Pumpkin Cookies

I love fall. It is my favorite season. I love the colours that the leaves turn, I love the cool air, I love Halloween, but I think most of all I love that it is pumpkin season.

Every year I get a few pumpkins and roast them, make my own pumpkin puree, pumpkin pie, pumpkin cookies. pumpkin lattes and toasted pumpkin seeds. I make sure that by the time pumpkin season is over my family is good and sick of pumpkin.

I made pumpkin cookies. I love them. They are a cakey cookie and super yummy.

2 cups shortening 

2 cups white sugar

2 cups pumpkin puree

2 eggs 

2 tsp baking soda

1 1/2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp salt

4 cups flour

6 tbsp butter

8 tbsp milk

2 cups icing sugar

2 tsp vanilla

1 cup packed brown sugar

 Cream together first 3 ingredients. Add eggs, mix well. Sift together baking soda, cinnamon, salt and flour. Add into pumpkin mixture, mix well. 

 Bake at 350F for 10-12 minutes.

Cook butter, milk and brown sugar over medium heat until sugar is dissolved. Let cool. Add icing sugar and vanilla. Spread icing over warm cookies. Makes about 5 dozen.

Summer

So I don't think I have posted almost since the start of summer. I spent most of my summer gardening and reading. I read quite a bit this summer and I joined a book club.
 I read the Fifty Shades of Grey series. I was very skeptical of those books. I really didn't like Christian at first, but he kind of grows on you. I wasn't sure about Ana either, but I guess the series grew on me a bit.

 


 I also read The Art of Racing in the Rain.

 I loved that all of the book was from the dog's perspective. I thought he did talk too much for a dog, but I did enjoy this book. There were lots of references to car racing and I don't follow racing at all, but the way he wrote it you didn't have to follow racing to understand what he was saying. It was a sad story, but it was also happy. I loved how positive the dog was no matter how bad things got.

 I am currently reading Lenobia's Vow. I haven't read enough of the book to have an opinion on it yet.



 I have read all of the House of Night books so far. This is the first novella that I have read. What I like about it is that I don't have to try to remember the rest of the series to understand what is happening in this book, it is a separate story with one of the characters in  the House of Night series.
  I loved the House of Night series so far, but what I don't like about it is that I read the book as soon as it comes out, then I have to wait months or even a year for the next book to come out. By that time I have forgotten a good chunk of what has happened in the other books and it takes me a while to get back into the series. Well, that being said I still would recommend those books to a friend.

 I will be doing a crafting post in the next day or so, and hopefully, even with everything that is going on right now, I will be able to get a bunch more crafting done.