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.
Oh Yumm! I need to get around to making these.
my ideal cookie would be filled with….Mint ice cream…but dang girl!! These look and sound fantastic 🙂
Wow! These look awesome! I’ve seen so many delicious baking recipes this week, I don’t know which to try first, but these are definitely a contender! My dream cookie would be filled with… Nutella!
EEEEK! These look amazing. Pumpkin pumpkin and more pumpkin please! Oh and chocolate too 🙂
The creative genius elves are fast at work in Katie’s head!!!! I simply adore this recipe!!! You go girl!!!!
Oh P.S: I want to let you know I will be making this recipe for Thanksgiving!!! 🙂 I always comment on your posts but I’m sure it’s even more fun to know if people are actually making the recipes. I am so excited!!! 🙂
Ooh I hope you like it!!
If I don’t like it I know it’s my fault because your recipes are always amazing and whenever I deviate from them, I usually end up adding way too much _insert ingredient here_ and they end up not being nearly as good. HAHAHA oh boy today I invented something with mayo, pineapple, bbq sauce, squash, hot sauce, chlorella….lets just say my body was like “Yeah uh huh mmHMM girlfrannn!!!! I am PUTTING UP WITH THIS NO LONGA” and I got sick and then crashed severely for hours. Hahahaha. Never again. Hot sauce and chlorella Lyza??? Dear god I was not thinking! 🙂 I’ll just leave the recipes to you dear. 🙂
LOL! Oh do not worry… I do really weird experiments too. Sometimes they work out, like when I threw a bunch of stuff in the blender and got Pumpkin Bread in a Bowl. But other times… 😕 😕 😕
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Lol!! Yes – :-S – that face exactly. Creativity can be such a fun and beautiful thing with such wonderful outcomes, but today I learned it can also make quite a mess. 🙂 All a great learning experience though!
Delish! My dream cookie would be filled with some sort of nutty caramel goo 🙂
I don’t think anything is better than peanut butter stuffed cookies, but here are a few filling ideas:
coconut-cream, banana bread filling, strawberries, mint filling, vanilla bean filling, chocolate filled with….chocolate!
these cookies look amazing. If I could stuff my cookie it would be a sugar cookie filled with pistachio pudding. I love pistachios and green is a pretty color to frost/stuff cookies with
Caramel. Oozing, gooey caramel…
wow! yes please now and repeat…yum is right!
Dream filling…gosh that is hard…chocolate lava 🙂
def cookie dough. with peanut butter & jelly as a close second 😉
my dream cookie would be filled with a soft, chocolatey, praline centre 🙂 mmmmmm!
Pumpkin cookie dough!
Look great! Any idea if these might work using an extra 3T pumpkin instead of nut butter? Not sure if that would change the filling consistency too much…
If you try it, I’d love to hear how it goes/ if it tastes good!
I made these yesterday with an extra 3T of pumpkin instead of nut butter and it turned out pretty delicious! The cookies just shouldn’t sit around too long after baking because then the bottom will get somewhat “soaked” by the puree, but I guess that would happen with the normal filling too? These cookies are too good to not eat them immediately anyway, so this shouldn’t really be a problem 😉 Thanks so much for the recipe!
The bottom won’t actually get soaked with the pb version. It’s probably because pb is drier than pumpkin. (Or maybe the fat soaks up the pumpkin’s moisture.) In any case, I’m really glad you reported back and that the extra-pumpkin version works :).
Hmm, my dream cookie would be filled with…with…I don’t know. These look pretty good though!
These are beautiful! I love the cocoa brown/pumpkin orange contrast! And I love chocolate & pumpkin AND vegan treats, so I will try these out when I have some time 🙂 I really appreciate that you publish the nutritional info too. Thanks!