Happy Labor Day!After coming home from working half a day today I did some baking. While it wasn't from scratch, it was still good. I had bought a cookie mix at Hobby Lobby over the weekend. The cookie mix was Pumpkin Spice Cookies. The mix came with cinnamon icing which tastes like a cinnamon roll. It's a really simple recipe, great for someone who doesn't have a whole lot of time for baking from scratch. All it requires is 5 tablespoons of room temperature butter or margarine and 2 tablespoons of water. I added a third tablespoon. It just seemed a little too dry without it.
The actual baking doesn't take long....but I g
uess cookies don't take long anyway. I'm more familiar with cake baking rather than cookie baking. These take 10-11 minutes according to package directions. After going the 11 minutes, I left them in for another 5 minutes. I wasn't pleased with the doneness at just the 11 minutes. But adding the extra minutes seemed perfect! Beware though, this particular mix doesn't make a whole. Especially if you're wanting to make big cookies. Normally, how I dip the dough on the sheet is with a ice cream scoop or a cookie dough scoop. You can make decently good circles instead of ragged irregular cookies by using a scoop. Particularly ones that have a scrapper in the scoop to help get the contents out on the cookie sheet. I have two different sizes, which the smallest one I could've used had I found it. I did find it only after I put the cookies in the oven. When I used the bigger scoop, it made only eight cookies. So ended up halving it, making 16 cookies. The package says 12-24 can be made. If you were needing to make a lot, get more than one mix package.The icing is no effort icing. It com
es already made. All you have to do is knead it in it's package before using it. The best way to ice the cookies is to use a small icing spatula(see the above picture). And of course with any cookie icing you need to let it harden before stacking on a plate. If know anything about icing, you know that to have smooth layer is to use warm water on your spatula. I forgot to do that on my cookies. I was just so eager to photograph my finished product. A you can probably tell in the photo to the left. My cookies never stood a chance. I took several to my brother and sister-in-law and nephew. The rest my mom, dad, grandmother, and myself ate after supper as a dessert. They are no more.For an idea of how they tasted. The cookie was spicy like what's in the name. But it also had hint of honey, even though the ingredients didn't have that as one. The icing still tasted like a cinnamon roll. So, it was a delicious combination of tastes, if you can imagine it on your tongue.
Mix Info:
In the Mix Cookie Company Pumpkin Spice Cookie Mix can be found at Brand Castle.
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