Bestie bombs and pumpkin chocolate chip cookies

BFF and I bestie bomb each other from time to time. A bestie bomb occurs when one half of the bestie couple is having a really bad day or week, and the other half of the bestie couple decides they could do with some cheering up. So, BOOM - they get bombed by love. This works best if you have a key to your friend's place and can sneak surprises into their house while they're gone at work or on an errand.

It works out really nicely because the sad bestie feels better, and the bestie-that-was-sad-because-their-bestie-was-sad also feels better. It's a great circle of love. I was most recently bestie bombed on my birthday in July, and I bestie bombed BFF a few months ago or so when she was having a particularly bad week.

So spread the love! Go bestie bomb your BFF!

And in the bestie bomb basket, you can provide them with this: Pumpkin chocolate chip cookies by Two Peas & Their Pod
What I changed: Nothing! You don't mess with this perfection!

Ingredients:
- 3 cups all purpose flour
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
- 1/2 tsp ground ginger
- 1/4 tsp ground cloves
- 1 cup butter at room temperature
- 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup pumpkin puree
- 2 cups chocolate chips

STEP 1: 
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

In a medium bowl combine all your dry ingredients (the first 8 ingredients).

STEP 2: 

In another mixing bowl, use an electric mixer to cream together the sugars (both brown and white) and butter for about 3-4 minutes until it's light and fluffy. Add the egg, vanilla, and pumpkin and mix until it's a homogenous mixture. Add in the dry ingredients from Step 1 1/3 at a time, until it's all just combined. This will be a very thick mixture, so be careful it doesn't creep up the shaft of your mixing paddles!

STEP 3:

Fold in the chocolate chips. YUMMMMM.

STEP 4: 

Drop the batter onto a parchment covered baking sheet, a heaping tablespoon or so. Pop these bad boys into the oven and bake for 10 minutes, where the cookies are juuuust beginning to brown around the edges. After the cookies have cooled for a minute or two you can transfer them to a wire rack.

AND THEN EAT THEM ALLLLLLL (with your BFF).