As soon as the weather got cooler, we took a drive out to Westchester county to the Wilkens Fruit and Fir Farm for a morning of apple picking. The folks over at Chevrolet loaned us an apple red Chevy Traverse for our trip to the farm, as well as an apple pie cooking class in Brooklyn! We love the Traverse, since it was also the car we rode on our…
I was introduced to pumpkin chocolate chip cookies by a designer when I worked at Banana Republic’s corporate offices six years ago. The cookies were these perfect mounds of cake-like pumpkin chocolate goodness. I must have had 10 cookies that afternoon. Ever since then, every fall, I make a couple dozen to kick off the Thanksgiving baking season. They are always a big hit, especially if you enjoy cake-like cookies….