Pumpkin Chai Cookies

Holy goodness! Did you know that Hershey's has a pumpkin spice flavored kiss??? I just found them! I am trying to have self control, OK wait, who am I kidding, I have NO self control! I unwrapped one, ate one, unwrapped one, ate two, etc. Why do we only have the good stuff seasonally??? Seriously, where I work we only have garlic bread during the garlic festival, there is only pumpkin spiced items during fall/winter and for crying out loud, why cant we have the Christmas tree up all year long!? Com'mon, I mean life would be a happier place if there was no such thing as "seasonal".

Done with my rant, onto the coking. So for tonight were going to get into cookie season. Here's what you'll need:

Pumpkin Chai Spiced Cookies

1/2 cup                         Earth Balance butter
1/2 cup                         Brown Sugar (or white)
1 each                           Egg
1/4 cup                         Chai concentrate
1 teaspoon                    Vanilla Extract
1 3/4 cup                       Flour
1/2 teaspoon                 Baking Soda
Pinch                             Salt
1 bag                             Hershey's Pumpkin Spiced Kisses

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

Cream the sugar and room temp butter until it's light and fluffy. Add the egg, chai concentrate and vanilla extract and mix until combined. Then add you dry ingredients and mix well. Let it sit in the fridge for about an hour.

Once it has hardened a bit roll out balls no bigger than 1 inch. Place them on your parchment covered cookie sheet and continue. You can get creative with these by sprinkling chai powder over them or possibly orange zest or adding crushed nuts to the top. Once you've got them all prettied up throw them in the oven for 12-15 minutes. A little bit of color but not too much.

While they're in the oven unwrap the kisses and try to have self control!!! Don't eat all the kisses because then you wont have any for the cookies, epic fail. Once the cookies are done pull them out and immediately place the kisses in the center of them. Let cool and enjoy!

Got any cookies you love and want to see featured on the blog? Leave a comment below or email me at cbell1(at)comcast(dot)net. We'll see if we can't get them up here, who knows, maybe we'll have a bake off of the best cookie recipes!

Happy Eats!