The Best Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Cookie Recipe

Why use the same old traditional pumpkin cookie recipe this fall? This chocolate chip pumpkin cookie is moist and delicious and stands out from the traditional cookies with a hint of spices and the delicious chocolate chips. This chocolate chip pumpkin cookie recipe is a treat for everyone out there that loves pumpkin and has a sweet tooth.

Ingredients for Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Cookie Recipe
1 cup canned pumpkin
1 cup white sugar
¼ cup vegetable oil
¼ cup apple sauce
1Egg
1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
½ cup whole wheat flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 ¼ tsp cinnamon
¼ tsp ground cloves
½ tsp nutmeg
¼ tsp ginger
½ tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp milk
1 tbsp vanilla extract
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
½ cup walnut crumbs
3 drops red food coloring (optional)

Directions for Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Cookie Recipe
Heat oven to 365
Mix pumpkin, sugar, apple sauce, oil and egg in a large bowl until well blended
In another bowl, mix the all-purpose flour and whole wheat flour, baking powder, ground cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cloves and salt
In a small dish mix together the baking soda, and milk and stir till dissolved. Mix into flour mixture.
Mix the flour mixture to the pumpkin bowl, and blend well.
Add vanilla, chocolate chips, food coloring (for making pumpkin cookies an orange color) and walnut crumbs.
Drop a tablespoon of the pumpkin chocolate chip cookie dough on to a greased cookie sheet and tap the cookie sheet on the counter to make the dough settle or flatten a little.
Bake the chocolate chip pumpkin cookies in the preheated oven for 12 minutes.

This recipe yields a dozen Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Cookies

*Refrigerate any leftover cookies