Indulge in this taste of the season -Pumpkin Chocolate Chips Cookies- all you want; they're made with real pumpkin and oats. You'd never know how healthy they were to taste them!
Ingredients
1 1/2cupswhite whole wheator all purpose flour
1cupsugar
3/4teaspoonground cinnamon
1/4teaspoonfreshly grated nutmeg
1teaspoonbaking soda
3/4cupchilled butter
1egg
1cupfresh or canned pumpkinor butternut or acorn squash puree
1 3/4cupsrolled or quick oats
1cupchocolate chips or chocolate chunkspreferably semi-sweet
Instructions
Preheat oven to 375°F.
Whisk together the flour, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and baking soda in a large mixing bowl. Using a pastry cutter or two butterknives, cut in the butter until it the butter is pea-sized or smaller.
In a separate bowl, whisk together the pumpkin or squash puree and the egg until smooth. Add that into the dry ingredients along with the oats and chocolate chips until the mixture is evenly combined and there are no dry pockets.
Scoop onto a parchment or silpat lined baking sheet by rounded tablespoons (or with a cookie scoop/disher.) Bake for 12 minutes or until the cookies are set and lightly browned around the edges. These cookies will not flatten as they bake.
Nutritional information is an estimate and provided to you as a courtesy. You should calculate the nutritional information with the actual ingredients used in your recipe using your preferred nutrition calculator.