Okay, so last weeks pumpkin treat was indeed cheesecake.... and the on I picked was too fancy! Don't get me wrong it was delicious... but too much work to make for the taste. I also would have loved a plain cheesecake! Next year we will do it differently!
Pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. I love pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, they are the first pumpkin item Tyson and I ever made together... though we do not use that recipe anymore because it was SO super sweet.... I don't think I could eat half a cookie. This year I went with a cakeier cookie and it was awesome! Not too sweet, lots of pumpkin flavor. I was super happy!!
So, I'm a few days behind but Saturday I did indeed make my pumpkin snack for the week. A pumpkin crumb cake, and I was soooo much happier with it than my cookies! I rather quite enjoyed it. I think I made it a bit darker than I would have preferred but it was still well worth it and next year I could make it even better!!
Well, last night it was time to make my first pumpkin treat of the season... and I went with something I thought couldn't fail. Pumpkin no bake cookies.
Now around my house no bake cookies are prized, being Tyson's favorite I've become quite good at making them over the five years since we first started dating... and I only imagined that with a pumpkin kick they would be delightful.
The recipe called for me to replace the peanut butter with pumpkin, otherwise it was a pretty normal recipe.
As it turns out without peanut butter the cookies are not the same... the salty really makes the sweet and the pumpkin just didn't give it that same kick. They were good enough to be eaten but simply not as good as I had hoped or anywhere near as tasty as the original.
With such am amazing array of things to do with pumpkin these will not be made next year!
So the elephant in the news right now is that it is the start of fall... and I love it!
I love pumpkin time! Every week from now to Thanksgiving I will have a different pumpkin based food.... mostly dessert but I may throw in some soup or pasta with pumpkin. Pumpkin is delicious and actually has a fair amount of nutritional value.
It also means the start of Fall film fest in the Young household... which used to be October film fest but we have to many "horror" and thriller and such movies to watch so it will start this week and go until we are done which hopefully is before Christmas time Lol.
The one bad thing about fall is the bugs... box elder beetles.... I hate them! They discourage me from leaving my house because every time I do I somehow end up with one on me. I hate bugs!
And... just for a random note... Jude is six weeks old today. Yay baby Jude
Happy fall everyone!!
