Spiced Pumpkin Macarons

I am excited about my first post. Recently I have discovered a few blogs about pastries and sweets that have inspired me to write my own. I am from the west coast and in January moved to Florida. The majority of my family and friends live much too far away to share most of my new creations and projects, so this is my way of sharing with them. I miss having them to taste test everything for me, and to help my husband and I eat it all. We can only eat so much sugar. But this will do for now until we are close enough to share this stuff in person.

Now for what I made today. I have come across so many different flavor combinations for these fabulous little cookies, I wasn't sure what I wanted to try. Not to mention I have never seen these before I started reading baking blogs online, at least not that I can remember and I am pretty sure I would remember these. They are fabulous, and I think they just might be one of my favorites now. I have been wanting to make pumpkin everything lately now that it is fall so I thought that was where I would start. I got the recipe from a blog I read alot, but you will have to forgive me since I am new to this I am not sure how to link and give credit to them. I am sorry!

I wasn't very adventurous for my first try with these. I read that they could be difficult to get right and so I played it safe. I made a plain shell and just added a bit of allspice, and that was the extent of what I changed. I wanted them to turn out. For the filling I just used pumpkin and cream cheese, then sweetened it a bit with powdered sugar. I am thrilled with how they turned out, not bad for my first time. My next attempt will be a more adventurous flavor combination, I promise!