Saturday Baking

The King Arthur Flour Baker's Banter Blog has some pretty neat looking stuff. I've had the best of intentions to try some of their recipes for a while now, and today I finally did. They posted a recipe this week for Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies. The recipe adds canned pumpkin, spices, and walnuts to chocolate chip cookies to give them an autumn-spicy kind of feel. It reminded me of a Harvest Loaf Cake my mom makes (and I love), so I spent the afternoon giving them a whirl.

I did some substituting - I used white whole wheat flour (because I like it) instead of regular all-purpose, and I subbed cardamom and nutmeg for ginger (because I didn't have any ginger). Otherwise I followed the recipe.

My cookies didn't spread at all, nor did they get the yummy color they were in the picture. And they were a might bit dry. They were more cake-like than cookie-like - no crunch when you bite them. And without the icing, they aren't sweet at all. But with the icing, they are tasty, just not what I had in mind. I think I'll just stick with the Harvest Loaf Cake next time.

Daniel helped me ice them. (He didn't need to stand on the stool!)

The finished product. Compare to the picture on the King Arthur blog and you'll see why I was disappointed. :(