I ate four standing in the kitchen before I had even moved them to the rack. They are soft to the point of melting, they taste like all of fall at once, cinnamon and ginger and nutmeg and cloves, and the cinnamon sugar top cracks just enough when you bite in. About twenty cookies, forty minutes start to finish, and they freeze. You will make them again before the month is out.<\/p>\n
And I own that completely. There is a lot of pumpkin in here, which gives a tender, moist crumb rather than a cookie that bends or snaps. If you are after chewy, this is not your recipe. If you want a soft cookie that tastes like fall and melts, you are exactly where you should be. And it is by far my favorite thing to eat with a coffee at three in the afternoon.<\/p>\n
This is the one place I almost got it wrong. My first tray came out at fourteen minutes and looked underdone to me. I gave it six more. Perfect. Straight out of the oven these are soft, which worries everybody, but after five to ten minutes resting on the tray they firm up into exactly what you want. Do not pull them early thinking you are being careful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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