It’s that time of the year again!  Fall is starting to become the season that signals to me that it’s time to start baking again   It’s when the weather becomes cool enough to crank the oven up and fill our home with yummy smelling treats.  Although I enjoy baking throughout the year, Fall – and October specifically – brings out the crazy baker in me!  Throughout Spring and Summer I squirrel away recipes that sound tasty (usually cookie recipes) and starting in October, I unleash these recipes upon the kitchen!  The results are usually way more than Sain and I could ever handle on our own so starting last year they end up in tins, packed and ready to share with friends

 
This year I tried to select cookie recipes that would hopefully result in a more Fall themed balance.  The ones that made the cut were:

1. Pumpkin Spice Cookies (by request from last year!)
2. Shortbread Cookies
3. Lemon Butter Cookies
4. Ginger Spice Cookies
5. Sugar Cookies with Lemon Vanilla Frosting  – always a good staple cookie

I have to get better at taking in-the-process-of-being-made photos, but thank you Sain for being my photographer while my hands were covered in flour, dough, chocolate, etc :p  On to the results!

Pumpkin cookies before and after frosting, my first attempt at piping frosting! Didn't close the piping bag off properly so it got a little messy but overall very fun! And then the shortbread cookies after chocolate application!

Frosted, packed and ready to go!

Closeup!

Additionally, I’ve decided to start including larger images in my posts   I realized it didn’t make much sense to have a camera capable of taking detailed photos and then going and shrinking said photos down to ridiculously small sizes lol – yay for belated realizations :p