The Fall Favorite Cookie goes for the full fall flavor, to easily becoming your new favorite cookie! The sunset-orange, pumpkin-spice-infused cookie base is warm and ready to bring all the autumnal joy you can handle. And then it turns out that Fall Favorite Cookie is also a chocolate chip cookie! No wonder it is so many people’s favorite! Thank goodness it makes enough cookies to go around!
Ingredients
- 1 cup canned pumpkin purée
- 1/2 cup vegetable or canola oil
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 1/2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 cups semisweet chocolate chips, plus more, to taste
Directions
Step 1 –In a large bowl, add the pumpkin purée, the oil, the sugar, the egg, and the vanilla extract and mix until well-combined.
Step 2 –Add the baking soda, the pumpkin pie spice, the baking powder, the salt, and the flour to the pumpkin mixture and stir until just combined.
Step 3 –Fold in 1 1/2 cups of the chocolate chips.
Step 4 –Cover the bowl and the chill the dough for at least 1 hour and up to 8 hours.
Step 5 –Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Step 6 –Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a nonstick baking mat.
Step 7 –Drop the cookie dough onto the baking sheet, using about 2 tablespoons of dough for each cookie. Keep the cookies about 2 inches apart from each other.
Step 8 –Sprinkle the extra chocolate chips over the cookies and press them into the tops of each of the cookies.
Step 9 –Bake until the tops are set and the edges are light golden-brown, about 8-12 minutes.
Step 10 –Let the cookies rest on the baking sheet for 5 minutes.
Step 11 –Transfer the cookies to a cooling rack.
Step 12 –Serve.
