Healthy Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies
Soft, chewy, and healthy Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies made with wholesome ingredients. Gluten-free, kid-approved, and perfect for pumpkin spice season.
Servings: 13 cookies
Calories: 170kcal
Ingredients
- ½ cup pumpkin puree canned
- ¼ cup almond butter
- 3 tablespoon coconut oil melted
- 1 egg large
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 1 ½ cup quick oats or rolled oats
- 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup dark chocolate chips or semi-sweet
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and line a large cookie sheet with parchment paper.
- Place pumpkin puree, melted coconut oil, almond butter, egg, vanilla, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice and brown sugar in a medium mixing bowl.
- Whisk together until smooth.
- Stir in oats and chocolate chips until evenly distributed.
- Cover the bowl with a kitchen towel or plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Using a medium cookie scoop, drop 13 cookie dough balls onto the prepared cookie sheet.
- Flatten each cookie with the back of a spoon to form ½-inch thick round cookies. If the dough is sticky, wet the spoon with cold water.
- Bake in a preheated oven for 15 minutes.
- Cool on a rack for at least 20 minutes before serving,
Notes
The cookies will be very soft after 15 minutes of baking. That is normal. Let them cool to room temperature on a rack before transferring to a plate or jar.
If you don't have almond butter, peanut butter or cashew butter can be used but I find that almond butter goes best with pumpkin.
If you don't have pumpkin pie spice, swap it for ½ teaspoon cinnamon, ¼ teaspoon dried ginger and ¼ teaspoon ground cloves.
Coconut oil can be replaced with butter, if you want.
Don’t skip chilling the dough - it makes forming the cookies easier and they hold their shape better after baking.
Nutrition
Serving: 1cookie | Calories: 170kcal | Carbohydrates: 21g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 9g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Trans Fat: 0.002g | Cholesterol: 13mg | Sodium: 103mg | Potassium: 150mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 11g | Vitamin A: 1486IU | Vitamin C: 0.5mg | Calcium: 55mg | Iron: 1mg