Pumpkin Snickerdoodles

Confession: I have gone all in with everything pumpkin this year. Pumpkin pancakes, pumpkin scones (though my search for one from Starbucks has led to disappointment and at times, an unjustifiable level of anger, all but once… why can’t they just make more???)

Usually I snub the Pumpkin Spice Latte craze, but Ryan brought me home one with coconut milk, and now, sadly, I have joined the ranks. Hello, my name is Jenny, and I am a Pumpkin Spice Latte addict. Feel free to bring me one any time… with the coconut milk though, please (dairy milk gives me migraines… and hormones and tbh, my kids… bless their hearts).

So guess what? Everyone I bake for gets to enjoy all the pumpkin too. I’ll make sure they’re good and sick of it long before Thanksgiving comes.

These Pumpkin Snickerdoodles were on the menu last night for our college guests, and I guess they were a hit because they all disappeared. These are more of a cakey cookie than a chewy one. I generally prefer chewy, but I had no problem sampling this one to make sure it was good enough for our guests. Oh, did I say I sampled one? There’s a chance I nearly made dinner out of cookies. Wednesdays are that kind of night. Here’s the inside so you can see (pay no attention to my nails, which are an equal amount of 10-day old chipped nail polish and purple hair dye because I love my daughter).

I can’t stress grating your own nutmeg enough. I’ll never look back. It hardly takes any extra time when using this Microplane Grater. Just please promise to get a fun color! Also, I flattened mine a good bit with the glass. The photo on the left is my first tray, which was taller and more cakey than I wanted. So the subsequent ones were flattened to maybe 1/4 inch or just about 3/4 cm.

Happy Pumpkin everything, friends! I feel a cupcake recipe coming this weekend…