Ready or not, here comes Fall!

Fall has always been fun time for me.  I dread the heat of summer so cooler days are always appreciated.  Summer is also a pretty slow time for the gift basket business so the coming of Fall was a sign of better times to come.  One of our highlights was seeing what new seasonal products our vendors would come out with.  Never did we imagine that we would be able to come out with our own creations.  While traveling around the country setting up new retailers I had several suggestions for a Pumpkin Spice cookie, which we had never thought about.  After asking around we found out that pumpkin is becoming a year round favorite for many people. 

After much experimentation and arguments about spice level, we finally created a Pumpkin Spice Cookie.   This was more of a challenge that I had anticipated as I found that getting more pumpkin flavor was not a matter of adding more pumpkin, but doing something else entirely!  I won’t say what I did, but I will tell you it was counter-intuitive.  I have already discovered there is a group of people out their that like the flavor of pumpkin but hate pumpkin pie!  I believe it is a texture thing for most, or if they are like me they had an incident in the past where they had eaten an entire Pumpkin Pie in one setting.  In my defense, it was a very good pumpkin pie and I was much younger!

For those of you that like to experiment with your baking, don’t be afraid to try something a little different that makes no sense at all.  Just be sure to keep good notes in case it works!

Lastly, for those of you that are following our Seasonal Cookies for Toby Tobin, tune in Saturday to KMBC, 980 am,  find out what our Fall Tobin Cookie will be. 

~Robert

Posted by: Cookie Guy | 09-03-2008 | 03:09 PM
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