Sara’s Famous Pumpkin Cookies

After having tasted one of M’s vegan pumpkin cookies, I immediately got addicted, and would beg for a batch every time the season for pumpkin comes around. I think I even asked for them as birthday presents, once! Eventually, I came to the sad realisation that M would not always be there to make pumpkin cookies for me, there will come the one day that she will leave me and I will have to find another way to get those cookies. The day came when she moved to Oxford with her husband.

So, I asked for the recipe, and it’s been sitting in my inbox for a good two years or so. I’ve always had this fear of baking; I’m just not a baking person, and always think that the kitchen will be a disaster lest I try to do anything with the oven. I cook savory meals just fine: it’s the sweets that gets to me. (Maybe  because there’s a lot of cleaning to do afterwards.)

But today, I summoned up all the courage to just try to bake a batch at least once. Maybe it won’t be so bad after all, and maybe it will just be as easy as M said they were. So I went to our nearby Whole Foods and bought the ingredients that I needed. Looking at the recipe, there were measurements that included a “t”, lowercase. Now being the baking dummy that I am, I had no idea if the “t” stood for teaspoon, or tablespoon. And at home, I only found two measuring utilities: a 1/4 cup, and 1/2 teaspoon. Freaking out, I seriously considered abandoning the project. But since I already measured out the flour and sugar, I figured I might as well use my best judgement. Since it was lowercase, I assumed it must meant teaspoon. Tablespoon would probably have been written with a capital “T”. So teaspoon it was, and when I popped them in the oven, I had to cross my fingers and hope that I didn’t put too little baking soda (since the recipe called for “2 t baking soda”). 

And……

TA-DA!

A success! Thank you, M, for your simple recipe!

Yummilicious!!!