Soft Batch Pumpkin Gingersnap Chocolate Chip Cookies with a a side of sweet potato chips counts as a well balanced lunch, right? Two kinds of vegetables and all that? Asking for a friend.
We’ve found ourselves in a decent afternoon routine around here! The little kids and I pick Lincoln up from school (he’s in 1/2 day Kindergarten) then we have lunch, watch Curious George, and everyone goes to their room for 1-4 hours. YES! I usually get 1-1/2 hours of quiet time from Lincoln if he’s well stocked with paper, markers, and his Lego Encyclopedia. Since Cam doesn’t sleep, like, at all (up between 4-5 every morning – seeeriously Cameron, you’re lucky you’re the funniest person alive and I am obsessed with you,) he takes at least a 2 hour nap – sometimes 3. And because little sis dozes in her carseat in the mornings between school drop off and pick up, she crashes hard in the afternoons. I had to wake her up from a 4-1/2 hour nap yesterday!
(I’m giving myself permission to brag about this because Lincoln napped in 42 minute intervals until he was like, two, and Cameron only took 31 minute naps for a solid six months once – woof.)
Anyway, when all the children are nestled in their beds, visions of gingersnaps swirl in MY head. That is to say, I’ve been baking a ton lately, as evidenced by the current IGE homepage: Cinnamon Rolls, Apple Crisp, and Oatmeal Bars, oh my! My latest creation, gluten-free Soft Batch Pumpkin Gingersnap Chocolate Chip Cookies, are not to be missed. Think gingery, chocolate-studded cookies made extra soft and doughy thanks to the addition of pumpkin in the batter. These 2-bite, dough balls are perfect for fall and so irresistible that you might end up eating them for lunch like me!
I mean my friend…
Before we go on, I need to mention that this recipe is sponsored by Enjoy Life Foods. These cookies are the second of four recipes we’re partnering together on for the holidays that feature their delicious baking chocolates (check out the Brown Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies I shared last month.)
I always tell people that Enjoy Life Semi-Sweet Mini Chips and Dark Chocolate Morsels are not only free from gluten and 14 other common allergens, but they’re also just REALLY GOOD. The ingredient list for the Dark Chocolate Morsels, which I used in this recipe, is simply: unsweetened chocolate and cane sugar. This is the type of chocolate you should be baking with!
Back to these cookies though.
These babies are a mash up of three of my favorite cookies – gingersnaps, pumpkin cookies, and chocolate chip cookies – and they’re just as tasty as they sound. Each 2-biter is soft and doughy on the inside, sweet and spicy on the outside thanks to a roll in ginger-sugar (sugar mixed with ground ginger, y’all) before baking, and contain all the flavors I crave in the fall. I also love that since the cookies are small, they’re a nice-sized treat for little kids. Lincoln says, “mmm, I like the chocolate flavor in here. Let’s have them every time after my rest!” ;)
Couple of notes – this recipe makes a ton of cookies. Five dozen to be exact! That said, each cookie is just 2″ and you can fit 20 of them on a half sheet pan as they don’t spread very much. They also only bake for 7-8 minutes so you can churn and burn through the dough in a short amount of time. These cookies are divine warm, but I might like them even more the next day. Finally, feel free to freeze these cookies to pull out any time a craving hits!
Start by mixing up the wet ingredients. Add 1 cup sugar and 1/2 cup softened butter (or vegan butter like Earth Balance) to the bowl of an electric mixer, or glass bowl if using a hand held mixer, then beat until light and creamy. Add 1/2 cup pure pumpkin puree, 1/4 cup molasses, 1 teaspoon vanilla, and 1 egg then mix until smooth.
Next mix up the dry ingredients – that’s 2-1/3 cup gluten-free flour blend WITH binder (I used Bob’s Red Mill 1:1 Gluten-Free Flour Blend), 2 teaspoons baking soda, 1/2 teaspoon salt, plus warming spices including cinnamon, ginger, and cloves. Add to the wet ingredients in two batches, mixing until just combined before adding the second batch.
Chocolate time!
Add 1 cup Enjoy Life Dark Chocolate Morsels to the party then mix until just combined.
