Healthy Halloween Cookies: Flourless Pumpkin Chocolate-Chip Cookies for a Festive Treat!
Stay healthy this Halloween with our favorite healthy Halloween cookies – flourless pumpkin chocolate-chip delights! These halloween cookies are packed with nutritious ingredients like oat flour and canned pumpkin, making them a perfect seasonal treat for both kids and adults. Try them out for guilt-free nibbles or hand them out to trick-or-treaters for a tasty, wholesome option.
Flourless and Healthy Pumpkin Chocolate-Chip Cookies
Serves: 12
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup canned pumpkin (not pumpkin pie filling)
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- Pinch of salt
- 1 cup oat flour (oats that have been blended)
- 1/2 cup dark chocolate chips (or milk, semi-sweet, or nuts)
- 1/4 cup chocolate chunks, optional
Instructions
- In a bowl, beat together the pumpkin, honey, egg, and vanilla extract. Beat in the brown sugar.
- In another bowl, stir together the cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice, baking soda, salt, and oat flour. (Oat flour is just old-fashioned or quick oats that have been blended in a blender or food processor until they are at a flour consistency). **Make sure to measure the oat flour AFTER blending the oats and not before **
- Combine the wet and dry and mix until just combined. Do not overstir.
- Stir in the chocolate chips.
- Chill the dough for 30 minutes and then preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Using a cookie scoop, scoop out the dough onto a cookie sheet.
- Press the chocolate chunks (and extra chocolate chips if desired) into the tops of these cookies and bake for 6-8 minutes.
- These cookies taste best (in my opinion) a little under-baked – they are soft, chewy, and chocolatey!
Notes: If gluten-intolerant, make sure to use certified gluten-free oats.