Soft, chewy, and decadent, these Paleo Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies will quickly become a family favorite! With thick, soft, fudgey texture and rich warm flavors, you won’t believe these cookies are grain free, dairy free, and Paleo.
More cookies, please! Yup, that’s what she said. And by “she”, I mean “me.” I hope you all can share my cookie love, because what we have on the agenda today is some serious Paleo cookie-osity. Or something similar. Go ahead, make it your own!
All eyes on the cookies now – these Paleo Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies aren’t difficult to look at, or eat – I’ll tell you that much.
The inspiration for these cookies came from three places: 1.) My pumpkin fudge cookies from last year 2.) My desire to eat chocolate everyday and 3.) The pumpkin-obsessed world we live in August-December.
I can’t lie – the pumpkin insanity this time of year makes me want to put pumpkin puree in basically everything. Everything food related, I mean. Not the bathtub or anything weird like that.
I cannot say my kids complain about all the cookies I make. Nope, they don’t even realize how good they have it! Of course, the photo below was very much staged – PLEASE do not touch mommy’s cookies before the photos are done…
The moment the “photos are done” announcement happens, of course, we’re fighting over them. The biggest, the one with the most chocolate – which would be your pick?
And, just as a side note, my kids do know what “real” gluten-filled treats taste like, and, they still truly loved these cookies. As did Adam and my parents, who also still remember the taste of non-Paleo cookies, or so I assume.
I’m honestly not sure what I’d do without my very-honest kids when it comes to recipe creation. Trust myself? Hire a taste tester? Risk my marriage by having Adam critique my recipes?
I mean, I think he’s sort of honest about what he likes, but, I prefer to trust the kids. The more they fight over who gets the last bite or the bigger piece, then I know I’ve won. The Paleo Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies win!
A quick note on this recipe – it makes a lot of cookies! I have made the recipe twice and the first I made 20, the second 24 cookies – I actually prefer bigger cookies, and, if you make them bigger the bake time won’t be much different, maybe a minute longer.
They’re super soft – in fact, they seem to get softer as they cool. They save very well in the refrigerator too which makes them perfect for after school snacks all week long. I hope you guys enjoy these as much as we do! Let’s start baking!
Paleo Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
Paleo Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 egg
- 1/3 cup smooth almond butter unsweetened
- 1/2 cup organic pumpkin puree
- 1/2 cup organic coconut sugar
- 2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 2 1/3 cups blanched almond flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- pinch fine grain sea salt
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
- 1/2 cup Enjoy Life brand dark chocolate morsels*
Instructions
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Preheat your oven to 350 degrees and line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper.
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In a large bowl, whisk together the egg, almond butter, pumpkin puree, coconut sugar and vanilla. In a separate mixing bowl, combine the blanched almond flour, sea salt, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice, and baking soda.
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Once the dry mixture is well combined, slowly mix it into the wet ingredients until fully absorbed and a cookie dough forms. Lastly, stir in the dark chocolate chips.
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The dough will be sticky - I recommend chilling it in the freezer for 10-15 minutes at this point.
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Once the dough is chilled, roll into 24 balls, or use a cookie scoop to form round, even scoops on both cookie sheets. With a separate piece of parchment paper, flatten each ball into a cookie shape of about 1/2 inch thickness.
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Bake in the preheated oven for 10-12 minutes or until just set. Remove from oven and allow to sit for a minute before transferring to wire racks to cool completely. Store leftovers covered in the refrigerator. Enjoy!
Recipe Notes
*Enjoy Life Brand chocolate chips contain no dairy or soy and have been my favorite for years! If you want to avoid cane sugar, you can make your own paleo chocolate chunks with this recipe.
Nutrition
What I Used to Make My Paleo Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies:
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ha, you know my son is brutally honest with everything I make. it’s rare that anything I make is good according to him but that’s only because healthy, organic, meatless or anything that comes from trader joe’s is bad right now. gotta love this age!
When that happens they will cook their own dinner and pay for it too, lol!
I scoured this page repeatedly, saw every ad and every pop up three or four times – but what I never found was the referenced recipe.
I like my cookie recipes to make a lot of cookies so this is a win in my book. I don’t want to go to all that trouble and end up with a dozen cookies, which will be gone in a day. Oh who am I kidding? They’ll be gone in a couple of hours. I’m not excited about having to share my cookies with Ave soon. 🙂
I hear you – a dozen doesn’t go far over here with 5 people!
I’m thankful I have really honest siblings too; sometimes it’s hard for me to take, but it’s actually really good for me. Reading your thankfulness for your kids as recipe testers made me think about my siblings in a more thankful light. Thank you! 🙂 And putting pumpkin in chocolate chip cookies isn’t a bad idea! I would love to try that.
There is definitely a line between good honest and rude honest, I try to teach my kids that when they tell me they don’t like something!
I don’t know about brutally, but my family definitely let’s me know when something isn’t too great. Although their favourite way to say it is: “Mmmm. I’m just not sure” 😆 These look amazing!
That is definitely polite of them!
These look amazing!!! Can’t wait to try after my Whole30.
Thanks Becky 🙂 Pumpkin will still be going strong after the 30 is up!
Michele, I want to eat my screen!!!!
I just look at my sister or mum’s face and it speaks volumes ha!
Haha! Totally up your alley 🙂
Hi there. I made these last night and the taste was good. The texture was not quite what I was hoping for though. I substituted a 1/4 c xylitol for the coconut sugar. They were very cake-like and kind of dry tasting. How might I achieve something more towards a standard chewy choc chip cookie? Add butter or another oil? I realized after the fact that there wasn’t much oil compared to a standard recipe. Thanks!
