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

Recipe Snapshot

  • Prep time: 30 minutes
  • Cook time: 20 minutes
  • Total time: 50 minutes
  • Yield: 6
  • Category: Cookie
  • Cuisine: American

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

Method

  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.

Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note

Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.