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Welcome to Cancel Your Reservation. This is a collection of recipes that I have cooked or baked and want to share with you.

First - let me say, I do not like to cook. I don't get a relaxing feeling while chopping veggies, or strolling the aisles of the grocery store. I would much rather make a dinner reservation and eat out with my husband and enjoy being waited on, and relaxing at the end of the day. But lets be real, eating out all the time gets expensive, and its not the best for the waistline or our health, even though there are many healthy alternatives available now when eating out.

So, with that being said, I get in the kitchen after work and cook. I don't like it, I'd much rather clean up and do dishes after the meal than prepare the meal. The kitchen isn't my favorite room of the house. To give you some background, I burn things when I am cooking. ALOT. I can't tell you how many times I have set the fire alarm off in my house. I also burn myself while cooking, not on purpose, but I'm clumsy in the kitchen - and messy. So, if you are like me, and like to eat out, more than you like to cook, please read over these recipes and try them! Just get in your kitchen - even if it is a few nights a week. The recipes are easy to prepare, and they taste good! They just might make you cancel your reservation - and eat in! Not all of the time of course, who are we kidding :) - but more often.

Just a note, I did not come up with these recipes - no - I don't have that gift that some people are blessed with that allows them to come up with amazing recipes and flavors that compliment each other. Sources for the recipes will be noted.

Friday, October 1, 2010

Iced Pumpkin Spice Cookies

Fall is here! My favorite season - cool weather with no humidity where I live, leaves changing colors, college football - GO HOKIES, jeans, hoodies and cute tall boots :) Nothing smells more like fall to me than the way my kitchen smelled when I baked these Iced Pumpkin Spice Cookies from a recipe I found online.  If pumpkin pie isn't your thing - like me, something about the consistency - you will like these cookies. They are very easy to make and might convert non-pumpkin lovers into fans! The cookies have a soft, moist, cake-like consistency, and the icing on top makes them even more delicious!

Recipe:

Prep time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 12-15 min

Ingredients:
2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon (I put extra in mine, for more flavor, and also added about 1 teaspoon of pumpkin pie spice for more flavor)
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter,softened
1 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 cup canned pumpkin puree
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Icing:
2 cups confectioners' sugar
3 tablespoons milk
1 tablespoon melted butter
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350. Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, ground cloves, and salt. set aside
2. In a medium bowl, cream together the 1/2 cup butter and white and brown sugar. Add pumpkin, egg, and 1 tablespoon vanilla to butter mixture and beat until creamy. Mix in the dry ingredients. Drop on a greased cookie sheet by tablespoonfuls, flatten slightly.
3. Bake for 12-15 minutes. (I baked mine for 12 minutes). Cool cookies, then drizzle the icing with a fork.
4. To make the icing: combine confectioners' sugar, milk, 1 teaspoon melted butter, and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Add milk as needed to achieve drizzling consistency.

Below is a picture - some cookies are iced, some are not. If you aren't a big fan of icing, you can simply leave that part of the recipe out. Sorry about the quality of the photo - it is from my camera on my phone - my nice digital camera broke - well, I dropped it - and broke it on vacation in California so until I get it fixed, camera phone it is :) I hope you and your family enjoy the Iced Pumpkin Spice Cookies!


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