Repeat after me: Y-U-M.
Now repeat a few more times.
Yum yum yum.
Yum yum.
Yum.
These cookies are soft, rich, chocolatey… and filled with pumpkin pie!
Oh my.
If you own the cookbook, Vegan Cookies take over your Cookie Jar, you’ll probably remember one of the yummiest-looking cookies in the book: their peanut butter chocolate pillows. When I saw that particular recipe, I fell in love with the concept of a “stuffed” cookie. The possibilities swirled through my head like a soft-serve frozen yogurt machine.
Why stop at peanut butter?
I could stuff cookies with raspberry jam, with chocolate fudge, with pumpkin…
Today, we’re going with pumpkin.
“Inside-Out” Chocolate Pumpkin Cookies
Filling inspired by Pumpkin Peanut Butter.
- 3/4 cup white-ww flour (or white or spelt)
- 6 tbsp plus 1 tsp cocoa powder
- scant 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 cup plus 2 tbsp sugar (xylitol might work, but I haven’t tried it)
- 2 tbsp maple syrup or agave
- 3 tbsp milk of choice
- 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 3 tbsp plus 2 tsp vegetable oil
- 3 tbsp pureed pumpkin
- 3 tbsp nut butter of choice (I used pb. For a fat-free option, a few readers have subbed more pumpkin. I can’t personally vouch for it, though.)
- 1/4 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 packet stevia (or 1/2 tablespoon sugar)
- 1/8 tsp pure vanilla extract
Combine first 5 ingredients, and mix very well. Add ingredients 6-9 and mix again to form dough. In a separate bowl, combine all other ingredients to make the filling. Using about a heaping tablespoon of dough, roll into a ball and then flatten. Place a little scoop of the filling in the center and fold up the sides of the dough. Form into a ball. (The sides might crack a little, but that’s ok. They don’t need to be perfect.) Bake at 330 F (preheated) for around 10 minutes. They should be a little undercooked when you take them out. Let stand 10 minutes… if you can wait that long!
Fill in the blank:
What would be a dream cookie filling?
Mine would be filled with this recipe: Healthy Nutella.
I’m also dreaming up ways to do a mint filling.
I love this, so hard! I’ve been dreaming of pumpkin pie…
the only thing slightly better would be a mint filling. chocolate mint is amazing beyond reason!
Oh I love this idea ! I already make a similar recipe without any oven : you just have to mix almond powder and date paste (or any marmelade) for the cookie dough… hey, this sounds like your babies… you could make stuffed babies !!
Thanks for this awesome combination, pumpkin and chocolate, I would never have thought of it ! (in France we are not used to pumpkin into desserts).
This is such a great idea!!! Thanks for the recipe!
My dream cookie would be filled with some sort of almond or praline filling. Oh yea …. dreaming!!! Haha.
These look so good!! I love stuffed things too. You nailed it when you said yum yum yum yum X10 🙂
Umm, a chocolate chip cookie dough stuffed brownie cookie??????? Holy @*&!!
Great idea – they look delicious!
Does the nut butter alter the taste of the pumpkin at all?
Sorry, I’m not really sure what you mean 😕
I know what you meant, and I had the same fear. I made mine with peanut butter since that’s what CCK did, but I wish I used cashew, as that would have a more mild taste (and I’ve had success using cashews in vegan pumpkin pie). They are slightly peanut-y tasting with the peanut butter!
Katie, these look amazing, I am certainly going to make them!
What kind of oil did you use? Do you think coconut oil would be good in these?
Thanks!
Ana
I used canola oil this time, but I really don’t see why coconut oil wouldn’t be awesome in these. I only tested it out with the canola because I know a lot of people don’t have coconut oil and I wanted to make the recipe more generic… but I really love coconut oil for baking!
If you make them, I’d love to know how they taste with the coconut :).
Good work Katie! These look awesome. I love this spin on a pumpkin flavor, so creative!
I agree, both peanut butter and cookie dough would be good!
Those look so good. I’m loving all the pumpkin recipes I’m seeing so far this season. I just gotta get out to the store and buy some pumpkin.
I am so making these tonight!
Dream cookie = Chocolate filled with coconut + peanut butter + banana and maybe more chocolate 😀
Dream cookie filling: Peanut Butter. Mint. Chocolate Ganache. Almond Butter. Chocolate. Brownies. A Cookie. Peanut Butter. And a Cookie 🙂
I don’t know if this would be vegan, but could you do a mint filling with some kind of olive oil based spread mixed with powdered sugar and mint extract? I’d add green food coloring because I think green things taste extra minty, even if it’s just in my head! 😉
Oh yum! I’ve read the “vegan cookies take over your cookie jar” from the library. Awesome recipes!
I would fill my cookies with anything like mousse or custard or PB…..as long as it’s vegan, healthy, or low-cal, of course!
mapel syrup and almond butter YUM 🙂