HAPPY FRIDAY!!
another week down and excited for the weekend. we are expecting a cold weekend here. what about you?
we have been working hard over here with the bakery and getting some recipes made for the blog. yesterday we had so much fun in the kitchen. listening to Christmas carols listening to no music as we baked and ‘unbaked’ away. we are excited to share more holiday inspired recipes with you all. (we forgot to put our music on while baking)
today’s recipe is a gluten-free vegan pumpkin flavored chocolate chip cookie recipe
it is actually a re-make of our first time making these pumpkin chip cookies last October. we realized when baking these cookies how much we love pumpkin and chocolate together! the love started with this original recipe then our pumpkin brownie cupcakes re-confirmed our love and then remaking these cookies again only heighten our love.
this time when we made our pumpkin chocolate chip cookies we wanted to use chia seeds in them for more texture. and we did not have our sprouted flours on hand like we did the first time. but with those few changes the cookies still came out great. these gluten-free cookies are more of a soft cookie then a hard crispy one. we prefer soft cookies over hard ones anyways so it worked out nicely.
cookies can be pressed down for more of a flat cookie
or you can leave it in the round shape from scooping them.
both ways are delicious. or you can even do a mix matched batch of cookies like we did.
soft, moist, a little delicate, and flavorful cookies. that you will keep going back for more!
pure2raw recipe: gluten-free vegan soft pumpkin chia seed chocolate chip cookies
prep-time: 5 minutes
bake-time: 18- 20 minutes
makes: about 16-18 cookies depending on size of scoop
Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup amaranth flour
- 1/4 cup arrowroot starch
- 1/4 cup whole chia seeds
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
- 1/2 cup coconut sugar (or any sugar of choice)
- 1o drops of stevia (or could do 2 more tablespoons sugar)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup coconut oil
- 1/4 cup chocolate chips (we use Enjoy Life brand)
- 1/2 cup + 3 tablespoons pumpkin puree (we used canned pumpkin)
Directions:
Place all dry ingredients into a large bowl and shift together.
Next grab your sugar, coconut oil, stevia, chocolate chips and pumpkin puree and place them into another bowl. Stir till combined.
Grab your bowl of dry ingredients and pour into your wet ingredients, and stir.
Batter will be thick and a little sticky. Scoop cookies with ice cream scooper or a spoon onto a parchment lined cookie sheet. You can leave the cookies as rounds or pressed down to your desired thickness of cookie.
Place in a pre-heated oven of 350 degrees and bake for 18-20 minutes.
*Substitution ideas:
- to replace the amaranth and arrowroot flours you can just use 3/4 cup of any gf flour blend/flour of your choice.
- to replace chia seeds can use flax seeds though will change the flavor of cookie. or you could just use more flour instead of chia seeds.
- to replace coconut oil you can use any oil or fat of choice
- to replace the stevia we suggest adding in 2 more tablespoons of sugar
a super delicious vitamin and fiber packed cookie!
now who else loves soft cookies?
what about chocolate and pumpkin together?
till next time,
xoxo
L&M
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Pumpkin and chocolate DO go great together! These cookies look so soft and chewy! Love it. And don’t you just adore Enjoy Life products??
I love your photograph. Every time I see your amazing food!
thanks Lori
and yes enjoy life makes great products!
Oh these look so good!
Happy Friday loves! <3
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These look so good! Simple and delicious – chocolate & pumpkin is always a good combo.
Rachel @ Eat, Learn, Discover! recently posted..WIAW – Catching Up
Yes Rachel they are
They look so adorable! And I love fluffy cookies. One of my favorite “fluffy” cookies are banana chocolate chunk.
Alex@Spoonful of Sugar Free recently posted..Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bites
oh Alex that sounds delicious!
Wow, these look amazing girls! I want to try making them for sure, will get the ingredients for it!!
Ana
Girls these cookies look amazing! I can’t wait to make them next week
Soft cookies all the way!
thanks Maddie
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Anne, we are having major issues with our RSS feed not showing up in google reader. we are not sure why it stopped. we have tried everything to get it back, we are still working on it. and once we figured it out we will let everyone know! sorry for the confusion.
so glad i remembered to check in, it’s hard for me since i transitioned myself to do everything via google reader. but these look amazing!
Thanks Bitt!
mmmm these look so good! you should sell them in the bakery because I would order a whole case!
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Totally love a good soft cookie – and pumpkin and chocolate is one of my favourite combinations…. was first introduced to the idea through a local cafe which had the most amazing whole wheat spiced pumpkin and dark chocolate chunk muffins (and we are talking some mega chunk action in these bad boys!)
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Did you guys ever figure out what was up with the Google Reader issue? I miss seeing you guys pop up on there
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These cookies look amazing! I can ONLY eat soft cookies and don’t care for hard or crunchy ones very much at all. In fact, I think I’d rather eat cookie dough than a hard cookie
Brittany @ Itty Bits of Balance recently posted..Lightened Up Lemon Garlic Chickpea Pasta
I have some amaranth flour that I haven’t used…great recipe…pumpkin & chocolate..YUM! Happy Weekend!
LizAshlee recently posted..Quinoa Split Pea Wrap + Review
I have pumpkin and chia in my oatmeal everyday! Maybe I’ll switch it up and make these!
Rebecca @ Naturally Healthy and Gorgeous recently posted..Toxic Thursdays-Shampoo
Pumpkin and Chocolate are my all time favorite combo!! I make chocolate chip pumpkin bread all of the time! I pinned these cookies so I can make them this weekend! Can’t wait!!!
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These look incredible!
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just pulled these out of the oven. YUM!! thanks again! I’m on #3. Is that bad? I subbed sorghum for the amaranth flour. Amaranth is just too strong for my palate–even if it’s only a small amount in other recipes…I’ve tried several times to like it, I promise!
I also did about 1/4 cup and change of coconut sugar and no stevia and it was plenty sweet for my palate. Actually, I ate too many chocolate chips while I was putting it together so maybe I satiated my craving that way! As I type, I’m drinking a giant bottle of homemade coconut water kefir to help to offset my naughty behavior! Merry Christmas, ladies!
These are SO good. my 2 year old and I whipped up a batch of these yummy morsels this morning. I best pop them in the freezer to avoid eating the whole batch this afternoon.
I didn’t have any amaranth flour so I subbed with quinoa, millet and sorghum flours. I had little bits of each left so this was the perfect way to make us of it.
Thanks for such a delicious recipe! Happy New Year!
These look great. I have bought my first package of chia seeds but haven’t used them yet– these look like a good way to get started. Pinning….
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I made a small batch of these today. I am just learning how to bake and they are delicious. They are so soft and easy to make. I am wondering, what would be a good substitute for amaranth flour? I have teff, brown rice, millet, and chickpeas flour. Also, can I omit baking powder or substitute with something else? I am just not sure how my son will react to baking powder.
Thanks
Donna
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