Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies (Gluten-Free, Vegan)

These gluten-free, vegan pumpkin chocolate chip cookies are light, fluffy, and brimming with warm pumpkin spice. They're also free of refined sugar.

Packed with oat flour, and a whole can of pumpkin, these pumpkin cookies are a healthy treat, snack, or even breakfast.

And, I can't blame you if you're making them non-stop. Nothing says fall like a thick and soft pumpkin cookie oozing with dark chocolate.

You'll love this recipe because:

• It's a seasonal favorite with just the right amount of pumpkin-spiced flavor.
• It's healthy, egg-free, dairy-free, and has no flour.
• It can be made oil-free too.

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Directions

Here's how to make gluten-free, vegan pumpkin cookies with chocolate chips:

Start by making your flax eggs and set them aside for 10 minutes to thicken. You'll need two bowls for this recipe. In the first bowl, whisk all the dry ingredients: oat flour, baking powder, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice, and salt. In the second bowl, whisk together the pumpkin, syrup, oil or applesauce, and flax eggs once they've thickened.

Next, add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir with a spatula until thoroughly combined and no floury bits remain at the bottom of the bowl.

Add the dark chocolate chips and stir again to incorporate the chocolate chips evenly throughout the batter.

This will be a very wet dough. Once all the ingredients are combined, allow the batter to rest for 10  minutes so that the oat flour can absorb some of the moisture. This will help the pumpkin cookies hold their shape when they're scooped onto the tray for baking.

Use a 2-tablespoon cookie scoop (or a good old spoon) and scoop even-sized balls of dough onto a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.

Bake at 350F for 10-12 minutes, or until they spring back when pressed lightly. These pumpkin cookies have a cake-like texture and will be the same shape as when you put them in the oven. Transfer to a wire rack to cool.

Expert Tips & Tricks

• These pumpkin cookies are made with oat flour.  You can make your own by grinding whole oats in a blender until powdered or buy oat flour already ground. Making your own oat flour is easy and much less expensive than buying it already ground, but either one will work.
• I usually make these with oil to add some fat to my diet, but substituting applesauce works just as well if you're avoiding oil.
• These pumpkin cookies are low in sugar and contain only about a teaspoon of maple syrup per cookie. The dark chocolate chips give them extra sweetness. But, if you like things a little sweeter, you can add up to ¼ cup of coconut or other granulated sugar without affecting the dough.
• I highly recommend using a 1.5-2 tablespoon cookie scoop to scoop the dough. This will give you evenly portioned cookies and give them a nice rounded dome. If the dough becomes too sticky while scooping the cookies, place the cookie scoop in a glass of water every few cookies. 
• This will stop the dough from sticking.
• These cookies do not spread, so you can place them close together on the cookie sheet.

So, what are you waiting for? These pumpkin chocolate chip cookies are waiting for you. Make them. Eat them. Enjoy!

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