Ingredients
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2 cups flour
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1 cup quick oats or 1 cup old fashioned oats, uncooked
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1 teaspoon baking soda
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1 teaspoon cinnamon
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1/2 teaspoon salt
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1 cup butter or 1 cup margarine, softened
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1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
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1 cup granulated sugar
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1 teaspoon vanilla extract
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1 cup canned solid-pack pumpkin
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1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
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assorted color icing or peanut butter, for decorating
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assorted decorative candies, for decorating (gumdrops, candy corn, M & M's)
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raisins, for decorating
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nuts, for decorating
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1 egg, slightly beaten
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Combine flour, oats, baking soda, cinnamon and salt.
- Cream butter and gradually add sugar beating until light and fluffy.
- Add egg and vanilla and mix well.
- Alternate additions of dry ingredients and pumpkin, mixing well after each addition.
- Stir in chocolate chips.
- For each cookie, drop ¼ cup dough onto lightly greased cookie sheet and spread into pumpkin shape using a thin metal spatula.
- Add a bit more dough to form stem.
- Bake 20-25 minutes or until cookies are firm and lightly butter to affix assorted candies, raisins and nuts mixing them up to make different faces.