Pumpkin Spice White Chocolate Chip Cookies
When pumpkin season rolls around, there’s nothing better than baking a batch of chewy pumpkin cookies filled with warm spices and sweet white chocolate chips. These pumpkin white chocolate chip cookies are a perfect way to highlight pumpkin flavor while still keeping the chewy texture of a classic sugar cookie. Whether you’re sharing them at a fall season gathering or making them part of your favorite desserts lineup, this recipe delivers that perfect texture you crave. The combination of pumpkin spice flavor, golden brown edges, and melty chocolate makes these cookies one of the best pumpkin cookie recipes for the season.
You will need to take your butter out of the fridge about an hour before you would like to bake the cookies for the butter to soften but not get too soft. If you forgot to pull the butter out ahead of time, you could stick your butter in the microwave for just a few seconds until it is softened.
When your dairy products are at room temperature, they can create an emulsion. It’s essential to have an emulsion because air gets trapped, so the baked goods expand and get fluffy as it bakes.
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There are 2 different options you can find on Amazon. Pumpkin Spice Flavored Filled Baking Truffles or Pumpkin Spice Morsels
You can substitute in butterscotch chips or add in extra white chocolate chips.
Ingredient Notes
- All-purpose flour: Forms the structure of the cookie dough balls, giving body and balance to the wet ingredients.
- Pumpkin spice: A mix of warm spices that add the signature fall season flavor.
- Baking soda: Ensures the cookies rise slightly without becoming cakey cookies.
- Salt: Balances the sweetness and enhances pumpkin spice flavor.
- Unsalted butter (room temperature): Creams with sugars for the perfect chewy texture.
- Brown sugar (dark brown sugar preferred): Adds moisture and depth, giving the cookies a rich pumpkin flavor.
- Granulated sugar (white sugar): Add the sweetness
- Eggs (room temperature): Bind the cookie dough and contribute to soft pumpkin cookies with a chewy center.
- Pure vanilla extract: Enhances all the flavors and ties together the pumpkin spice flavor.
- White chocolate chips: Sweet white chocolate chips are the perfect contrast to the warm spices.
- Pumpkin spice chips: Boost the pumpkin flavor and make these cookies one of your new favorite things.
Pumpkin Spice White Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe
- Preheat your oven to 375° F. Line a sheet pan with parchment paper. Whisk together the flour, pumpkin spice, baking soda, and salt in a medium mixing bowl, set it aside.
- Cream together the butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar in your mixer on medium speed until it is light and fluffy, about 5 minutes.
- Add in the vanilla and eggs, mix just until the eggs are incorporated.
- Turn the mixer down to low and slowly add in the flour mixture.
- Add in the white chocolate chips and pumpkin spice chips, stir just until combined.
- Scoop about two tablespoons of cookie dough onto an ungreased sheet pan, making sure to keep them about two inches apart.
- Bake for 10-14 minutes until the edges are golden brown.
Pumpkin Spice White Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Ingredients
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoon pumpkin spice
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup butter room temperature
- 1 cup brown sugar packed
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 2 eggs room temperature
- 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cup white chocolate chips
- 1 cup pumpkin spice chips
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 375° F. Line a sheet pan with parchment paper.
- Whisk together the flour, pumpkin spice, baking soda, and salt in a medium mixing bowl, set it aside.
- Cream together the butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar in your mixer on medium speed until it is light and fluffy, about 5 minutes.
- Add in the vanilla and eggs, mix just until the eggs are incorporated.
- Turn the mixer down to low and slowly add in the flour mixture. Add in the white chocolate chips and pumpkin spice chips, stir just until combined.
- Scoop about two tablespoons of cookie dough onto an ungreased sheet pan, making sure to keep them about two inches apart.
- Bake for 10-14 minutes until the edges are golden brown.
Nutrition
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