Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

I'm not really sure if I should call these cookies or not. The consistency makes them more like cake or muffins. When my family tried them we were brainstorming some new names: cakelets, muffies, and cakies were all tossed around. Whatever you call them, they are delicious! I know what treat I'll be making over and over again this fall.

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
makes 2 dozen cookies, adapted from carla's confections


1.5 C all purpose flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 C packed brown sugar
1/2 C vegetable oil
1.5 C pumpkin puree
1/4 C applesauce
1/2 tsp vanilla
1/2 C vegan chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350.

Whisk together the oil and the brown sugar. Add in the pumpkin, applesauce, and vanilla and combine. In another bowl mix together the flour, salt, baking soda, and baking powder.
Add the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients and mix well. Stir in your chocolate chips.

Using a spoon or cookie scoop, drop the cookie batter onto a greased baking sheet and bake for 15 minutes.

Yum! I used the "mega chucks" instead of regular chocolate chips so that is why the chocolate pieces look so huge. I would also imagine you could make this with coconut oil instead of vegetable oil, but I ran out. These cookies barely lasted a day in our house.

There is a blog relay making the rounds that asks the receiver to write about hope. Heather from Sunday Morning Banana Pancakes passed the baton to me. (By the way, she will be here tomorrow with a AMAZING guest post - so be sure to come back to check it out!)

I've been thinking on this for a few days now, and to me having hope is hard to attain without another thing - optimism. To be optimistic about the events in your life, the things the future may bring, and to know that whatever life throws your way you can get through it and gain something from it. Sometimes in the middle of a difficult or stressful time it can be hard to think this way, but if you can look to the future with optimism it will make the hard times easier.

Now it's my turn to pass the hope relay on to some inspiring bloggers if they feel like participating. (No pressure!)

Cooking with Lysa
Fragrant Vanilla Cake
The Fig Tree Blog
The Bear and the Blackberry
The Only Vegan I Know




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