I’ve never used xylitol in a recipe so I’m not sure how it would react compared to coconut sugar. My favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe on the blog contain no veggies and lots of almond butter, they are definitely chewy so you might want to try them! Here’s the link: https://www.paleorunningmomma.com/ultimate-soft-and-chewy-paleo-chocolate-chip-cookies/
It’s also possible they were a bit overbaked, I find paleo cookies are really sensitive to overbaking so you may want to simply drop a minute off the baking time and see what happens.
Ok thank you!. I’ll try that one.
These cookies are amazing! Definitely going on my favorites list. Do you happen to know about how much fat and calories are in each cookie?
Omg!!! These are totally amazing! I’ve been paleo for 3 years and this is my first cookie recipe and I’m in heaven! They may not be “diet” but they are an awesome treat!!!
Yay! Thrilled you liked them!
Do you the calories per cookie by chance?
No, but an online calculator would give you a good idea: https://www.verywell.com/recipe-nutrition-analyzer-4129594
It was really good thanks for the recipe! But there was just one thing I did everything it said and it only made 18?
Depending on how big you make them I’d say 18-24 is normal so no worries 🙂 Glad you liked!
Oh my gosh these are almost too delicious! We just finished Whole 30 and felt like celebrating–glad we didn’t choose another way! These have just right amount of sweetness and a perfectly chewy texture. Will definitely make again! Thank you!
So happy you liked them!
Thank you for sharing this deliciousness with my family!
So happy you liked them!
Can I leave out the sugar or sub it for syrup or honey?
I was just scrolling because I was wondering the same thing! Did you ever try with honey by chance?
Those cookies are so delicious. But how come mine didn’t come out that pretty looking?? Lol. I did the exact same ingredients and measurements. And my look darker.
Help! After I made these cookies and stored them in a Tupperware for a few hours, they turned green! Any idea why?!
I made these cookies and they turned out wonderful but my husband thinks they won’t be sweet enough for the classroom party I’m trying to make them for with kids that might only ever get very sugary treats. Do you think they will bake ok if I increase the coconut sugar by another half or should I try cane sugar? I just want to sweeten a bit but need them to stay the same consistency…. Don’t want to make crumbly ones. Thoughts please?
Delicious cookies!!! Super simple and easy to make.
These look amazing – can i use monk fruit as a sweetner instead of coconut sugar?
I am also wondering if monk fruit sweetener can be used in place of coconut sugar. Did you try it?
These are excellent!!
Can I substitute a gluten free baking mix for the almond flour and baking soda? Would it be a direct conversion do you think?
Can’t wait to try!
I made these for a friend who’s gluten free for a cookie swap, easy and delicious! I didn’t have coconut sugar so I did brown sugar instead. Next time I’ll put in more chocolate chips 😉
Any recommendations on making the dough ahead of time and freezing? Maybe shaping in balls and then freezing? Please let me know your thoughts as I don’t bake much. Thank you!
The best cookie I’ve ever made. I do not say that lightly coming off of a SAD diet.
These were very bland. Pumpkin flavor was just sort of there; the only thing making them sort of worth the calories was the chocolate chips. Would not make again; disappointed I wasted so much almond flour. Your pumpkin chocolate chip bread was amazing, tons of flavor, so I had high hopes.
My husband is a chocolate chip cookie connoisseur. He absolutely loved these Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies! He requested that I keep this recipe! I like to double cookie recipes and keep the dough in my fridge to make fresh cookies as needed. I tweaked the recipe a little by adding 3 eggs and 3 T. Of coconut flour, to the doubled recipe. This recipe is 2 thumbs up! ❤
Why do these cookies need to be refrigerated after baked?
These would be a good healthy snack cookie. However, when I made them for our halloween party they were not a crowd pleaser lol… “they definitely forgot the gluten, but I think they forgot the sugar too”
That being said, 3/4 of the cookies were gone by the end of the night. I also made this batch with Nutzo, which may be slightly more savory than almond butter. All said and done, I may make them again with almond butter for myself and my family.
5 Stars. Now my go to cookie to make when having company. Ive even made and shipoed to my kids. Delicious and easy to make!!.
These were lovely, even my husband gobbled them up!
These cookies were one of the first things I baked for my husband when we got married in 2017. Still today it’s his absolute favorite baked good! I like to try new recipes, but if it was for him, we’d have the pumpkin cookies every single week no matter the season. 🙂 thanks for the wonderful recipe!
Excellent cookie!! Can you freeze these?
Hello thank you for this recipe I was wondering can I substitute oat flour for almond flour?
Question- are these sweet enough or would you recommend adding in additional sweeteners? Making these for thanksgiving and want to please all palates 🙂
Awesome! I like adding cacao nibs as well.
Love this recipe! Made a few times now. They taste even better the next day after they’ve had a chance to sit.
Can PB be substituted for Almond Butter?
Very good cookie. On the cakey side, but tasty and satisfying. I wouldn’t open a can of pumpkin to make these, but the 1/2 cup it called for was just about exactly what I had leftover from making the flourless pumpkin brownies, which are to die for!
I want to make these but I have a nut allergy in my family. Any suggestions on a swap for almond flour
I usually love you stuff but I am pretty sure the flour ratio is way of for this recipe.
These are the perfect fall treat! I took them to a cake walk and they were a big favorite.
lovee a soft cookie. i had a half can of pumpkin left over and i’m still deep in the fall dessert vibes, so i went for it. these are perfect. i will probably try to freeze some because, well, its only me.