I was so excited for Halloween this year. We live in a family friendly, mostly military neighborhood and I love decorating and passing out candy to all the trick or treaters! Then to top off our Halloween, our little “pumpkin” Ava was born on Oct 23, so she could celebrate with us! Unfortunately it was too cold to dress her up and take her out but I did paint an Ava pumpkin and put her in a pumpkin onesie!

The week of Thanksgiving I baked lots of treats including Peanut Butter Pudding Cookies for the EOD guys at my husband’s work (recipe coming soon!) and these delicious (and super easy!) Chocolate Pumpkin Cake Cookies! They only have 4 ingredients and have the consistency of a moist whoopie pie. The best thing: they are bite size and delicious!

Thanks to Dana for this great recipe!

Our little Pumpkin, 9 day old Ava Luciana Hood!

Mommy’s Little Pumpkin!

I made this onesie for her with an iron on decal I found for 99 cents!
Check out her ghost hair clip!

Our outside decorations

My Ava pumpkin

(I just printed out letters from WORD and traced onto a pumpkin)

I had to add a “It’s A Girl” sign on the door! I’m one proud Mama!

Chocolate Pumpkin Cake Cookies

Print Recipe

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cake Mix Cookies

Makes 20 large or 40 small cookies

Ingredients

15 oz can of pumpkin
1 box Spice Cake mix
1 egg
1 bag of semi sweet chocolate chips

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Mix all ingredients in a large bowl, making sure to incorporate all the dry cake mix into the batter.
Scoop balls onto a lined baking sheet.
Bake for 14 minutes.
Repeat with remaining dough.
Let cool completely before packing or storing.