Soft pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, with warm spices, nutty browned butter and milk chocolate chips.
I think it’s safe to say that the holidays are officially here. Thanksgiving is exactly two weeks away (!!), stores have their Christmas decorations up and Starbucks holiday drinks are available (along with the Great Starbucks’ Red Cup Debacle of 2015).
I also think it’s safe to say that no one officially becomes sick/tired/over pumpkin-flavored things until after Thanksgiving. At least I hope so, because I have two pumpkin goodies coming up, including this one: soft, cake-y brown butter pumpkin chocolate chip cookies.
Browned butter is one of my favorite things. Ever. I would use it in everything, if I could, and I often do. Brown butter mashed potatoes, brown butter pie crust, brown butter and sage gnocchi (oh, man…getting hungry). But browned butter is especially delicious in chocolate chip cookies. And in keeping with the holiday theme, let’s add pumpkin in the mix, too.
These cookies are soft and cake-y, as most pumpkin cookies are. There are several chewy pumpkin cookie recipes out there, but this one isn’t one of them. If you’re craving a soft, fluffy and comforting cookie, with notes of nutty browned butter that perfectly complement pumpkin and flecks of sweet milk chocolate, look no further, friends!
I hope that you enjoy these Brown Butter Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies! What’s your favorite way to use pumpkin? Let me know in the comments below!

brown butter pumpkin chocolate chip cookies
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 15 mins
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 40 1x
- Category: cookie, dessert
Description
Soft pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, with warm spices, nutty browned butter and milk chocolate chips.
Ingredients
- 2 sticks butter, browned
- 1/2 cup cane sugar (or white)
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup pumpkin puree
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
- 1 1/2 cups milk chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a skillet, melt 2 sticks butter over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until browned. The butter will smell fragrant and nutty. Pour butter into a bowl and cool, making sure to scrape all of the browned bits (that’s the good stuff!)
- Combine the flour with the spices, salt, baking soda and baking powder in a separate bowl.
- To the butter, whisk in both sugars until smooth. Add eggs and vanilla. Add pumpkin.
- Stir the flour in, in 3 additions, until just combined. Fold in chocolate chips.
- Scoop heaping tablespoons of cookie dough onto parchment lined cookie sheets. Bake at 350 degrees for 15-20 minutes, until lightly browned at edges.
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This cookie recipe sounds so delicious! I would like to do it on weekends. Sounds so good! Yummy!
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What a great recipe! My son would LOVE it! I can’t wait to try to make it!
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Oh, I just heard these Pumpkin cookies….Now, this is good afternoon snacks for the kids.
these cookies look amazing! i know that my bf would love them because he loves baked goods. perhaps we’ll make them together this weekend to celebrate easter!
This is a really interesting recipe and the cookies turned out looking so delicious. i am such a klutz everytime I bake anything. I will send this recipe to my sister and watch how she does it. She’s an excellent baker!
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These cookies look so amazing! I love this simple recipe!
I love baking chololate chip coockes but never thoguth add pumpkin puree into it. I will give them a try this weekend.
This is really amazing! Can’t wait to give it a try!
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I have never tried pumpkin cookies but I guess that as long as it has chocolate, it’ll taste great. :0)
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They look so delicious. And never imagined cookies out of pumpkins. Nice and crispy look. Must be awesomely tasty.
Pumpkin and chocolate chip?! This is a different type of cookie which I have never tried. Would like to make some for tasting. 😀
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Pumpkin is always a good idea! I’m so excited to see it in a chocolate chip cookie. Thank you for sharing such a delicious recipe 🙂
Oh yum!! These sound sooo yummy!! I’m totally pinning this for later. Thanks!
AHH! That sounds so amazing! I have to make up a triple batch of these. I have one husband who’s a giant and three boys who have bottomless pits for stomachs. If I don’t make enough, I won’t get any!
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OHHH my heavens, YES!! THESE look so moist and sensational!
These. Sound. So. Good!!!!
These are so good! The real definition of delicious where each bite is satisfying and at the same time you can’t help but go back for more!
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