These are the best pumpkin chocolate chip cookies! Soft and chewy with pumpkin spice flavor and chocolate chips, they will be your new favorite cozy fall cookie recipe.
If you love the pumpkin, don’t miss my pumpkin cookies with cream cheese frosting, pumpkin chocolate chip muffins and chocolate chip pumpkin bread.
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Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
While I have so many fall favorites to bake every year, these are hands down on my list every year. They are THE BEST pumpkin chocolate chip cookies out there!
These chocolate chip pumpkin cookies are so soft and moist and have the perfect light, fluffy, and cake-like texture. They will definitely become your new favorite pumpkin recipe!
Why I Love This Cookie Recipe
- Quick and easy! This fall cookie recipe is simple and ready in an hour with no chilling! Combine all the ingredients in a bowl and place on a cookie sheet to bake.
- Soft and chewy. These pumpkin chocolate chip cookies are the best way to enjoy moist, chewy cookies that are loaded with chocolate chips.
Recipe Ingredients
These homemade pumpkin chocolate chip cookies are easy to make with fall favorites like pumpkin and cozy spices!
Find the full printable recipe with specific measurements below.
- Baking staples: All-purpose flour, granulated sugar, baking soda, baking powder, egg, milk, and vanilla.
- Pumpkin: 100% pure pumpkin puree (not pumpkin pie filling) gives the best pumpkin flavor. Buy canned puree, or make homemade pumpkin puree from scratch.
- Oil: Used to help moisten the texture of the cookies. Both vegetable oil and canola oil will work in this pumpkin chocolate chip cookie recipe.
- Spices: A mix of cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice, and sea salt helps give these cookies a warm and delicious fall flavor.
- Chocolate: I like to use a mix of semi-sweet chocolate chips and milk chocolate chips, but feel free to use one or the other if preferred or even chocolate chunks.
How to Make Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Wet ingredients. Combine pumpkin puree, sugar, oil, vanilla, and egg in a large bowl until smooth. In a separate bowl, dissolve baking soda with milk and then stir the mixture into the wet ingredients.
- Dry ingredients. In a separate large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and spices. Add flour mixture to wet ingredients and stir together until you only see a few flour streaks in the dough.
- Fold and scoop. Gently fold the chocolate chips into the dough and then use a cookie scoop or a spoon to scoop the dough onto a prepared cookie sheet.
- Bake. Bake at 350°F for about 10 to 13 minutes until the cookie bottoms are light golden. Remove from oven and cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack.
Tips and Variations
- Don’t overmix. Mix the batter until you see a little flour left, then fold in the chocolate chips. This ensures soft and fluffy pumpkin chocolate chip cookies.
- Cookie scoop. Scoop dough with a medium cookie scoop. This is a softer dough that is a bit sticky to the touch, so using a scoop helps give that round cookie shape.
- Make it look pretty! Press extra chocolate chips on the top of the dough right before going into the oven. It ensures you have more chocolaty goodness in each bite.
- Softer cookie. For a softer cookie, you can dissolve the baking soda with a teaspoon of milk and stir into the wet ingredients (instead of adding to the dry ingredients).
- Cake mix. If you’re short on time these cake mix pumpkin cookies have only 3 ingredients but the same fall flavor!
- Icing. These chocolate chip pumpkin cookies would also taste delicious topped with a rich cream cheese frosting or even a smoother cream cheese glaze.
- Add-ins: Add oats for a pumpkin oatmeal chocolate chip cookie variation, or try some nuts, raisins or additional warm fall spices.
Storing + Freezing
Once they have baked and cooled, store the cookies in a covered container for up to 4 days. The longer they sit, the more flavor they develop. I might even argue that they taste even better the next day.
You may also freeze the baked cookies for up to 3 months. When ready to enjoy, let thaw on the counter until no longer frozen.
Craving more cookie recipes? Try my pumpkin oatmeal cookies, best chocolate chip cookies, or double chocolate cookies recipe next!
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Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Ingredients
- 1 cup canned pumpkin puree , don't use the whole can
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup vegetable oil , can sub with canola oil
- 1 large egg
- 1 Tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon milk
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice , add an extra teaspoon if you like extra spice
- ½ teaspoon fine sea salt
- 1-2 cups chocolate chips , I like to mix semi-sweet and milk chocolate, plus more for topping
Instructions
- Prep. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a baking mat.
- Wet ingredients. In a large bowl, stir together 1 cup canned pumpkin, 1 cup sugar, 1/2 cup vegetable oil, 1 Tablespoon vanilla and 1 egg until smooth. In a small bowl, dissolve 1 teaspoon baking soda in 1 teaspoon milk and stir into the wet ingredients.
- Dry ingredients. In a separate large bowl, mix 2 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice, and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Stir the flour mixture into the pumpkin mixture just until you see a few flour streaks. Fold in 1-2 cups chocolate chips until just combined. Do not overmix.
