Note to self: Make cookies after dinner.
Making cookies before dinner will result in the consumption of copious amounts of cookie dough, as well as several fresh-out-of-the-oven “taste tests.” 
Dinner will then be ruined.
A sugar coma caused by cookies will set in, zapping any hopes you had of preparing a healthy dinner.
Throw in the towel, grab another cookie and call it a night.
Sometimes cookies for dinner just happens.
It’s best to embrace it with a smile. 😀
Tonight’s dinner-ruining recipe was oatmeal pumpkin spice cookies. I came up with the idea for these cookies after a craving for oatmeal cookies hit and I remembered that I had pumpkin in the fridge from this morning’s breakfast.
I used the recipe on the back of Publix’s old fashioned oatmeal container as a guide, but significantly changed it to make these cookies. The result was moist and delicious pumpkin-laced oatmeal cookies.
Oatmeal Pumpkin Spice Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 c. packed brown sugar
- 1/2 c. sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/4 c. water
- 1 c. canned pumpkin
- 1 stick butter, softened
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 3 c. old fashioned oats
- 1 c. all purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp. baking soda
- 1 tsp. pumpkin pie spice
- 2/3 c. slivered almonds (walnuts or pecans would also be delicious)
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Mix sugars, egg, water, pumpkin, butter and vanilla
- Combine oats, flour, baking soda and pumpkin pie spice and slowly mix into the sugar mixture until evenly combined
- Bake for 13 – 15 minutes
- Enjoy!
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Cookies happen. I say run with it!
I do that, too! Kind of the best dinner ever, though. 😉
sounds like a delicious dinner! 😉 i love your blog!
Whoah woah! Those look and sound dangerous! You can bet that those will be in my thanksgiving dinner! ( not dessert, that would be pumpkin pie and ice creammm 😉
oatmeal pumpkin – yum!
I love this post. I happen to ruin my dinner in this exact same manner about 4 times a week 🙂
Can you come over and ruin my dinner?
hehe this happened with me the other night when I made Butterscotch Brownies prior to making dinner….which resulted in eating another brownie and calling it a night lol
Could you just add the oatmeal to the world famous pumpkin spice cake/cookies you make, just take the spice cake mix, add the pumpkin, and then the oats, or would adding the oats absorb too much liquid from the cake?
i bet that would still work really well. those cookies are moist enough that i think they could handle the dryness from the oats. i’d just add a little bit of oats at a time until you get a consistency you like.
Well I got signed up to make that cake for Thanksgiving Supper since I made it for a family Halloween Party and everyone LOVED it so I have to make it again, Ill try it with the oats this time and let you know how it goes! Thanks
My kind of dinner! HA 🙂 Looks delish, Julie!
Wow those look amazingly delicious – I’m definitely going to have to try making them.
your coo’kies were healthy enough to call them “baked oatmeal” for dinner!
And remember, pumpkin is a “fruit” because it has seeds but it also has tons of vitamins. So there you go. A healthy dinner!
I do this WAY too often. I get in the baking mood around 4:30 and then by the time they’re done, it’s time to start dinner…and then I’m not hungry from all the cookies! haha
Ruin dinner?! Nahh, you MADE dinner 😉
It happens…at least they were delicious 🙂
A good cookie is absolutely worth ruining dinner over! 🙂
I find myself do that quite a bit oh uh! I just had like 5 Kashi Oatmeal Dark Chocolate Chip cookies 2 hours ago and now I’m sick to my stomach. With those darn cookies, it’s impossible to stop after just one! lol Your cookies look yum-o! Gotta give that recipe a try! Maybe I can make those for ‘one of the’ desserts of Thanksgiving, because you know one dessert in any holiday just doesn’t cut it he he
sounds like a good idea to me 🙂
I made cookies today to! And I have ruined dinner this way many times before, but not today. I didn’t even taste them, the family says they are good though.
Haha, I’ve done that too! Cookies for dinner sometimes isn’t too bad?
Every child’s dream right?
Honestly, cookies taste better than dinner. Sometimes you’ve gotta live on the wild side! Though I’m surprised you went the cookie dough route after your last experience. I think I’d be scarred for a while. 🙂
Ingredients include oats, an egg, pumpkin (a veggie!!) and almonds (for healthy fats). Sounds like a reasonable dinner to me.
Haha, yep, sometimes it happens. But for good reasons. 😉
you have no idea how many times I’ve done that. 😉 that’s life!
a question for youuu. how do you make it so you can reply to each specific comment? is that a widget, or is that in your blog template? 🙂 you’ve unknowingly signed up as my blog mentor.. ha!
Those cookies look delicious! Sometimes you just need dessert for dinner. 🙂
Wait…cookies don’t count as dinner??? Since when! 😉
seems like a really great way to ruin dinner though!
(btw, i finally (like, after four years) updated my blogroll. and you’re on it now! i’ve been reading you for a while and finally stopped over here to comment. congrats on your wedding btw! also, im the one who emailed you about cutting our dude’s hair!)
xo
you mean cookies weren’t FOR dinner!? 🙂
I made cookies last night too! my friends and I enjoyed some yummy peanut butter cup cookies..we also snacked on the cookie dough and ate them fresh out of the oven! soo good!!
Pumpkin, Oats, Egg, Almonds….sounds like a perfectly wholesome and healthy dinner to me! (vegetable, check! fiber, check! protein, check! healthy fats, check!)
“Sometimes cookies for dinner just happens.”
Haha love it! Best if they are good cookies!
My fav are ginger cookies straight out the oven, still a little gooey inside but crispy on the edges. Yuuum.