Stuffed Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

This is the only time of year that I can eat pumpkin cookies.
The rest of the year, it tastes sacrilegious.
But now, is the perfect time of year to enjoy the autumn holidays on the tastebuds. Celebrate the season with these very colorful, warm spice, cookies.

• 1/2 cup shortening (do not substitute, shortening makes them "so fluffy I can't stand it!")
• 1 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 1/3 cup pumpkin
• 2 1/4 cup flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp ginger
• 1/4 tsp cloves
• 1/4 tsp nutmeg 
• Add-ins 
• 1/3 craisens
• 1/3 white chocolate chips
• 1/3 cup crushed walnuts 

Preheat oven to 350° F. 
In a medium bowl, combine all the dry ingredients and stir to combine. In a separate bowl, combine all the wet ingredients. Stir the dry ingredients into the wet and mix to form a smooth batter. Stir in the add-ins. Drop by rounded spoonful on cookie sheets and bake for 15 minutes. 
Drop batter onto ungreased baking sheets by rounded teaspoonful. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes or until lightly golden. Transfer cookies to a cooling rack.