Two Ingredient Pumpkin Cookies...easy!

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GeorgiaXplant

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A friend sent this recipe to me. She said she found it on Pinterest.

Pumpkin Cookies

1 15oz can pumpkin
1 box spice cake mix

Mix together. Drop by spoonfuls on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 13 minutes at 350F.

Could be that my oven temp isn't exact, but mine took 15 minutes to bake.

I mixed the pumpkin and cake mix by hand, but a word to the wise: whether you mix by hand or with a mixer, use a whisk on the cake mix first to break up the little clumps of cake mix. Otherwise, you'll be mixing until the cows come home trying to get those little bits mixed in.

My friend puts chocolate chips in hers, but I tried mine with raisins. These cookies have a mild spice flavor but no detectable pumpkin taste so a spice cookie for people who aren't pumpkin fans. I like them because they aren't too sweet. Nice cake-like texture and might work well baked in a pan like brownies, then frosted with burnt sugar or caramel frosting.
 

I don't think that pumpkin pie filling would do it. No telling what the result would be, but I'm thinking that pie filling would make the cookie dough a "batter" instead. Never heard of plain canned pumpkin? Do you have to clean, peel, cook, mash pumpkin to make a pie? We can get canned pumpkin that we add eggs, spices, canned milk to for pie filling or can buy a can of already prepared pumpkin pie filling.

Maybe pie filling added to the dry cake mix would make a thick batter to bake in a Bundt pan. Now you've got me wondering, too. I feel like a mad scientist!
 

Let's get into it! Bwaahahahahaaa.
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It could be around in cans but I've never seen it. We were never into Pumpkin Pies so much here, though it was common in Grandma's day, by another name, (Pumpkin is a different thing here, we call the pies type Gramma ) Some of we nostalgia stricken still pine for them but the vast majority of younger Australians have probably never tasted it.

...and yes, we have to buy them whole, and do the peeling cooking thing from scratch, and if we get it right it's worth it.
 
When I was a kid we grew a variety of pumpkin that was intended for pies and another gourd--some kind of squash--that we used with the pumpkin. I didn't think it was fun to get stuck with cleaning and peeling the pumpkin (or that squash, either)!

Sure am curious what would be the result of pumpkin pie filling and spice cake mix. Hmmmmm.
 
Diwundrin said:
Oh geeze, I see more experimental cooking coming on.
Got me wondering how they'd taste if instead of canned pumpkin (which I've never heard of) a pumpkin pie recipe filling was used?
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Maybe you are both talking about the same thing?? .. this is for baking, smoothies, anything.

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You can also buy pumpkin pie filling...it's all ready to pour into the pie crust so you don't add milk, eggs, spices. It's not nearly as good as using just plain pumpkin and adding your own stuff. The canned pie filling makes a kind of "watery" pie.
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
You can also buy pumpkin pie filling...it's all ready to pour into the pie crust so you don't add milk, eggs, spices. It's not nearly as good as using just plain pumpkin and adding your own stuff. The canned pie filling makes a kind of "watery" pie.
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Oh, Okay... I've just never bought the pie filling or looked for it I guess.
The Pumpkin cookies sound like something I might try for Halloween ... thanks..:)
 
Dammit Georgiaxplant! Didn't you see my post called " gotta lose a few pounds" ? Are you part of a government conspiracy to keep me from losing weight?

Now I'm wondering about using sweet potatoes becaue I have plenty of them. BUT, I am gonna get my weight back to normal before I make them, really I am. :help:
 
Sweet potatoes and pumpkin can be used interchangeably I believe.
(Only a squash snob would know the difference.:D)
 
Wut wo! Now I'm in the doghouse for promoting weight gain. Drat. If you leave out the raisins or chocolate chips, they'll have fewer calories, right?

I bet sweet potatoes would work just fine as long as they're mashed to a fair-thee-well. I'm not a Squash Snob. Not one bit!
 
I make sweet potato pie, sweet potato brownies, squash cake and such because that's what I grow in the garden.

I grow summer squash which is much different from winter varieties. I have heard from people who grow winter squashes that they make better pies than pumpkin or sweet potatoes.

I also snicker at wine connoisseurs ( I hope you spelled that right because I copied what you wrote) or those who say you must have your steak the same way I do, etc.
 
Guess I shouldn't throw out squash snob loosely, even being funny, as I am one myself. ..I know that I wouldn't ever think to make Pumpkin Bread without my canned pumpkin.
 
Boo's Mom, do you have a good recipe for pumpkin bread? The one I have is okay, but the texture is too fine. It's more like a cake than a quick bread.
 
rkunsaw said:
I make sweet potato pie, sweet potato brownies, squash cake and such because that's what I grow in the garden.

I grow summer squash which is much different from winter varieties. I have heard from people who grow winter squashes that they make better pies than pumpkin or sweet potatoes.
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rkunsaw, how the heck do you grow squash without the vine borers killing them??? We gave up because of those nasty things. Sweet potatoes, well, giving it a shot, but don't know how they will do yet.

I Know, I know, OT​....but just had to ask that.
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
Boo's Mom, do you have a good recipe for pumpkin bread? The one I have is okay, but the texture is too fine. It's more like a cake than a quick bread.
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I use this as my base recipe: ..http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Downeast-Maine-Pumpkin-Bread/

(When I make it, I only use about 1/3 to 1/2 of the amount of sugar called for ... too sweet for me as stated, but I double the four spices always.) .. Of course, everyone tweaks as they prefer.
The recipe got so many great reviews when I first saw it, I figured that it has to be good .. and it really is.
I double the recipe and make six loaf pans at a time, and then freeze them for when needed.
 
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