Now that October has come to a close and November is underway, the denial that summer is over and fall has begun is gone.  The truth is that fall is here and there’s nothing we can do about it, so we might as well enjoy it.  For those of you who love fall, these months are easy for you; but for those of you who just barely tolerate it, there are many ways you can get into the fall mindset, and one of those ways is food. Between fall themed beverages, dishes using apples, and pumpkin spiced everything, the options are endless for fall oriented food. So to help myself adjust to fall, I decided to make pumpkin spiced cookies.

Feeling daring, I decided to make them from scratch using an online recipe.  Now, usually this works out for me; however this time, something (I’m still not sure what) went horribly, horribly, wrong.  I don’t know if it was the recipe (if so, you can blame Paula Deen for that) or if it was my inability to follow the recipe correctly.  Either way, the cookies came out very different than I expected and not the way I wanted them to.

After hours of contemplating and observing my finished product (which looked more like a mess than a finished product at all), I think I reached a conclusion.  The recipe for these cookie made dough for rolling out and using a cookie cutter instead of the standard dough for scooping. This recipe made cookies more in a gingerbread style than the normal style of cookies; thus, the cookies did not turn out like I expected them to. However, I was not aware of this while I was making them, so this is why the cookies came out terribly.

I will not bore you with the details of my failed endeavor to be ambitious and make cookies from scratch, for it really is not all that interesting.  Instead, just take my advice: if you’re craving pumpkin spiced cookies, do yourself a favor and buy the Betty Crocker mix from the store.  It’ll save you time, effort, AND will have a tastier finished product (trust me).  This way, your cookies will end up in your stomach rather than in the trash like mine did.