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Vegan Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
Vegan Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies. Use chocolate chips on the Pumpkin cookies to make your favorite Halloween insects or other…
- Ready 50 minutes
- Serves 6
- Prep 30 minutes
- Cook 20 minutes
These pumpkin cookies are easy, pumpkiny and spiced with fall spices. Use other spices if you like such as cardamom. These large cookies are also a great canvas for some halloween-y ideas.
Make the dough. Chill, shape into large cookies, press chocolate chips and chunks in. Bake and done. I am having a ton of trouble concentrating on writing this post today 🙂 too many things on my mind!
Pumpkin cookies can easily end up too cakey. To keep them less so, chill the dough, press the dough to make thin cookies, and let the cookies sit for a while after baking. Preferably chill for a few hours. The cookies settle and get chewy. The spices used also get stronger with time.
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Steps:
Make the dough. Chill for half an hour.
Press the cookies into flat discs. Press chocolate chips and chunks on top.
Make your halloween shapes or not.
Bake for 14 minutes. Cool completely. Chill for best results. Vegan pumpkin chocolate chip cookies for halloween!
Recipe
Vegan Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
Vegan Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies. Use chocolate chips on the Pumpkin cookies to make your favorite Halloween insects or other things! Vegan Cookie Recipe. Makes 5 or 6 large cookies
- Serves 6
- Prep 30 minutes
- Cook 20 minutes
- Total 50 minutes
Ingredients
Wet
- 1/4 cup pumpkin puree (not pumpkin pie mix)
- 1 Tbsp molasses (or use maple)
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 Tbsp almond butter (or other nut or seed butter or you can use refined coconut oil)
- 1/3 cup sugar
Dry
- 1/2 cup spelt flour (or wheat pastry flour)
- 1/2 cup unbleached white flour (ap flour)
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 2 Tbsp vegan chocolate chips
- 2 to 4 Tbsp mini chocolate chips and chocolate chunks for pressing into the cookies
Instructions
- 1
In a bowl, mix all the wet ingredients until well combined.
- 2
In another bowl, whisk all the dry ingredients.
- 3
Add dry to wet and make a soft dough. if the dough is too sticky, add a tbsp or so more flour and mix in. Add 2 Tbsp mini chocolate chips and mix in. * For regular cookies where you dont plan to press in chocolate on the cookies later, mix in 1/4 cup chocolate chips.
- 4
Chill the dough for 30 minutes.
- 5
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F / 180ºc
- 6
Take the dough and divide it into equal balls, Make flat balls and place on parchment lined baking sheet. Press the ball to make a thin cookie. Press chocolate chunks or chips into the shaped cookies to make desired insects, skull, pumpkin etc shapes.
- 7
Bake for 13 to 15 minutes. The center will be somewhat soft but should be dry and not doughy.
- 8
Cool the cookies for 15 minutes, then remove from the baking sheet. Cool completely and refrigerate for an hour before serving.
Notes
Nutritional values based on one serving
Nutrition
- Calories281 kcal
- Carbohydrates44 g
- Protein5 g
- Fat10 g
- Saturated Fat4 g
- Sodium152 mg
- Potassium120 mg
- Fiber4 g
- Sugar24 g
- Vitamin A1590 IU
- Vitamin C0.4 mg
- Calcium59 mg
- Iron3.1 mg
