Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

This morning my husband had to wake up earlier than me. I stayed in bed, pretending to sleep for about 30 minutes after our alarm went off. I might've actually fallen asleep if it hadn't been for the garbage trucks collecting the trash right outside of our window (we live on the ground floor). My husband came in to say goodbye and kissed me with coffee breath, it was fresh coffee breath and therefore it was romantic.
We usually eat yogurt and granola for breakfast but this morning I knew that we had pumpkin chocolate chip cookie dough sitting in our fridge. And pumpkins are really good for you and chocolate has caffeine so baking these cookies for breakfast was a no brainer. I've had four today so far.
We made these cookies yesterday to celebrate Halloween. They don't really celebrate Halloween here like they do in the States. But I wanted to make the most of it despite the lack of trick-or-treaters and the fact we wouldn't be going to any Halloween parties this year. Instead, we watched a lot of Halloween movies and made Halloween-ish food.
We first watched Edward Scissorhands while eating a black rice and purple cabbage stir fry. Then we watched Hocus Pocus and snacked on pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. Later, we watched Scream while eating pumpkin gnocchi with lemon, spinach, butter, and goat cheese. And then we watched It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown and drank hot apple cider with whiskey. The photo above was our decor, a lone candle in a dark room. Spoooooky.

We made nine of these cookies yesterday and ate them all. And I made more today and devoured four of them faster than I should've- it must be the beta carotene.
They taste like pumpkin pie cakes with chocolate chips. They are soft, like feather pillows. They are spiced like pumpkin pie but they have that distinct chocolate chip cookie taste too. They're cakey-cookies. They're good. They're addictive. The soak up milk better than Bounty Paper Towels.
I made them using this recipe. It was easy to follow. The hardest part was finding pumpkin puree in Sweden. Instead we found half a pumpkin, roasted it and then pureed it.
This is not just a Halloween recipe. You should make them for Thanksgiving, you could sandwich them between whip cream like real pumpkin pie. Or you could just eat them all in less than 24 hours which we will be very guilty of very soon.