CAUTION: These cookies are highly addictive!! Even my dad, who refuses to eat anything vegan and identifies highly with Ron Swanson [see Parks and Rec], cannot get enough of them even though he knows they are vegan!
After baking these cookies year-after-year for Christmas presents and parties, I have a few tips to add!
- Using metal sheets helps make the cookies more cake-like which seems to be the most popular. Bake time will vary depending on sheet type
- One 15 oz can of pumpkin puree makes about 5-6 dozen cookies
- I use mini chips so there are more chocolate chips per cookie
Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup canned pumpkin
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 1 Tbsp applesauce
- 1/2 Tbsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup flour
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp Pumpkin Pie Spice, or 1/8 tsp each of ginger, cloves, all-spice
- 1/2 cup vegan chocolate chips (my favorite are Enjoy Life chips, also any milk-free chocolate works, most dark chocolates are vegan)
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Stir thoroughly pumpkin, sugar, oil, applesauce, and vanilla.
- In a separate bowl, stir thoroughly flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, and other spices.
- Slowly pour flour mixture into pumpkin mixture and blend well.
- Once all the flour mixture is blended, stir in the chocolate chips.
- Scoop dough in 1-inch balls onto a lightly greased cookie sheet spaced 1 inch apart, they don’t expand too much.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes based on desired texture.
Makes approximately one dozen cookies.
Enjoy!!
Vegan Living by Danielle 