Now I'm an old lady (grin), I give out the candy. I never plan far enough in advance and always end up doing a very slap-dash job of my pumpkin. I like a friendly toothy pumpkin but this year I lost a tooth in my carving haste.
Handing out candy is reasonably fun but this year very few kids came by. So I baked cookies... They were terrible.
I used one of my old recipes and as I was going along I thought, "This can't be right" but I persisted. I should have trusted my baking guts. They're edible but I want to take them to work and frankly I've got a reputation to uphold. I knew they were bad when roommate J declared that I'd made better. My second attempt (with a different recipe) looks better so far. I'll see how they taste as soon as they're cool enough.Cookie Update:
So much better! I was attempting a ginger molasses cookie. I made some excellent ones last year which my coworkers still rave about (thus my wanting to take them to work). These are good but aren't as kicky. I have of course misplaced the recipe I used last year. This recipe was from Cook's Illustrated.com. I made one modification to the recipe. Instead of using one egg yolk, I used the whole egg. I guess I could have saved the white for this weekend's project (a birthday cake for me).
