Spiced Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe
These cookies are a great way to use pumpkin in a way that allows the pumpkin to shine without intimidating non-pumpkin eaters. Their cakey texture more similar to a muffin top than a traditional cookie but that doesn’t seem to stop the cookies from disappearing.
- 1 cup fresh pureed (or canned) pumpkin
- 1 cup cane sugar
- 1/2 cup natural applesauce
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 egg
- 1 1/2 cup unbleached all purpose flour (KA)
- 1/2 cup whole wheat flour (KA)
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon milk
- 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
- Combine pumpkin, sugar, vegetable oil (applesauce), vanilla and egg.
- In a separate bowl, stir together flour, baking powder, ground cinnamon, and salt.
- Dissolve the baking soda with the milk and stir in.
- Add flour mixture to pumpkin mixture and mix well.
- Add chocolate chips and mix.
- Drop by spoonful on parchment paper and bake at 365° F for approximately 10 minutes or until lightly brown and firm.
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Question - In step #3 (milk and soda) which does it get stirred into? Bowl #1 (pumpkin, etc.) or Bowl #2 (Flour, etc.) ??