Squash Cookies Anyone?

The year I was pregnant with Miss. Me, I lived in Kansas City.  The Plaza was just over the bridge and there was a Williams Sonoma boutique store there.  I picked up a beautiful mini burlap sack of cookie mix and it was called "Pumpkin Spice Cookie Mix".  It smelled heavenly. 

This looks like the delicious cookie; this is not a
picture of the horrible cookie.

Later that day, I followed the directions which were printed on the handy little sack and made the most wonderful, tasty, melt-in-your-mouth cookies I have ever enjoyed.  I went and bought some more.  Then the season changed and I anxiously awaited the arrival of the next fall so that I might partake in their pumpkin-y spiced goodness once again.

To my dismay, the little burlap packages did not return.  I left Kansas City the following January and I have never enjoyed a pumpkin spiced cookie again.  Today, I tried to make pumpkin cookies from a recipe I found in a book.  They were bad... oh so bad... have you ever had the urge to eat a cookie made of squash?  No?  Well, let me tell you - it tastes as absolutely awful as you might think.  They are utterly and completely nasty.  Ew.

So I am on the hunt for a delicious pumpkin spice-flavoured cookie that I can make in my own home whenever I have the desire to eat them.  And yes, this is the first time in twelve years that I have thought of using the internet to search for a good pumpkin spice cookie recipe.  I have no idea how ridiculous that must make me sound.