pumpkin snickerdoodles & some changes

Oh good morning!  Notice anything different around here?  I hope so.  Please ignore the fact that the blog reno is half finished and that stuff probably doesn't work.  I'll get there eventually.  I just needed something different.  Like two months ago.  Stuff about the other layout was driving me nuts and I couldn't figure out what code I needed to edit.  But I'm proud to say I'm learning more about css and html!  Well kinda... I can google and copy and paste what people tell me to.  That counts right?

Moving on, this morning I'm here to share pumpkin snickerdoodles with you.  I LOVE baking.  Love it.  And I love baked goods.  But unfortunately I'm on this stupid eat healthier kick :o), so I've been trying to restrain myself.  I decided I could bake something once or twice a month to send with Chris to work.  There are an abundance of people in the hospital, so surely I wouldn't be imposing on someone's waistline too much, unlike what it would do to me if I had all 3.5 dozen cookies at home.

When I asked Chris if he had any requests, he told me a med student interested in the hospital, who was on his service or something, was allergic to nuts.  Considering the fact that I think 95% of the recipes I pin include peanut butter, nutella or walnuts, my options were limited.  I was reading off various recipe names and pumpkin snickerdoodle caught Chris's attention.

For once I baked something near perfectly, and these cookies are incredibly soft.  The taste is good, but I didn't really get any sort of a pumpkin kick.  Boo.  Nonetheless, they really are good.  If anyone knows how to make them a bit more pumpkiny let me know.  For the record, I actually made this recipe exactly as written.  You can find it here!