Just Like Big Nana's Pumpkin Chip Cookies

Original recipe makes 30 cookies

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  1 teaspoon shortening, or as needed
• 1 (18 ounce) package yellow cake mix
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 (15 ounce) can canned solid-pack pumpkin

• 1 3/4 cups semisweet chocolate chips
• 2 eggs
• 1 tablespoon milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease 2 baking sheets with shortening.
2. Whisk cake mix, cinnamon together in a bowl, breaking up any lumps. Beat pumpkin, eggs, milk, and vanilla into the cake mix mixture; stir in chocolate chips until evenly distributed through the dough.
3. Drop rounded tablespoons of dough 2 inches apart onto prepared baking sheets.
4. Bake in the preheated oven until cookies begin to brown and spring back when touched. Cool 2 minutes on the baking sheet before to a wire rack to cool completely.