PKU Pumpkin Cookies- recipe

My family loves cookies. Sunday nights it's common to find someone in the kitchen baking a fresh batch of cookies. (Especially after a cookie fundraiser.) As a PKU'er cookies are rather high and so my sister usually only have 1 or 2 a day; but it's REALLY tempting to take another. So naturally I want to find some simple PKU cookie recipes that I can freeze and make some Sunday evening.

Today I made Pumpkin Cookies (in honor of Halloween) with my friends and I wondered: Is there a recipe for PKU Pumpkin Cookies??? So I did what any other semi-tech savvy teen in America does... I googled it. :) Here is the best recipe I could find. I'm going to have try it and take pictures.

Pumpkin Cookie Recipe

1 C brown sugar

1 C white sugar

3/4 C butter or margerine

15 oz. can pumpkin

2 t baking soda

1 t baking powder

1 t cinnamon

1/2 t nutmeg

1/2 t ginger

1/2 t salt

3 1/2 to 4 C of Wel-plan baking mix

Frosting:

1/2 C butter or margerine

1 C brown sugar

4 T Rich's Coffee Creamer or Mocha mix (or other liquid creamer - adjust phe as needed)

3 C powdered sugar

Cookies:

Sift dry ingredients. Cream sugar and butter. Alternate dry ingredients with creamed mixture and pumpkin. Drop by spoonful onto cookie sheets. (Dough may appear soft, but cookies form and rise nicely). Bake at 375 degrees for 8-10 minutes.

Frosting:

Melt butter and brown sugar, bring to a boil. Boil for 2 minutes. Add non-dairy creamer and return to a boil. Cool. With beater, add sugar gradually. Final consitency should be spreadable. Frosting can be colored or Halloween decorations added.

Cookies per recipe - 70; Phe per cookie - 5 mg

Recipe from Ahn H, mother of Stephanie and Samantha, from MN PKU Foundation 2000 calendar.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!! :)

Happy Hallow's Eve!

Halloween. The time of year where you can dress up as someone else and get free candy for it. :) I may be a teenager but I still enjoy trick-or-treating with my friends. It's a blast! I remember one year when I was little I wanted to be SuperMAN not supergirl... SUPERMAN! (That was also the year I cut my own hair.) My mom ended up putting a bow in my hair so people would realize I was a girl.
Yes, there is candy out there I can't have because of my PKU. (Anything with peanut butter, artificial sweetening, nuts... and I think that's it.) But ever since I was little I'd just do what any other kid would. I'd trade. ;) Anything I was allergic I'd just trade to a friend or to my parents for some of their leftover Halloween candy. It's never been a big deal. Why should anyone make it a big deal? Houses where they let me pick out what I want are great. But if they slip it into my bag it's okay, I'll just trade it later.
The ONE thing that annoys me most is: the foiled covered chocolate. I don't KNOW if it has peanut butter in it! So I have to either break it in half before I eat it or let someone else taste test it for me. (And if I let someone taste it you can be sure there won't be much left for me if it was fine.)
Free candy?? Yum. :) I love Halloween. I even can accept the lame houses that hand out carrot packages. *Yes house that passed out carrots last year I'm talking about you. Unfortunately my Best friend can't accept you so we're not stopping there again this year.*
Halloween is oodles of fun. And it's not really different for PKU'ers, we just have to eat it slower. Which is always the goal right? ;)

Happy Halloween!!

Another article

Remember that Dr. Koch article from my last really short post??? I found another article about him. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-richard-koch-20111008,0,5500503.story I personally think of Dr. Koch as the PKU person's hero. He did so much for us. It is because of him that I can think, talk, go to school, I owe him so much. He'll always be a hero of mine. Rest in peace Dr. Richard Koch, you lived a long successful life. :)