I have found the best pumpkin recipe known to the marie/sean household...
I rarely share recipes or my food, for lack of cooking confidence, but this one has to be known.

I have yet to make adjustments, to make this a little healthier, but who the hell cares.

Behold!

the "Pumpkin Muffie*"
(modified version of Martha Stewarts pumpkin cookies)

ingredients:
-2 3/4 heaping cups all-purpose flour
-1 teaspoon baking powder
-1 teaspoon baking soda
-1 1/4 teaspoons course salt
-1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
-1 1/4 teaspoons ground ginger
-3/4 teaspoons ground nutmeg
-3/4 cup softened unsalted butter
-2 1/4 cups packed light-brown sugar
-2 large eggs
-1 1/2 cups pumpkin puree (14 oz)
-3/4 cup evaporated milk
-1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Whisk together flour, baking powder, soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg. Set aside.

In a separate bowl combine butter and brown sugar with an electric mixer, until light and fluffy. Add eggs. At a low speed, add pumpkin, evaporated milk, and vanilla; mix until blended well. Add dry ingredients, mix until combined.

Transfer batter into a pastry bag (I just used a make-shift one, which included cutting one corner side of a zip lock bag) Pipe 1 1/2 rounds onto parchment-lined baking sheets, they expand so space them at least 1 inch apart. Bank cookies for about 12 minutes rotating half way through. Cool on sheets on wire racks for 5 minutes. Transfer cookies to wire racks, cool completely before serving.


*my favorite Panera treat, that  I sadly cannot have in the deprived State of Utah. Deprivations also include but are not limited to: Lamaar's, Q-doba, Lucilles, Casa, and Stuft.