Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

🧂 Ingredients

• 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour

  (spoon and leveled)
• 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice

  (see recipe [https://bakeitwithlove.com/pumpkin-pie-spice/])
• 1 teaspoon orange peel
• ½ teaspoon baking powder
• ¼ teaspoon baking soda
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• ½ cup butter

  (unsalted - melted and cooled)
• ½ cup dark brown sugar

  (or light brown sugar - packed)
• ¼ cup sugar
• ½ cup pumpkin puree
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• ¾ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

  (or milk chocolate, or dark chocolate chips)

Instructions

• 1 In a large mixing bowl, add the dry ingredients (all-purpose flour, baking
  powder, baking soda, salt, pumpkin pie spice, and orange peel).
• 2 Whisk the dry ingredients together until thoroughly combined, then make a well
  in the center for the wet ingredients. Set aside.
• 3 In a medium mixing bowl, add the wet ingredients (melted and cooled butter,
  pumpkin puree, and vanilla extract with the dark brown or light brown sugar and
  granulated sugar).
• 4 Mix the wet ingredients together until thoroughly combined and all of the lumps
  of brown sugar are dissolved.
• 5 Add the wet ingredients into the well in the center of the dry ingredients.
• 6 Mix the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients using a spatula or spoon, just
  enough so that the flour is absorbed and you have a cookie dough that feels a
  little wet.
• 7 Add the chocolate chips (milk chocolate, semi-sweet, or dark chocolate chips).
• 8 Fold the chocolate chips into the pumpkin cookie dough. Cover and chill in the
  refrigerator for 30 minutes.
• 9 Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) and line a baking sheet with
  parchment paper or silpat baking mat.
• 10 Portion out the dough in heaping tablespoon amounts and roll into balls that are
  roughly 1 ¼ inch in size.
• 11 Flatten the dough balls using the back of your spoon, a flat measuring cup, or
  your fingers. Flatten to about cookie thickness, as the dough will not spread
  without some help.
• 12 Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 8-10 minutes, or until the cookies
  don't look doughy anymore. I removed mine at 8 minutes, after finding the longer
  cook time makes the cookies rise more. They ended up being a bit more cakey than
  chewy with the longer bake time.
• 13 Top your baked cookies with more chocolate chips if desired. Allow them to cool
  on the baking sheet for about 10 minutes before removing the cookies to a wire
  cooling rack to cool completely.

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