Come fall, no one can seem to get enough pumpkin. Developed for the Betty Crocker Cookie Book (2019), this recipe wins for the yummy ingredient combination…but most of all, for giving us permission to eat cookies for breakfast!
Pumpkin Spice Breakfast Cookies
- Prep Time 30 min
- Total 55 min
- Servings 16
- Ingredients 14
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup chopped walnuts
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
- 1 cup canned pumpkin (from an 15-oz can; not pumpkin pie mix)
- 1/4 cup pure maple or maple-flavored syrup
- 1 2/3 cups Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups old-fashioned or quick-cooking oats
- 1 cup sweetened dried cranberries
- 1/2 cup raw unsalted hulled pumpkin seeds (pepitas)
Make With
Gold Medal Flour
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 350°F. Grease cookie sheets with shortening or cooking spray. Finely chop 1/2 cup of the walnuts. Set aside the remaining 1/4 cup chopped walnuts and the 1/2 cup finely chopped walnuts separately.
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Step2In large bowl, beat butter, granulated sugar and brown sugar with electric mixer on medium speed until blended. Add pumpkin and maple syrup; mix well. Beat in flour, pumpkin pie spice, cinnamon, baking soda and salt until well blended. Stir in oats, cranberries, pumpkin seeds and reserved 1/2 cup finely chopped walnuts; mix well.
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Step3Onto cookie sheets, drop batter by 1/4-cupfuls 2 inches apart. Spread each cookie with metal spatula into 3-inch round. Sprinkle each cookie with about 1 1/2 teaspoons of the reserved 1/4 cup chopped walnuts.
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Step4Bake 15 to 17 minutes or until edges are set. Cool on cookie sheets 5 minutes; remove from cookie sheets to cooling racks. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.
Nutrition
340
Calories
16g
Total Fat
4g
Protein
45g
Total Carbohydrate
27g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Cookie
- Calories
- 340
- Calories from Fat
- 140
- Total Fat
- 16g
- 24%
- Saturated Fat
- 7g
- 36%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 25mg
- 9%
- Sodium
- 220mg
- 9%
- Potassium
- 150mg
- 4%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 45g
- 15%
- Dietary Fiber
- 3g
- 11%
- Sugars
- 27g
- Protein
- 4g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 50%
- 50%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 4%
- 4%
- Iron
- 10%
- 10%
Exchanges:
1 1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 3 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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