Great Pumpkin Cookie

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 2 cups flour
• 1 cup quick oats or 1 cup old fashioned oats, uncooked
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup butter or 1 cup margarine, softened
• 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1 egg, slightly beaten
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup canned solid-pack pumpkin
• 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
• assorted color icing or peanut butter, for decorating
• assorted decorative candies, for decorating (gumdrops, candy corn, m & m's)
• raisins, for decorating
• nuts, for decorating

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• 2 combine flour, oats, baking soda, cinnamon and salt.
• 3 cream butter and gradually add sugar beating until light and fluffy.
• 4 add egg and vanilla and mix well.
• 5 alternate additions of dry ingredients and pumpkin, mixing well after each addition.
• 6 stir in chocolate chips.
• 7 for each cookie, drop ¼ cup dough onto lightly greased cookie sheet and spread into pumpkin shape using a thin metal spatula.
• 8 add a bit more dough to form stem.
• 9 bake 20-25 minutes or until cookies are firm and lightly butter to affix assorted candies, raisins and nuts mixing them up to make different faces.