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    Home » Favorite Flavors & Ingredients » Pumpkin

    Awesome Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Cookies

    Published: Oct 31, 2016 · by Kim Lange · This post may contain affiliate links ·

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    Awesome Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Cookies

    Awesome Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Cookies are soft, chewy exquisite pumpkin cookies loaded with luscious chocolate chips!   Just in time for the 'pumpkin everything' season and one of the our favorite ways we like to incorporate pumpkin is in cookies!  Especially Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Cookies!

    Awesome Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Cookies

    These pumpkin cookies are soft, not cakey, yet they are very light and because of the pumpkin, no eggs are needed.  You'll love the pumpkin spiced and chocolate yumminess in every bite, especially when you use Ghirardelli Bittersweet 60% Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips.  Yum!!

     PUMPKINS - DID YOU KNOW?

    Pumpkins are gluten free?  Pumpkin is a fruit? Pumpkins are 90% water?  A pumpkin is not a Jack O'Lantern, until it is carved? Pumpkins were used as a remedy for snake bites? Pumpkins originated in Central America? Pumpkin flour can be used in place of wheat flour?  Pumpkins are rich in Vitamin A and potassium? Pumpkins are also high in fiber?

    The self proclaimed "Pumpkin Capital of the World" is Morton, Illinois where Libby has it's pumpkin industry and plant?  I only knew a few of these, so I'm schooled now.

    So, if anyone asks, you now possess superpowers of pumpkin knowledge beyond your wildest dreams!  WootWoot!   🙂

    Awesome Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Cookies

    Ingredients You Need for Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

    • butter 
    • granulated sugar
    • brown sugar
    • canned pumpkin puree
    • vanilla
    •  water or milk
    • all-purpose flour
    • baking powder
    • baking soda
    • salt
    • ground cinnamon
    • pumpkin spice
    • Ghirardelli 60% bittersweet semi-sweet chocolate chips

    How to Make Awesome Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Cookies

    1. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Line baking sheet with parchment paper or spray with non-stick spray.
    2. Using a mixer, in a bowl, cream together the butter and sugars until light and fluffy.
    3. Add pumpkin, vanilla and water, and mix until combined.
    4. Add in the flour, baking powder, soda, salt, cinnamon and pumpkin spice to the pumpkin batter and mix until combined. Stir in the chocolate chips.  Cookie dough will be very soft.
    5. Drop the cookie dough by heaping tablespoonfuls or a small cookie scoop onto the prepared baking sheet.
    6. Bake for 10-11 minutes until the edges are set.
    7. Let them cool 3-4 minutes on the baking sheet before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.
    8. The cookies will flatten out a bit while they cool.

    Awesome Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Cookies

    Now, back to making these pumpkin cookies!  Perfect for Halloween and the fall baking season!  These go fast!  Enjoy this Fluffy Pumpkin Dip and these Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars!

     Want Some More Pumpkin!

    • Old Fashioned Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
    • Pumpkin Cheesecake Swirl Brownies
    • Rustic Pumpkin Trail Mix Cookies 
    • Pumpkin Magic Custard Cake
    • Sheet Pan Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
    • "CopyCat" Starbucks Pumpkin Pound Cake
    • Soft Batch Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies {Eggless too!}
    • Pumpkin Cheesecake Pie
    • Mini Pumpkin Pies are always a hit too!
    Awesome Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Cookies

    Awesome Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Cookies

    Kim Lange
    Soft, exquisite pumpkin cookies adorned with luscious chocolate chips are AWESOME! Just in time for the 'pumpkin everything' season and one of the our favorite ways we like to incorporate pumpkin is in cookies!
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    Prep Time 7 mins
    Cook Time 10 mins
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    Ingredients
      

    • 1 cup butter softened
    • 1 cup granulated sugar
    • ½ cup brown sugar
    • 1 cup canned pumpkin puree
    • 2 teaspoons vanilla
    • 2 tablespoons water or milk
    • 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
    • ½ teaspoon baking powder
    • ½ teaspoon baking soda
    • ½ teaspoon salt
    • ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
    • ½ teaspoon pumpkin spice
    • ¾ cups Ghirardelli 60% bittersweet semi-sweet chocolate chips

    Instructions
     

    • Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Line baking sheet with parchment paper or spray with non-stick spray.
    • Using a mixer, in a bowl, cream together the butter and sugars until light and fluffy.
    • Add pumpkin, vanilla and water, and mix until combined.
    • Add in the flour, baking powder, soda, salt, cinnamon and pumpkin spice to the pumpkin batter and mix until combined. Stir in the chocolate chips.
    • Drop the cookie dough by heaping tablespoonfuls or a small cookie scoop onto the prepared baking sheet.
    • Bake for 10-11 minutes until the edges are set.
    • Let them cool 3-4 minutes on the baking sheet before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.
    • The cookies will flatten out a bit while they cool.

    Notes

    Cookie dough will be very soft.
    Tried This Recipe?Let us know how it was by commenting below!

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    Hi! I'm Kim! As you may know, I'm cookie, brownie and chocolate obsessed! You'll find hundreds of decadent and healthy dessert recipes to choose from here! So, let's bake something easy and never forget the chocolate!

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    1. ChocolaTess says

      November 04, 2016 at 10:50 pm

      Thank you Genie! You should try them. 😉 Thanks for being so sweet!

    2. Genie says

      November 04, 2016 at 8:54 pm

      I love pumpkin chocolate chip cookies! Yours look great.

    3. ChocolaTess says

      November 02, 2016 at 12:27 pm

      Thank you Kelly! 🙂 We can never have enough pumpkin facts or cookies!

    4. Kelly Lynn's Sweets and Treats says

      November 02, 2016 at 12:54 am

      Fun pumpkin facts AND a yummy recipe!! Thank you!

    5. ChocolaTess says

      November 01, 2016 at 7:07 pm

      Thank you Teresa! They definitely get gobbled up quickly!

    6. ChocolaTess says

      November 01, 2016 at 7:06 pm

      I'm with you Joanne! <3

    7. teresa says

      November 01, 2016 at 6:11 pm

      I'll take a dozen. 🙂

    8. Joanne says

      November 01, 2016 at 5:34 pm

      These cookies do look awesome! Anything with chocolate added is a win to me! Lol

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