Oh hi, pumpkin!
Nice to see you again… it has been entirely too long!
Are you happy to see the return of pumpkin season?
There are about a million and three new pumpkin recipes I’ve been holding onto since June that I’ve wanted so badly to share with you all, and finally I can post them! Starting with these gooey pumpkin chocolate chip cookie bars.
Whole-grain, and loaded with pumpkin and chocolate chips, they are perfect for a lunch box or to consume as an afternoon snack with a tall glass of ice cold almond milk.
Above, I’ve included some unedited iphone photos… Sometimes I think it’s fun to show what the recipes look like in a non-photoshoot setting!
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
- 1 1/2 cups spelt or white flour (180g) (Oat flour works; the texture is just a bit denser.)
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp pumpkin pie spice (or cinnamon)
- 1/4 cup rolled oats (20g)
- 1/2 cup brown sugar or date sugar (90g)
- 1/2 cup to 1 cup chocolate chips, depending on how chocolatey you want the bars
- 1/2 cup vegetable or melted coconut oil (80g)
- 1/2 cup canned or pureed pumpkin or sweet potato (120g)
- 2 1/4 tsp pure vanilla extract (10g)
- pinch uncut stevia, or 1 tbsp sugar of choice
- 3 tbsp pure maple syrup or honey (If strict vegan, don’t use honey.) (45g)
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Line the bottom of an 8-inch square pan with parchment paper. Set aside. In a large mixing bowl, stir together the first 7 ingredients. In a separate bowl, whisk all remaining ingredients. Pour wet over dry, and stir to form a batter. Spoon batter into the prepared pan. Bake 25 minutes. They will still look undercooked when you take them out, but this is okay. They continue to cook as they cool. Let cool for 20 minutes, and if they’re not firm enough yet, refrigerate overnight. They will firm up nicely! Makes 15-24 squares, depending on how large you cut them.
—> View Pumpkin Cookie Bars Nutrition Facts <—
Link of the Day: Healthy Pumpkin Spice Latte – with REAL pumpkin in the ingredients
Questions of the Day:
Are you excited for pumpkin season? Have you started eating pumpkin yet?
These pumpkin chocolate cookies bars look amazing! I can’t wait to try them this Fall! And I love the unedited pictures – they look equally as delicious (I want to reach into the pan and cut myself a piece!). I am so ready for pumpkin season! They do not sell canned pumpkin here (Things I’ve learned since moving to Europe!) but they do sell mini pumpkins in the grocery store (which I make into homemade pumpkin puree – yum!). Pinned!
Hi Katie,
These were so good! I am packing the leftovers in my kids lunchboxes tomorrow if there are any left! It is a big if!
Sorry, that was supposed to be a response to Katie.
Yum!!! I absolutely love pumpkin season! I have been eating pumpkin since June or July, with no regrets. These bars look fantastic!
Love love love pumpkin, and the kids love bars.
Winning!
Question (and I feel like you’ve answered this somewhere else and I’ve forgotten): is the nutritional info for the smaller amount of chocolate chips or the larger? When a recipe has a range of an ingredient listed, how does that relate to the nutritional info?
Thanks.
Your answers! https://lett-trim.today/faq-page/recipe-questions-and-troubleshooting/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
Thanks for the link to the awesome FAQs 🙂 There are answers to almost every question I’ve ever thought of when reading your recipes- except the one I asked here.
I am so sorry if I missed what I am looking for, I read the FAQs twice and if it’s there I am totally not recognizing it.
Is the nutritional info given for the recipe based on making the recipe with the smaller amount of chocolate chips listed in the recipe?
Thanks!
PS Already shared this recipe with two others 🙂 There’s gonna be an outbreak of pumpkin cookie bars!
I’m not Katie, but I did want to let you know it is there under the link I provided. It is under this section: “Help! My online calculator gave me different numbers than those on your nutrition label. Why?”
Oh pumpkin I am so glad your back in season. I will need to try these, I have been looking for some pumpkin bars and this recipe sounds perfect!
AHHHHH these look SO GOOD!!! Making them TODAY!!!
I ADORE your blog Katie!!! So exited for the book!
**Excited!
Thank you, Katie! These look delicious, and my pumpkin craving is in full effect. I made your no bake pumpkin oatmeal cookies yesterday, and the family devoured them! I love the fall, but hate that it means winter is coming. I wish it was fall year round.
Thank you so much for making them!
Oh, these bars look delicious, what is better than pumpkin and chocolate? I love it how you added some unedited photos, its a lovely touch! Pinned 😀
yummy! I miss when you post an individual or dual serving of things like this, though! but I love all the changes and thank you so much for sharing your story with us. You are such a generous soul.
I was just telling someone that I can finally accept that it’s fall and pumpkin season because of the recent cool down in weather. I feel like it was so hot last week, I just couldn’t get on board.
I’m so excited to try your pumpkin chocolate cookie bar recipe. Pumpkin season is the absolute best, and those bars look SO tasty!
Thanks for posting this recipe, I can’t wait to make these for my friends.