Last step is to stir together 3/4 cup sugar and 3 teaspoons ground ginger in a small bowl. Scoop the dough by the Tablespoon into the sugar/ginger mixture then roll to coat and place on a silpat or parchment paper-lined baking sheet. Bake for 7-8 minutes then, when you take the baking sheet out of the oven, rap it on the countertop. That just means, hold the baking sheet a couple inches above the countertop – then drop it on the countertop! Pumpkin makes cookies soft and fluffy so to get a more gingersnap appearance I like to flatten them out just a touch using this method.
Note: since these cookies bake in such a short amount of time, it’s important that your butter is very, very soft. If the butter is too cold there won’t be enough time for the cookies to spread.
Finally, devour! I must warn you, the saying for potato chips also applies to these cookies – dare you to eat just one! Enjoy!
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Soft Batch Pumpkin Gingersnap Chocolate Chip Cookies
Description
Soft Batch Pumpkin Gingersnap Chocolate Chip Cookies are soft, chewy, and packed with ginger, chocolate, and pumpkin. A delicious gluten-free cookie recipe for fall!
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter or vegan butter, softened to room temperature
- 1-3/4 cups sugar, divided
- 1/2 cup pure pumpkin puree
- 1/4 cup molasses
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 egg
- 2-1/3 cups gluten-free 1:1 or “cup for cup” baking flour blend
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 4-1/2 teaspoons ground ginger, divided
- 1 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup Enjoy Life Dark Chocolate Morsels
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees then line a half sheet pan with a silpat or parchment paper and set aside.
- Add butter and 1 cup sugar to the bowl of an electric mixer or large glass bowl if using a handheld mixer. Beat until lightly and fluffy. Add pumpkin puree, molasses, and vanilla then beat until combined. Add egg then mix until just combined.
- In a separate bowl stir together flour, baking soda, cinnamon, 1-1/2 teaspoons ground ginger, ground cloves, and salt. Add to the wet ingredients in two batches, mixing until just combined before adding the second batch. Add dark chocolate morsels then mix until just combined.
- Stir together remaining 3/4 cup sugar and 3 teaspoons ground ginger in a bowl then scoop cookie dough by the Tablespoon into the mixture and roll to coat. Place onto prepared baking sheet then bake for 7-8 minutes (7-1/2 minutes were perfect for mine.) Rap the sheet pan on the counter (aka drop the sheet pan from a couple inches above the countertop onto the countertop) then let cookies cool slightly before transferring to cooling racks to cool completely.
This recipe is courtesy of Iowa Girl Eats, http://iowagirleats.com.
my favorite cookie is a recipe that was in my husband’s family for monster cookies but we switched out alot of ingredients to make gluten and dairy free and very low sugar but still really good!
Cannot wait to try these cookies, a recipe that has pumpkin but not the pumpkin spice, yum! Also dairy free! Thank you!
This time of year, I love a pumpkin chocolate chip cookie!! The rest of the year, give me a big, gooey chocolate chip cookie any day :)
My daughter has a dairy allergy so I love the enjoy life brand! Our favorite cookie is good old fashioned chocolate chip!
I love a classic oatmeal cookie with a vanilla glaze!
So…I am one of those people who does not life pumpkin and chocolate together! Go figure. I finally realized this last fall. So I usually swap dried cranberries or cherries in pumpkin recipes that call for choc chips. I love love love a standard chocolate chip cookie recipe I have, and I perfected it finally using a specific mix of gf flours and earth balance to make it dairy free. I have used enjoy life chocolate chips for over five years since once I had my youngest son I could no longer eat dairy or gluten. Although, last Christmas I made a cranberry almond chocolate chunk cookie that is now a close second in my favorites. Our family loves every recipe we’ve ever tried of yours. Thank you!
My favorite cookie is salted caramel pecan.
These look really good! My favorite cookies are monster cookies.
We love Enjoy Life chocolate at our house!! My favorite cookie recipes are a pumpkin chocolate chip cookie recipe and Alton Brown’s “The Chewy” chocolate chip cookie recipe!!
My son is also dairy free and loves these chocolate chips!
