Pumpkin Sheet Cake

I love all things pumpkin.  During the fall it is a must have but I like it so much we have pumpkin flavored things all year long.
 
We love this cake for dessert (and sometimes breakfast)

Pumpkin Sheet Cake

Yield 2 sheet cakes (can easily cut recipe in half)

3 cups white sugar
1 cup margarine
2 teas vanilla
2 cans of pumpkin (the regular size cans)
4 eggs
3 cups flour (I use whole wheat and it taste great and is more nutritious)
4 1/2 teas baking powder
1 Tab baking soda
1/4 teas salt
4 teas cinnamon

I dump all the ingredients into my mixer and turn it on until it looks good and mixed.  (I am not a very precise person in the kitchen)

Bake at 350 degrees in a greased cooking sheet for 20-25 min.

It is tasty plain or with a light glaze on the top.

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Best Cookie Recipe Ever

In my humble opinion this is the best cookie recipe ever.

1/2 cup butter
1/2 teas baking soda
1/2 teas baking powder
1/2 teas vanilla
1 egg
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
2 cups flour

Bake at 350 degrees for 8 min.
(My oven runs cool so I bake mine at 365)

Be sure not to overcook them.  They should be puffy when you take them from the oven but as they cook they flatten a bit.

This is the only cookie recipe I use.  I alter it to suit the type of cookie that I want to make.  Today I replaced the brown sugar with white sugar and rolled the dough in cinnamon and sugar to make snickerdoodles.

These cookies are moist and chewy  - Never dry and crunchy.

 My mother made terrible cookies.  They were always crunchy and often burnt on the bottom.  She thought she was being efficient by cooking 4 trays of cookies at once but in order to put the 4 racks in the oven she had to place one rack  all the way on the bottom.  That tray of cookies ended up burnt to a crisp - ALWAYS.  You would think that she would have noticed this problem and changed her ways but no.

I remember my sisters and I learning to place burnt peanut butter cookies under a little water and scraping the burnt bottoms off to make them more palatable.  Wet soggy peanut butter cookies - yummy yuck!  We must have been desperate. Don't get me wrong she made other things that were quite yummy but  the cookies were not one of them.

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