This recipe for soft batch, pumpkin chocolate chip cookies with the perfect blend of spices is a wonderful combination of pumpkin, spice, and chocolate chips. If you love pumpkin and chocolate, you'll love these delicious, adult and kid-approved cookies that are quick and easy to make!
Servings 3dozen
Ingredients
2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
1teaspoonbaking soda
1teaspoon baking powder
1Tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
½ teaspoon salt
1 ½cupsgranulated sugar
½ cupbutter,softened
1cuppure pumpkin puree (I use Libby’s 100% pure pumpkin)
1largeegg
1teaspoonpure vanilla extract
1cup semi- sweet chocolate chips (mini chocolate chips or regular)
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees f. then grease baking sheet(s) or use parchment paper.
In a medium size bowl, add flour, baking soda, baking powder, pumpkin pie spice and salt – mix well.
In a separate large bowl, mix/beat butter and sugar until blended well, then add pumpkin, egg and vanilla, mix until batter is smooth.
Slowly add flour mixture to the pumpkin batter, mixing until just blended - do not over mix.
Last, add chocolate chips until evenly blended - do not over mix.
Drop rounded tablespoon size cookie dough on baking sheet (I use a Pampered Chef medium size scooper).
Bake on the middle rack of the oven for approximately 15 – 18 minutes, until the edges of the cookies turn a slight golden brown and are firm.
Remove from oven, cool for a few minutes on baking sheet, then move cookies to a cooling rack to finish cooling. Enjoy
Notes
You can use mini or regular size semi-sweet chocolate chips.Be sure to use 100% Pure Pumpkin Purée, NOT Pumpkin Pie Mix!This wonderful recipe is adapted from Old-Fashioned Soft Pumpkin Cookies by Very Best Baking, Nestle