Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

October 23rd, 2009 | Filed under: breakfast, dessert, recipe, sides & bites | Tags: , , ,

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

If you like fall and pumpkins and seasonal food, then these cookies have your name written all over them. As I’ve mentioned many times before, dessert isn’t really my thing. But cookies are. I love cookies. Soft and chewy and filled with chocolate chips – cookies are my weakness.

They’re easy and delicious and they make your house smell like a bakery. These pumpkin cookies also take less butter than regular cookies, though not on purpose. The pumpkin just adds enough moisture, so you only have to use one measly stick of butter. A touch of cinnamon adds that subtle fall flavor without overpowering the cookie or competing with the chocolate.

In a word, they’re awesome. They’re perfect for the season. I love them. And you should love them too!

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
I used Demerara sugar because it has a little bit of molasses flavor, which goes great with pumpkin. You can use regular cane sugar if your prefer.

1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter at room temperature
1 cup Demerara sugar (see note above)
1 egg
1 cup pureed pumpkin (I used canned because it’s less watery)
1 tsp. vanilla extract

2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
1 tsp. salt
2 tsp. baking powder

2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips

Preheat your oven to 350° and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.

In a medium bowl whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon until evenly combined. Set aside.

Cream the butter and sugar in your electric mixer with the paddle attachment (or use a hand mixer, or whisk vigorously by hand). Add the egg, then scrape the sides down and add the pumpkin and vanilla. Mix until incorporated.

Carefully, add the dry ingredients to the wet ones, stirring with the mixer or by hand until your dough forms. Fold in the chocolate chips until evenly distributed throughout the dough.

Use a small spoon to measure out little dough balls onto the prepared cookie sheet. With wet hands, press each dough ball down to form a small disc. Bake for 12 – 13 minutes in the center oven. Because of the pumpkin, you’ll have to bake these a little longer than usual or they’ll be too raw in the middle. They’re done when they begin to just crisp and lightly brown around the edges.

Makes about 3 dozen cookies.

18 Comments on “Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies”

  1. 1 France said at 12:02 pm on October 23rd, 2009:

    Thanks for the recipe :) I already made a recipe of pumpkin cookies a few years ago and I loved it. But other recipes with pumpkin, it’s not really my thing. I may try your recipe later. I’ll buy a pumpkin for Halloween and I’ll make puree with it :)

  2. 2 Kelly said at 12:14 pm on October 23rd, 2009:

    These sound amazing! I don’t bake much, but I think I’ll make an exception this weekend to entertain myself on Sunday while my guy is watching football.

  3. 3 Ramya Kiran said at 12:58 pm on October 23rd, 2009:

    Cookies look simply delicious!

  4. 4 scott said at 8:57 pm on October 23rd, 2009:

    I made these tonight for Steph, Matt, Phaedra, Mo, Donny and Howie (ITP ’05 and aught-four represent!). They were AWESOME. Used whole wheat flour, but still a massive hit.

  5. 5 Jen said at 10:57 am on October 24th, 2009:

    Love the idea of theses cookies!

  6. 6 Melificent said at 8:37 pm on October 25th, 2009:

    DELICIOUS.
    This were amazing, Mel. I’m going to feature them on my blog this week :)

  7. 7 Substitue Chef said at 7:22 am on October 29th, 2009:

    I was looking for something that could suit as prizes for my halloween lesson tomorrow because my supermarket stopped selling the halloween shaped cookies today (I’m in Japan, although they have some halloween stuff in stores, it’s really just a nod to the fact that it’s celebrated in the West, they don’t so anything) and these should be perfect.

  8. 8 Lovable Friday: Halloween Edition « Melificent said at 7:39 am on October 30th, 2009:

    [...] Camero, has a delicious foodie blog where she shares her excellent recipes. This week, she made pumpkin chocolate chip cookies and as yummy as they looked on the screen, I can tell you that they tasted even better in my mouth! [...]

  9. 9 jamie said at 3:22 pm on October 31st, 2009:

    oooooh. I saw this when you posted it last week, but it wasn’t until this morning that I got an itch to make pumpkin puree to bake with. I just pulled the first dozen out of the oven and so far they’re delicious. I think I’m making them a little too big but oh well!

  10. 10 CookiePie said at 9:16 am on November 3rd, 2009:

    Beautiful!! Love the pumpkin-chocolate combo. Must try these!

  11. 11 Halloween Goodies « Saccharine Seduction said at 9:34 pm on November 3rd, 2009:

    [...] we have the chocolate chip pumpkin cookie from bitchincamero, loaded with green chile sugar (my personal addition).  These are moist and very cakey, along the [...]

  12. 12 mish mash « foodie suz said at 2:14 pm on November 7th, 2009:

    [...] of All Things Chocolate, David Lebovitz.  And from the alluring blog name of bitchincamero, comes Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies – slightly orange-tinged and mildly pumpkin [...]

  13. 13 your sweet tooth « foodie suz said at 2:15 pm on November 7th, 2009:

    [...] of All Things Chocolate, David Lebovitz.  And from the alluring blog name of bitchincamero, comes Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies – slightly orange-tinged and mildly pumpkin [...]

  14. 14 Emily said at 10:50 pm on November 9th, 2009:

    I tried to do this with margarine… the first batch came out kind of funky, so i added oatmeal, walnuts, ground cloves, nutmeg, fresh ginger, and a heap of brown sugar. Delicious!

  15. 15 Micheal said at 12:15 pm on November 10th, 2009:

    Thanks for this cool informations.

  16. 16 Emma said at 10:19 am on November 15th, 2009:

    Hey, been meaning to make this for a while and today I got the chance. Like others I used wholewheat flour – I also halved the amount of chocolate. Came out absolutely perfect and taste amazing. Not sure if they will last for my workmates tomorrow.

  17. 17 Adam said at 9:10 pm on November 21st, 2009:

    This was really good! It is a bit more cake-like, but we liked that a lot. We made one batch as is, and in the other batch added oatmeal, which made it more cookie-like. Our friends preferred the oatmeal batch so might be worth trying that.

  18. 18 Holistic Freedom said at 11:54 am on July 30th, 2010:

    Decadent No Bake Chocolate Cookies…

    I found your entry interesting thus I’ve added a Trackback to it on my weblog :)…

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