- Bake. Using a medium cookie scoop or a spoon, drop cookies about 2 inches apart on the baking sheet. Add a few extra chocolate chips to the tops, if desired. Bake 10 to 13 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean and the bottoms are lightly brown. Check 1 and bake 1 to 2 more minutes if the center is not quite done.
- Cool. Let cool 5 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack to cool completely.
Notes
- chopped nuts
- frost with a cream cheese frosting
- use a homemade pumpkin pie spice (add an extra teaspoon if desired)
Nutrition
Nutrition provided is an estimate. It will vary based on specific ingredients used.
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Recipe FAQs
If you would like to use butter, make my pumpkin cookies with cream cheese frosting. Omit the frosting and add chocolate chips.
These cookies should be anything but dry! The beauty of these cookies is how moist, soft, and tender they are.
If yours turns dry, you likely overmixed the dough or measured your flour incorrectly. Mix the dough just until combined (a few streaks of flour are okay) and measure the flour using the spoon and level technique for the most accurate results.
Once they have baked and cooled, store the cookies in a covered container for up to 4 days. The longer they sit, the more flavor they develop. I might even argue that they taste even better the next day. You can also freeze baked cookies up to 3 months.
Yes! I love to freeze cookie dough. Just be sure to scoop them first before freezing. Bake from frozen adding a few minutes to the baking time.
Categorized as: American, Chocolate, Chocolate Chip Cookies, Cookies, Desserts, Freezer-Friendly, Halloween, Holiday Cookies, Kid-Friendly, Nut-Free, Reader Favorites, Vegetarian
Jamielyn Nye is the founder and recipe creator at I Heart Naptime. She is the author of the I Heart Naptime Cookbook and shares easy family-friendly recipes and desserts for every occasion.
Are the nutrition facts per cookie?
Yes, correct :)
Could you send me the old recipe as well? I made the new recipe, and didn’t prefer the recipe with the milk mixed with the baking soda.
Yes, I will send it to you :)
We did make these cookies and thoroughly enjoyed eating them, but because one of us is diabetic, we made changes. If you are curious as to what changes, feel free to contact us.
I’m glad you were able to make them work for you, Tammy :) Thanks for your comment and review!
How much is 1 can of pumpkin purée? I have 15 oz can and 29 oz cans
I use a 15 oz can, but you don’t need to use the whole can for this recipe. Only 1 cup pumpkin puree :)
Hi! Can you please send the old recipe to me as well? I believe I used milk previously!
Thank you!
These are very yummy cookies. Not at all hard, but soft and fluffy. I cut the sugar in half and used 1/2 cup chocolate chips instead of 2 cups and they were perfect.
I’m so glad you enjoyed them, Sondra :)
Yes please !:)
Very good. The dough seemed very wet, so I added about 6 T flour. Half of us liked the recipe better than other recipes, we have tried before, half of us liked the other recipes better. Thank you.
Thanks for your comment, Tanya! I’m glad they were a hit :)
Would it be ok if I use glutin free flour?
I haven’t tried, but let me know how it goes if you do!
these cookies were full of flavor and very soft indeed… but they were NOTHING like the cookies im used to baking, these were more similar to muffins or pumpkin bread because they were so fluffy and didn’t have that crispy edge like your average cookies, if you love soft, muffin-like cookies then these are for you!
Thanks for your comment, Sally! Yes, the moisture in the pumpkin helps give them a super soft and fluffy texture :)
Absolutely delicious!! I omitted the salt. Love the combination of semi and milk chocolate chips.
I’m so glad you loved them :)
Yum! I wrote this recipe for my dessert cookbook and the recipe looks funky!
I just took the first batch out of the oven. OMG! These are hands down the BEST cookie I ever made! I doubled the amount of ingredients and followed the recipe to the tee. But I didn’t have 4 cups of chocolate chips only 2 so Ihad 1 cup of butterscotch chips in my cupboard and threw them in. I will definitely be making this recipe ALOT this fall. Love, Love LOVE!!!! Thank you Jamielyn!!111
Yay, this makes me so happy to hear!! I’ll have to try butterscotch chips sometime. Thanks for your nice comment, Gail :)
This is absolutely delicious! I love that it’s such a crowd pleaser for the whole family
So glad you enjoyed them :)
These cookies are amazing. Texture, flavors, everything. I used coconut sugar and they turned perfect. This recipe is a keeper. Thanks!
This makes me so happy to hear, Natalie. Thanks for your comment :)
I made this for the office and they all agreed that it was hands down the best cookie they’d eaten! Thanks for a great crowd pleaser!
This makes me so happy to hear! Thanks for your comment, Cyndi :)
I made this recipe last year, multiple times, and had to come back to make it again this year! My entire family loves these cookies and I think they are my favorite kind! My siblings and I love pumpkin spice things so we loved these. Can’t wait to make them again!
Yay, this makes me so happy to hear!! Can’t wait for ALL the pumpkin recipes :)
I loved these cookies! Easy and delicious!
They are a favorite at our house too! :)