is extremely dangerous. As presently every bit the photographic idiot box camera flashed, all iii niggling guys were g-o-n-e! They acutally missed 1 Cinquefoil constitute (the to a higher house photo), thence I am hoping they volition come upward dorsum 1 time again tonight. They are also welcome to our pumpkin (moose love pumpkins).

Sorry for the misfortunate photo

You tin encounter this brave niggling 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 proficient shot. They were nearly the size of a Great Dane (as adults they volition survive over a chiliad pounds).