My favorite cookie recipe? Just one?! I think it has to be oatmeal chocolate chip with dried apricots or candied citrus peel, but at Christmas I also love a peppermint mocha crinkle cookie!
Love this brand, can’t wait to make these cookies this weekend.
I just started using enjoy life product due to allergy in our house. My favorite cookies are monster cookies, but haven’t found a dairy free m and m alternative!
Look for the Unreal brand! I just tried their peanut m and ms which are vegan and they are to DIE for! They have a crispy m and m version that is vegan (the milk chocolate ones are not obviously).
My favorite cookie is a big soft gingersnap, but I also love any cookie with chocolate in it. The ginger sugar is a genius idea!
My favorite is a random “brownie batter” cookie recipe I have no idea where I found (maybe online?) — yum!
I only started using Enjoy Life chips to accommodate the dietary needs of friends; but once I figured out how good they were, I started using them for myself sometimes. These cookies sound like exactly what I want now that the temps are finally dropping where we live!
These look amazing! I love ALL cookies! If I haaad to pick a favorite I would say a monster cookie!
My mom’s chocolate chip cookies, gingersnaps, or cream wafers. But only when she makes them. ;) PS. I’ve been loving the Enjoy Life brand too!
Good ol’ chocolate chip! GF of course. :)
I recently tried a compost cookie at Milk Bar so I have to say that ranks in my top 5 :-)
My son has a dairy allergy so we’ve tried a couple enjoy life products. Would love to win them for a year!
Favorite cookie is Snickerdoodles:)
My favorite cookies are anything with chocolate chips and oatmeal, so I’m sure hoping I win this giveaway!!
I’m super jealous of your afternoon quiet time. My kids stop napping around the age of 2 and I have never been good at enforcing quiet time in their rooms. (My own fault!!)
Can’t wait to try these! Perhaps this needs to also become a Christmas recipe?!
Chocolate chip oatmeal cookies! Enjoy Life is the only chocolate we use in our house because of nut allergies. Love their chocolate!
My favorite cookies are oatmeal chocolate chip!
Chocolate chip oatmeal cookies! Enjoy Life is the only chocolate we use because of nut allergies. Love their chocolate!
Favorite cookies are soft batch oatmeal raisin cookies — they’ve always been my favorite!! My husband has Celiac, though, so I’ve really been enjoying finding GF recipes on your blog that I also like — especially baking, which feels the hardest to do GF. :)
I mean, chocolate chip, but the husband always wants oatmeal raisin. I’m okay with compromising on oatmeal chocolate chip :D
My favorite is samoa- would love a GF version
These look delicious, can’t wait to try them!
We don’t discriminate when it comes to cookies in this house as long as they are soft! I love a good snickerdoodle or chewy chocolate chip cookie. This recipe looks divine though!
I have a chocolate chunk cookie recipe that I make often and my kids love dearly!
I love any cookies from Sally’s baking addiction. These look amazing though. Excited to try them.
I love just a classic chocolate chip
I love peanut butter blossoms!!
Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookies are my favorite recipe
I love following your blog! You have a sweet family and I enjoy reading about them. You have some of the best recipes with cooking videos and I am learning to cook gluten-free so your instructions have been easy to use.
My favorite cookie is chocolate chip!
My favorite cookie is old fashioned chocolate chip! And a gingersnap near the holidays :)
Basically, any cookie with chocolate in it has me devouring a few! I do have a favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe that family and friends always ask for and it is so yummy…with a secret ingredient!
Yum! My ginger snap loving husband will devour these!
My favorite cookie is the classic Chocolate Chip cookie, just out of the oven, of course!
yum, I want one of these right now!
My fave cookies are lemon!! There’s any easy recipe with cool whip that is so good.
I have a few favorite cookies—sugar cookies, pumpkin with maple cream cheese frosting, and classic chocolate chip!
My favorite cookie recipe is simple chocolate chip cookies! Nothing beats them! But my second favorite is to add pumpkin for pumpkin chocolate chip cookies.
These cookies look amazing!!
I’m a purist and my favorite is a good homemade chocolate chip cookie!
I absolutely loved your last recipe with Enjoy Life and have already made it twice. Can’t wait to try this one!