Pumpkin Spice Chocolate Chip Cookies {recipe}

Pumpkin Spice Chocolate Chip Cookies | Lil Miss Cakes

This recipe happened by accident. I was trying to make my favorite chocolate chip cookies for my sisters birthday.  They happen to be her favorite too.  The recipe calls for a package of vanilla pudding mix.  I started putting the recipe together and went to the pantry to grab a pudding mix from my stash…my empty stash!  I was all out of vanilla-my options were lemon or pumpkin spice pudding mix.  If I were baking for my mom, I would have grabbed lemon.  My sister is not a lemon fan though, so I went for the pumpkin and hoped for the best.

Pumpkin Spice Chocolate Chip Cookies Close Up | Lil Miss Cakes

Yum!  They taste like my soft chocolate chip cookies, but with a hint of pumpkin spice.  It’s nice for once to not be overwhelmed by pumpkin especially this time of year.  Even I need a break.  And I’ve posted pumpkin a lot! See pumpkin cinnamon buns, pumpkin spice pudding cookies, pumpkin doughnuts, pumpkin doughnut holes, and pumpkin snickerdoodles (my first ever post-I’ve come a long way).  Anyway, these cookies were gone so quickly!  My sister was so happy and had a great birthday weekend, thanks to this dairy-free cookie recipe.

Pumpkin Spice Chocolate Chip Cookies {recipe}
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Serves: 3 dozen
 
Ingredients
  • 1 cup (2 sticks) margarine
  • ¾ cup brown sugar
  • ¼ cup sugar
  • 1 tsp, vanilla extract
  • 2 eggs
  • 2¼ cups flour
  • 1 package pumpkin spice pudding mix
  • 1 tsp. baking soda
  • ¾ tsp. salt
  • 12 oz. semi-sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
  2. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
  3. In the bowl on an electric stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the margarine with the sugars and vanilla extract until smooth.
  4. Add in the eggs, one at a time, and mix until combined.
  5. Mix in the flour, pudding mix, baking soda, and salt, and mix until combined.
  6. Add in the chocolate chips and mix just until combined, trying not to break up the chips.
  7. Using a 1½ Tbs. size cookie scoop or spoon, scoop cookie dough onto parchment lined cookie sheet and bake for 8-11 minutes until edges are lightly browned. Remove from oven and let cookies cool on baking sheet to firm up a bit. Enjoy!