Pumpkin Cookies or Muffins

Ingredients:
· ¾ cup shortening or ¾ cup coconut oil or ¾ cup of butter
· 2 eggs or egg substitute – ½ cup apple sauce
· 1 cup canned pumpkin
· 1 tsp vanilla
· 1 cup sugar or ¾ cup honey or ¾ cup agave nectar or ¾ cup coconut sugar
· 1 ½ tsp baking soda
· 1 ½ tsp baking powder or (½ tsp soda and ¾ tsp cream of tartar)
· 2 tsp pumpkin pie spice or more to taste
· 1 ¼ cup buckwheat flour or “normal flour”
· ¾ cup potato starch or ¾ cup tapioca starch
· ¾ cup chocolate chips or raisins

Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
Cream together the shortening, eggs, pumpkin, vanilla and sugar. Add baking soda, baking powder, pumpkin pie spice, flour, starch and chocolate chips or raisins. Mix well.

Spoon out on cookie sheet (greased lightly) about the size of a walnut. Bake for about 15 minutes.

Or to make muffins place in muffin tins about 2/3 full and bake at 350 for 17-20 minutes