EASY to make 5 Ingredient Healthy Pumpkin Cookies recipe! These soft Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies are sugar free, instead using maple syrup! Make sure to add chocolate chips on top to make them extra delicious!
Fall is the best time of the year! The chilly weather is coming in. Apple picking is thought of as a weekend exercise (hello apple waffles!). Apple Juice is a appropriate drink any time of the day.
You can put skeletons in your front yard. You can have as many pumpkins in your house as you want. Fall is all about the best recipes too, that’s why I love these 5 Ingredient Sugar Free Pumpkin Cookies!
With pumpkins ranging from munchkins to pie to giants in our house right now (all from the garden!) I have been baking a few at a time to preserve and enjoy the pumpkin inside of each. As we’re nearing the end of September I think it’s time we dive right into pumpkin season with a pumpkin cookie that is delicious and light on the calories.
How to Make Healthy Pumpkin Cookies Video
How to Make Easy Pumpkin Cookies
These cookies are so easy to make and only require 5 ingredients: pumpkin, quiak oats, maple syrup, peanut butter and pumpkin pie spice. They’re all healthy, simple ingredients.
You’ll add your 5 ingredients to a large bowl and use a hand mixer to blend for about 30 seconds. Then you’ll form the dough into tablespoon sized balls, that you will press down to form a cookie. Bake at 350 degrees for about 15 minutes.
That’s it! This simple cookie recipe makes 18 cookies!
Healthy Pumpkin Cookies
This recipe calls for 1 cup pumpkin. If you have pumpkins making homemade pumpkin puree is really easy to do (here’s a DIY). If you don’t want to make homemade puree, you can use canned pumpkin instead.
Using maple syrup instead of brown sugar really adds a dark, rich taste to the cookies.
And in just 15 minutes out of the oven comes a bunch of Fall flavored Pumpkin cookies for you to enjoy!
I added chocolate chips on top of mine to take them to that next level of yum.
Hope you enjoy! Why not trying baking these over the weekend? Looking for more healthy cookies? Try my Vegan Peanut Butter Cookies!
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5 Ingredient Healthy Pumpkin Cookies
PrintIngredients
- 1 cup pumpkin puree
- 2 cups quick oats
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 1/2 cup peanut butter
- 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
- chocolate chips or sugar free chocolate chips - OPTIONAL
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Prepare 2 baking sheets with nonstick spray.
- Add pumpkin, oats, syrup, peanut butter and pumpkin pie spice in a large bowl and with hand mixer mix for about 30 seconds.
- Form the dough into tablespoon sized balls. The dough should be sticky. To make balls easier to roll with sticky dough, lightly wetten your fingers. Place on cookie sheets.
- Gently press down each cookie with your fingers or spoon. You don't want to squash them you just want to flatten them into a cookie shape.
- Add chocolate chips (about 5-8) on top of each cookie. (OPTIONAL)
- Bake for 15-17 minutes.
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Notes
Store in airtight container in the refrigerator.
Monica says
These cookies turned out really good, I’m going to make them for Thanksgiving dessert again! This time I’m going to use peanut butter chips instead of chocolate chips. Thank you!
Pamela says
I love the idea of using peanut butter chips! Enjoy Monica, thanks for commenting!
Elizabeth says
Could you use honey instead of the maple syrup?
Pamela says
Hey Elizabeth, I haven’t used honey but but I definitely think it’s worth it shot! I’d love to hear how the cookies turn out for you!
Danielle says
I used honey and they turned out just fine. Thanks for the recipe!
Jessica says
Can I substitute flour for oats? I’m out of oats!
Pamela says
Hey Jessica, I’ve never baked these with flour so I can’t help you there. Baking with flour will change the texture though, so I hope you can pick up some oats!
Carly White says
I just put these in the oven and just realized I put in the entire can of pumpkin puree instead of 1 cup! I knew they were kind of wet and not really that sticky as the recipe said, oops!
So they are out and they are really good, I had to add a few extra minutes of cooking time!
YUMMY
Pamela says
Hey Carly, thanks for commenting! I’m so glad you enjoyed these cookies, even with the additional pumpkin!
Judy says
I made these for a workshop this weekend and everyone LOVED them! THANK YOU!
Lisa says
I think the title of the recipe should be changed to “no sugar added” as maple sugar has a lot of sugar in it.
Amanda says
Has anyone calculated the macros for this? I want to be able to enter them into mfp
Michelle says
Have you tried old fashioned oats in this recipe, or just quick oats?
Pamela says
Hey Michelle, I prefer using quick oats for this recipe. Enjoy the cookies!
Ioanna says
Great recipe!could we substitute the peanut butter for something lower in fat?
Pamela says
You could alternatively use almond or cashew butter if you’d like. Enjoy!
Crystal@WhatTreasuresAwait says
I love that these are so easy and I have most of the ingredients already. Thanks so much for sharing at Welcome Home Wednesdays!
Kim @ The Baking ChocolaTess says
Pinned a couple times because they look so good ! Visiting from What’s Cooking Wednesdays! 🙂
Victoria Pease says
Sounds delicious, love how these cookies are a bit healthier that the usual autumnal bakes 🙂
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Joe @ Joe's Healthy Meals says
These cookies look fabulous Pamela. There are definitely a must try!
Monica says
I made these cookies this weekend and I paired them with a pumpkin spice latte which I enjoyed sitting in my backyard in the sun watching the chickadees eat out of my bird feeder. What a perfect day all which started with these awesome cookies!!
Emma @ Bake Then Eat says
I’ll take mine with chocolate chips please 😀
Angie@Angie's Recipes says
Definitely my kind of cookies! Chocolate chips are a must here :-))