Get your pumpkin and chocolate fix with a creamy, melt-in-your-mouth Healthy Pumpkin Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies. Low Calorie, Gluten Free and Vegan with a Paleo substitute!
Well, things are back to pseudo normal around here and by that I mean driving Miss Daisy (I'm Miss Daisy) and wearing my pants inside out. While it's nice having Mom around to help, I think she's playing tricks on me.
This must be the four or fifth time I've worth my gym pants inside out at the gym and haven't noticed until I got home. I want to die of embarrassment. I can only imagine what people are thinking. The gimpy girl on crutches is wearing her pants inside out again "poor girl." No wonder I can't pick up a decent guy.
I texted one of my friends who I was talking to the day I wore them inside out. Thankfully she says she never noticed. She told me she once wore her shorts inside out to spin class and no one told her. Now that would be embarrassing especially with the lined underwear sticking out and all. Eek!
Mom told me I must be turning my pants inside out when I put them in the wash, but I never do that. I think because the seam is on the outside of many of my Lulu pants she flips them on accident thinking the seam goes on the inside.
Either that or it's an evil trick she's playing on me which I wouldn't put past her. I'm going with evil trick as I found two shirts inside out this week. She's sneaky! Remind me to tell you about the time she unwrapped all her Christmas presents. I'm onto her.
Speaking of Christmas, I'll be making a lot of cookies this year for Christmas presents and these Pumpkin Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies are definitely ones to wrap in a bow or you could just make them for yourself. They're soft, creamy and melt-in-your-mouth.
Like all my pumpkin recipes, these gems don't have a pumpkin-y flavor which is a win if you're trying to eat more vegetables or just don't love pumpkin. In fact, these taste like a regular peanut butter cookie with chocolate-y goodness. You'll fool everyone with them! Happy baking!
Pumpkin Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup peanut butter unsalted & creamy (for Paleo use cashew or almond butter)
- 1/2 cup pumpkin puree
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
- 1 teaspoon almond extract
- 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
- 1/4 cup mini chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 F. While the oven is heating, place a baking sheet for the cookies in the oven.
- In a standing mixer or large bowl for a hand mixer, add all ingredients except chocolate chips. Mix to combine batter until smooth then add chips and fold into batter by hand.
- Remove the baking sheet from the oven and line with parchment paper. Place 2-3 tablespoons full of batter onto a preheated baking sheet.
- Bake at 350 F for 12-15 minutes until edges are slightly brown.
- Remove from the oven and the allow cookies to cool 5 minutes on baking sheet before removing with a spatula. They will continue cooking for those 5 minutes.
- After 5 minutes, carefully transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
- If desired, sprinkle tops of the cookies with more pumpkin pie spice and chocolate chips.
- Store in a container in the refrigerator up to one week.
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Notes
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Yum. I have all these ingredients so see some baking in my future.
I bake a lot and bring it to work. I suppose that counts as gifting food, right?? 😉
I do the same! I can't eat all that stuff.
3 of my favorite ingredients in one cookie. Yummy! Can you bake 2 dozen for me and ship asap?
Yes, I'm on it!
These look incredible! I'm supposed to be maintaining a gluten free diet but last night I was unable to turn down these fluffy, homemade cookies. I'm so making these so next time I can have my own 😉
There cookies are gluten free so you're in the clear.
That's pretty funny, Megan. Poor girl with her pants inside out ... 🙂 Happy Friday! Yummy recipe!
My life is pretty funny at times. Happy weekend lady!
Peanut butter bombs!
I should have you name my recipes from now on. Love that!
I was so excited for you to post these! Can't wait to try them out. Vegas is going to be thrilled. 🙂
Let me know what you guys think!
These look amazing! I came over from #FitnessFriday and didn't know they'd be vegan until I got here. #HappyDay!
Good thing you took a chance on them!
These cookies look delicious! And pretty easy to make. I love pumpkin everything. Saving this for later 🙂
Thanks Amanda! Hope you like them!
I'm going to say you should start bribing your mom with cookies to not turn your pants inside out 🙂 I am always putting on clothes inside out or backwards since I'm usually getting dressed and rushing out the door. I've come accustomed to checking on myself in the bathroom before I go out into "public". Hopefully you now know to look out for this! Again, just bribe people with cookies. I hope you have a fabulous weekend, I'll be spending the rest of my day thinking about these cookies! pinning!
I look at myself, but I think I'm too tired at that hour of the morning to see that. Hopefully the other gym peeps are too! As for Mom, she gets her own muffins every week!!!
Yum! I might whip up a batch of these before we hit the road for Minnesota today! Thanks for sharing!
You will love them! Perfect for road tripping.
I wore my running shorts backwards for a race once. I had no idea until I was at the start line and went to put my phone in the zipper pocket... which wasn't on the back anymore. I don't even know how I did that. I also have worn my underwear inside out on too many occasions to count... I guess I'm more tired that I realize some mornings.
For a whole race??? That had to have been really distracting running the race knowing they were like that.
yay I'm so glad this recipe is here, i have been patiently waiting 🙂 i can't believe that these are made without anytype of flour whatsoever!!! Pinning these for later 🙂
OMG...I think I've made 3 batches already. You will love them Rachel.
Hi Megan,
Came across this mouth watering recipe!!! Excited to try it out.....however, What is the sugar count/ content / amount in these cookies.....what withthe mint chocolate chips, maple syrup, almond extract et all?
Unfortunately, I was advised to cut down on sugar as I'm pre-diabetic and avoid gluten too. Wondering what I could substitue
Thanks,
Piya
Hi Piya! I've updated the nutrition content in the recipe. You can also check out these cookies which are a bit lower in sugar. https://skinnyfitalicious.com/chocolate-peanut-butter-protein-cookies/
https://skinnyfitalicious.com/pumpkin-chocolate-chip-oatmeal-cookies/
These cookies look amazing! I need to try these! So funny about the pants...I've had some close calls with wearing fitness clothes inside-out, I'm always so embarrassed!
Good thing you caught yourself!
I want these. IN MA MOUTH.
And after all the time that you guys have been spending together, she needs to have a LITTLE fun with you, right?
Haha well we have different definitions of fun. 🙂
We both posted chocolate chip cookies today! Mine have no pumpkin though, but still 🙂
I was thinking the same thing when I saw yours! It was meant to be 🙂