IT’S HERE! The primary pumpkin recipe of the season. Healthy Pumpkin Cookies which are thick, pillowy smooth, and stuffed with pumpkin spice and every part good.

Packed with whole-grain goodness within the type of oatmeal and happy-life goodness within the type of heat fall spices and darkish chocolate chips, these wholesome pumpkin oatmeal cookies belong in your cache of repeat-worthy fall desserts.

Each fall, I really feel a second of hesitation across the inaugural can of pumpkin.

The climate is often nonetheless pretty heat, and I fear that I’m speeding sweater climate.

After which the scent of cinnamon fills my kitchen with heat nostalgia.

Preliminary emotions of hesitation are changed by the joy of change…or is it the joy of a heat batch of cookies about to emerge from the oven?

I’ll consider the primary believable trigger (change) whereas consuming my first cookie, and the latter (freshly baked cookies) whereas munching my second.

If I’m nonetheless undecided, effectively, that’s what the third cookie is for!

These wholesome chocolate chip pumpkin cookies are tender and buttery.

The flavour of the pumpkin is entrance and middle, due to a wealthy array of warming spices like cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg and a beneficiant amount of pumpkin.

No being dissatisfied by the dearth of pumpkin or the dearth of pumpkin spice right here!

As with my iced Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies, the addition of rolled oats lends these wholesome pumpkin cookies a satisfying texture, contact of hominess, and an excuse to go in for extra (hi there, wholesome complete grains!).

Darkish chocolate chips give the cookies true dessert flare. As this Healthy Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread and this Paleo Pumpkin Bread can attest, I’m all-in for the pumpkin and chocolate combo.

If you’re extra of a purist with your pumpkin baked items, or if you’re trying to lighten these up a bit and serve them as wholesome pumpkin breakfast cookies, you may swap the chocolate chips for an additional of your favourite pumpkin mix-ins. The cookies do already embody walnuts (extra texture!), which you’ll be able to improve or complement with different yummy additions like chopped toasted pecans or dried cranberries.

Or you may take your pumpkin cookie cravings the wrong way and go all-out indulgent with these chewy Pumpkin Snickerdoodles.

Simply promise me you gained’t wait lengthy to bake these wholesome pumpkin cookies. They’re really delicious and certain to be one among your favourite wholesome fall desserts.

How you can Make the Greatest Healthy Pumpkin Cookies

You’ll love how briskly these straightforward pumpkin cookies come collectively. You don’t even want to sit back the dough previous to baking.

Whereas many wholesome pumpkin cookies embody applesauce, I discovered that applesauce made the cookies *too* cakey. (If you’re searching for cookie recipes with applesauce, try these Healthy Oatmeal Cookies as an alternative.)

The average quantity of butter right here yields a extra conventional chewy cookie texture. Pumpkin cookies usually do have a contact of cakiness (a product of baking with pumpkin usually), which I don’t sometimes love in my wholesome cookie recipes, nevertheless it’s not overwhelming and 100% works right here.

The Components

• Pumpkin. By itself, pumpkin could be ho-hum, however the elements in these cookies assist it attain its full cozy taste potential. Ensure that to make use of pumpkin puree (not pumpkin pie filling) for this recipe.
• Flour. A combination of white complete wheat flour and all-purpose flour makes these cookies healthful whereas conserving their texture mild.
• Oats. A nutritious and filling addition. Oats usher in fiber and create a satisfying textural factor.
• Butter. Whats up, good chewy texture and real-deal cookie taste!
• Spices. Cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg put the “spice” into our pumpkin spice desires.
• Sugar. A mixture of brown sugar and granulated sugar is good in these cookies.
• Vanilla. Vanilla enhances the pumpkin and heat spices completely.
• Combine-ins. Darkish chocolate chips and walnuts have been my mix-ins of selection, however you possibly can simply swap in pecans, dried fruit, or extra chocolate chips as an alternative.

The Instructions

1. Whisk the dry elements collectively in a single bowl. In a separate bowl, beat the butter and sugar collectively.
   
2. Add the pumpkin, egg, and vanilla to the butter combination, beating till blended.
3. Add the dry elements to the moist elements. Beat on low pace till the flour disappears.
   
4. Stir within the chocolate chips and walnuts.
   
5. Scoop the dough into balls, and place them on a parchment-lined baking sheet.
6. Bake at 375 levels F for 11 to 12 minutes. Let cool, then ENJOY!

Make-Forward and Storage Ideas for Cookies & Cookie Dough

• To Freeze Unbaked Cookies. Scoop cookie dough balls onto a parchment-lined baking sheet. Freeze till stable, then switch frozen cookie dough balls to an hermetic freezer-safe storage container for as much as three months. Bake from frozen as directed, including further baking time as wanted (often about three to five minutes).
• To Freeze Cookies. Switch totally cooled cookies to an hermetic freezer-safe storage container, and freeze for as much as three months. Thaw and get pleasure from at any time when a craving strikes!
• To Retailer. Retailer cookies in an hermetic storage container at room temperature for as much as 1 week.

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Advisable Instruments to Make these Cookies

• Mixing Bowls. Sturdy, easy-to-store, and one among my most-used kitchen necessities.
• Baking Sheet. Your pumpkin cookie BFF!
• Cookie Scoop. The simplest approach to create perfectly-sized cookies.

What’s the very first thing you intend to bake with pumpkin this yr? In case you haven’t determined but, I’ve a tasty contender for you proper right here.

As at all times, in the event you do make these wholesome pumpkin cookies, I’d like to know what you suppose! Please go away a assessment within the feedback under. I like listening to from you, and your suggestions may be very useful to others too.