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healthy pumpkin cookies topped with chocolate chips

Healthy Pumpkin Cookies

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These Healthy Pumpkin Cookies are perfectly soft with just the right amount of pumpkin and spice! These cookies are incredibly simple to make and at just 65 calories per cookie you can't go wrong - even if you ate two or three in one sitting! 
Course Dessert, Snack
Cuisine American
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 8 minutes
Total Time 18 minutes
Servings 12 cookies
Calories 65
Author Kim

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 cups old fashioned rolled oats or 1 cup oat flour
  • 1/4 cup protein powder or additional 1/4 cup oat flour
  • 3/4 cup sweetener that measures like sugar (coconut sugar, regular or brown sugar work too!)
  • 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice or additional cinnamon
  • 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce
  • 1/2 cup canned pumpkin
  • 1 large egg white
  • chocolate chips for topping

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray baking sheet with cooking spray or line with parchment paper. Set aside. If using rolled oats, use a food processor or blender to grind them to a flour-like consistency. In a medium mixing bowl, mix together dry ingredients.
    mixing dry and wet ingredients for pumpkin cookies in a mixing bowl
  • Create a well in the center of the dry ingredients and stir together wet ingredients. Then stir the entire mixture together. It will seem very dry at first, keep stirring. Use your spoon to press the wet pumpkin mixture into the dry flour. It will become batter-like eventually.
    stirring pumpkin cookie batter with a wooden spoon
  • Scoop 1/8 cup (or 2 tablespoons) of dough onto baking sheet per cookie. Dough is very sticky - it helps to dampen your fingers and use them to flatten them out slightly, as they don't spread much. Press 4-5 chocolate chips into each cookie before baking, and bake for 8-10 minutes, or until set. Enjoy!
    healthy pumpkin cookies on a sheet pan

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Notes

Storing pumpkin protein cookies: Unlike most cookie recipes, these pumpkin cookies do not store well beyond a day at room temperature. Because of the canned pumpkin and how moist these cookies are, they tend to get sticky when kept at room temperature for very long. It's best to store the cookies in the refrigerator after the first day.

Nutrition

Serving: 1Cookie | Calories: 65kcal | Carbohydrates: 13.5g | Protein: 3.3g | Fat: 1.2g | Saturated Fat: 0.3g | Cholesterol: 2.8mg | Sodium: 65.7mg | Potassium: 33.4mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 1.9g | Vitamin A: 880IU | Vitamin C: 0.4mg | Calcium: 12mg | Iron: 0.5mg