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Chewy Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies

October 11, 2020 By Kristy Richardson Leave a Comment

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Pumpkin oatmeal cookies are chewy and a little bit crispy, with the perfect amount of pumpkin spice flavor. Make this delicious and cozy fall cookie anytime you’re craving pumpkin!.

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Have you been feeling in a fall mood yet? Here in Arizona it stays pretty warm through most of the beginning of fall. But being originally from the midwest I can’t help but start thinking about baked apple, warm sweaters and pumpkin spice.

These chewy pumpkin oatmeal cookies are soft with just the right amount of pumpkin spice flavor. So it means we can start fall a little early whether the leaves are changing or not.

If you prefer your pumpkin cookies a little more on the cakey side, try my soft pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. The cookies I’m sharing today have oatmeal which gives them more of a chewy texture.

Ingredients for pumpkin oatmeal cookies

Ingredients for pumpkin oatmeal cookies with chocolate chips
  • Butter-softened, unsalted butter is preferred so your cookies don’t end up too salty. If you use salted butter don’t add the salt below
  • White sugar
  • Brown sugar
  • Egg
  • Vanilla– use the good stuff, not imitation if you can
  • Pumpkin– canned or fresh pureed- blot away some of the moisture with a paper towel before adding this ingredient to the dough.
  • Flour
  • Rolled oats– Sometimes also called old-fashioned oats. Quick oats can be substituted, but the cookies will lose some of the chewy texture.
  • Baking soda
  • Cinnamon– pumpkin pie spice can be substituted spoonful for spoonful for the cinnamon and nutmeg.
  • Nutmeg
  • Salt– only if using unsalted butter
  • Chocolate chips– (optional)

How To Make These Pumpkin Cookies! (With Optional Chocolate Chips)

Step by step mixing cookie dough, first wet ingredients, then dry ingredients and chocoalte chips.
  1. Cream together the softened butter, brown sugar and white sugar.
  2. Add the egg and vanilla to the dough and mix, then add the pumpkin to the dough and mix again.
  3. In a separate bowl mix together the dry ingredients such as flour, rolled oats, and spices, then add these ingredients to the dough.
  4. Fold in the chocolate chips to the dough (nuts or cranberries can also be substituted)
  5. Chill the dough for 30 minutes, then portion our dough into cookies on the pan lined with parchment paper.
  6. Bake in a 350-degree oven for 20-25 minutes. Enjoy!
Two pictures, one portioning out pumpkin cookie dough, and the second baked pumpkin oatmeal cookies on the pan.

The trick for making these pumpkin cookies extra chewy

One of the things that can turn these cookies into more of a cakey cookie then chewy is too much moisture.

While the oats do absorb quite a bit of the moisture in this recipe, sometimes the pumpkin holds too much moisture. It can actually vary from pumpkin to pumpkin how much moisture is inside!

Blotting the pumpkin on a paper towel removes that excess moisture and can result in a more chewy pumpkin cookie.

You can use canned pumpkin purree, or even your own fresh

These pumpkin pie frozen bites give you all the flavor of pumpkin pie in a cute little frozen bite. This recipe is fun for kids too!

cookies cooling on a wire rack from overhead

My pumpkin cookies are spreading too much!

Like most butter-based cookie doughs, chilling the dough can be super important to helping keep the cookies from spreading too much. Chilling the dough helps the butter start to become a little more solid again within the dough.

If your butter is too soft, your cookies might spread a little extra. You can put the dough in the fridge for longer than 30 minutes, in the freezer, or even pop the whole pan full of balls of cookie dough in the freezer before baking. Cooling the dough a little extra can help save a batch of cookies that are spreading too much.

Love fall desserts? Check out my cozy apple crisp pizza or apple walnut cake. Or my giant list of my favorite pumpkin desserts!

Oatmeal Pumpkin Cookies

Kristy Richardson
Pumpkin oatmeal cookies are chewy and a little bit crispy, with the perfect amount of pumpkin spice flavor. Make this delicious and cozy fall cookie anytime you’re craving pumpkin!.
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PREP TIME 20 mins
COOK TIME 20 mins
Chilling the dough 30 mins
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 20 Cookies
Calories 119 kcal

Equipment

  • Oven
  • parchment paper
  • Silicone spatula
  • Measuring cups and spoons
  • Large Mixing Bowl
  • Medium sized mixing bowl
  • Cookies scoop (1 1/2 tablespoons dough)

Ingredients
  

  • ½ cup butter softened
  • ½ cup white sugar
  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • ½ cup pumpkin puree- blotted blot the pumpkin with a paper towel, see notes for more details.
  • 1 cups flour
  • ¾ cup rolled oats sometimes these are called "old fashioned oats"
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoons cinnamon
  • ½ teaspoon nutmeg
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • ½ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
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Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 350F. Layer a cookie sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
  • In a large mixing bowl cream together the butter and the white and brown sugar.
  • Add the egg and vanilla to the butter and sugar mixture until mixed. Then stir in the pumpkin to the wet batter.
  • In a medium bowl mix together the flour, oatmeal, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt.
  • Stir the dry flour and oatmeal mixture into the wet pumpkin batter a little at a time just until a dough forms and all their is no visable flour.
  • Fold in the chocolate chips into the cookie dough.
  • Chill the dough for 30 minutes in the refridgerator.
  • Drop batter with a cookie scoop by the spoonful onto the cookie sheet covered in parchment paper.
  • Bake for 18-21 minutes until cookies are soft and chewy, then enjoy!

Notes

  • The butter should be soft enough if you press your finger into it, there is an indentation. Try chopping it into 8-12 pieces to speed up the softening, and then leaving it on the counter to soften for 5-10 minutes.
  • These aren’t super chocolatey cookies to let the pumpkin spice flavors and chewiness of the oatmeal shine. If you prefer more chocolate add a little more chocolate chips to the batter.
  • You can also substitute nuts for the chocolate chips, or leave them out entirely. Chopped walnuts or chopped pecans are both delicious in these cookies. I also like dried cranberries in this cookie.
  • The most common standard-sized cookie scoops use about 1 1/2 tablespoons of dough. If scoops with a spoon, measure the first dough ball and then make the rest about the same size.

Nutrition

Calories: 119kcal
Keyword oatmeal cookies, pumpkin cookies, pumpkin dessert
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