A must-make fall recipe to add to your list is this one, for easy gluten free pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. Not only are they gluten-free, they’re also vegan, and they’re soft on the inside with a bit of crispiness on the outside.
They’re packed with warm pumpkin spices and loaded with chocolate chips. You, your family, and your friends will love them!
Ingredients You’ll Need :
All you need to make these cookies is 10 ingredients, and as you know, this recipe is both vegan and gluten-free, so they’re 100% egg-free, wheat-free, and dairy-free.
Ingredient Notes
- 1:1 Gluten-Free Flour Blend (I use Bob’s Red Mill brand, the one in the BLUE bag, make sure to measure it correctly!)
- Pumpkin Purée (NOT pumpkin pie filling)
- Brown and Granulated Sugar (not sure if you’re sugar is vegan? Buy organic, it will be 100% vegan (I use organic cane sugar for this recipe))
- Unsalted Vegan Butter (use your favourite brand or see below for some recommendations)
- Vanilla Extract (for more flavour)
- Pumpkin Pie Spice (you can’t make a pumpkin recipe without this spice blend!)
- Baking Soda (make sure it’s fresh!)
- Salt (to balance the sweetness)
- Chocolate Chips (the ingredient that makes this recipe perfect)
How to Make Them !
This recipe is easy, there’s nothing unusual about it, and whether you’ve made cookies before or not, you’ll breeze right through!
Start by mixing all of the dry ingredients together in a bowl and then setting it aside.
Once you’ve done that, cream the butter and both sugars together, I use my electric hand mixer to do this.
Next, add the pumpkin purée and the vanilla to the butter mixture and mix again until everything has combined.
For this next step, I switch over to using a wooden spoon to avoid flour flying everywhere. Gradually add the flour mixture and mix until everything has combined. Then fold in the chocolate chips.
Something important to know is that these cookies don’t flatten or spread much while baking, so you need to give them a little help. The size and shape they go into the oven with is the same one they’ll come out with.
Use a cookie scoop or a tablespoon to scoop the cookie dough out onto the baking sheet and once you’ve done that, flatten each one slightly using the back of a spoon, the bottom of a glass, or your hand, they should look like the picture below on the right.
The next step is to, of course, bake them, and when they’re done, you’ll have a batch of golden, delicious vegan gluten free pumpkin cookies that you’re going to have a hard time controlling yourself around!
What Do They Taste Like?
They’re spiced perfectly (the spice flavour comes through even more the day after you make them), and each bite has chocolate. Pumpkin and chocolate are a nice combo (like in my pumpkin chocolate bread!)
