Categories: Dessert

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup shortening
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 cup pumpkin puree
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 1/2 cups butterscotch chips

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

2. Grease cookie sheets.

3. In a medium bowl, cream the shortening and sugar. Stir in the pumpkin and vanilla.

4. Sift together the flour, salt, baking soda, baking powder, and cinnamon; stir into the creamed mixture. Then mix in the butterscotch chips.

5. Drop dough by teaspoonfuls onto the prepared cookie sheets.

6. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in preheated oven. Allow cookies to cool for a minute on cookie sheets before transferring to wire cooling racks.

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