Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

Anyone else's blog feed blowing up with pumpkin recipes?

Then it's official; Fall is here.

I'll try not to over do it on the pumpkin, since it's all over the food blog world right now. But I had to share these with you. I made them this past week, as part of my "Fall bucket list", and they are SO good.

One reviewer mentioned that they're only 97 calories per cookie. I don't know how accurate that is, but it sounds good to me! Who needs fact checking? I'm good with living in ignorance if it means I get to have just one more!

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

(Original recipe by George Duran)

Ingredients

• 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 cup light brown sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup canned pumpkin puree
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
• 2 cups (12-ounce bag) milk chocolate chips (the recipe actually says not to use semi-sweet, but I think any kind of chocolate chip would do... even white chocolate! Yum...)
• Nonstick cooking spray or parchment paper

Directions

Heat the oven to 350 degrees F. Spray cookie sheets with nonstick spray or line them with parchment paper.

Using a mixer, beat the butter until smooth. Beat in the white and brown sugars, a little at a time, until the mixture is light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs 1 at a time, then mix in the vanilla and pumpkin puree. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves. Slowly beat the flour mixture into the batter in thirds. Stir in the chips. Scoop the cookie dough by heaping tablespoons onto the prepared cookie sheets and bake for 15 to 20 minutes, or until the cookies are browned around the edges. Remove the cookie sheets from the oven and let them rest for 2 minutes. Take the cookies off with a spatula and cool them on wire racks.
Yields 60 cookies (umm... yeeeeah. I didn't get 60 cookies, but I have a problem with sizing my cookies. So it's probably me, not the recipe).