The sun is lower in the sky, the days are shorter, and the harvest has come and gone. That means it’s time to put pumpkin in just about anything you can imagine. Until recently I didn’t have much of a taste for pumpkin, but doing a little experimenting has changed my mind about that fall gourd.
I came up with a quick and simple (just the way I like recipes) cake mix pumpkin cookie recipe that is sure to become one of your winter favorites.
This is very simple to mix together using a hand mixer.
Mix the cake mix, pumpkin, pumpkin spice, and eggs together.
Then stir in the chocolate and/or cinnamon chips with a firm rubber spatula or spoon.
I have had a difficult time finding cinnamon chips, but they are well worth using. I have resorted to ordering them on Amazon. I have ordered them from a couple different suppliers on Amazon. One supplier I received the packages of chips and they appeared to have melted and solidified into a solid chunk. That particular company would not refund money. I have ordered Hersey’s Cinnamon Baking Chips from this supplier on Amazon and have not had an issue. Plus this company will issue a refund if there is a problem.
If you order from Nuts.com, I have seen them on that site as well.
They are ready to scoop and bake.
I bought a small, inexpensive scooper from Walmart specifically for scooping cookie dough, but you could use a spoon to scoop the batter out and the back of a second spoon to push the batter off the first spoon onto the pan.
Sometimes I bake 1 tray at a time on the middle rack of my oven, but I often don’t want to deal with baking 4 trays separately. In that case I will try to center the oven racks as much as possible and put both cookie trays in and rotate from top to bottom and bottom to top half way through the cooking process.
Make sure when they are done to let them cool on the cookie tray for about 5 minutes before moving them to a cooling rack.
While the cookies are cooling I make my frosting with softened cream cheese, powdered sugar and a little bit of milk to thin it out slightly to make the frosting easier to spread.
These cake mix pumpkin cookies have become my new favorite cookie that I make whenever I get that pumpkin craving.
Enjoy!
Pumpkin Cookies
Equipment
- 1 Large bowl and hand mixer Stand mixer with paddle attachment
- 2 cookie trays
- 1 rubber spatula
- 1 cookie scoop 2 spoons
Ingredients
- 1 box yellow cake mix
- 15 ounce can pumpkin
- 2 tsp pumpkin spice
- 2 each eggs
Stir in:
- 1/3 cup cinnamon baking chips
- 1/3 cup dark chocolate chips
Frosting
- 2 cups powder sugar
- 3 tbsp cream cheese softened
- 2 tbsp milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Using a stand mixer or hand beaters, mix together cake mix, pumpkin, pumpkin spice, and eggs.
- Stir in the cinnamon and chocolate chips.
- Scoop out onto parchment lined sheet tray about 2 inches apart.
- Bake for 12 to 14 minutes until firm and slightly brown.
- Let sit on cookie tray for about 5 minutes before removing from pan to a rack to cool.
- Whisk together frosting ingredients. May need to add a little more milk to reach a spreadable frosting.
- Frost cooled cookies.