“Pumpkin Spice Cookies,” cookie cutter & spices. Bark & Barkley, Inc., 1995.    

Pumpkin Cookie Cutters

“Pumpkin Spice Cookies” epitomize the deep meanings yet superficial quality of many pumpkin foods produced at the turn of the twenty-first century.  The product consists of a pumpkin-shaped cookie cutter, a small packet of pumpkin spice and a recipe that contains flour, sugar and butter but no pumpkin. The image of the pumpkin – as an icon of a quaint, old-fashioned farm - is what sells the product, not the vegetable's fleshy, meaty substance.