5 Must-Try Pumpkin Cookie Recipes to Spice Up Your Fall

Fall has arrived, and with it comes a craving for pumpkin spice that's as powerful and compelling as brains are to zombies. And what better way to satisfy the primal drive for pumpkin than with some soft, spicy, home-baked pumpkin cookies? We have all the pumpkin cookie recipes you'll need to enjoy fall to its fullest. Now isn't that better than brains?

If you're a purist, then these pumpkin spice cookies are calling your name. They're soft, chewy, and packed with all the fall flavors you crave. 

Servings: 18 to 20 large cookies

Ingredients

• 3 cups flour
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon allspice
• ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• ½ cup canned pumpkin
• 1¼ cups granulated white sugar
• ½ cup melted butter
• ½ cup coconut oil
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Instructions

1. Preheat your oven to 350°F.
2. Mix flour, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl.
3. In a separate bowl, mix pumpkin, sugar, vanilla, oil, and melted butter.
4. Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and mix well.
5. Place 2-tablespoon sized dough balls on a cookie sheet.
6. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes or until cookies start to brown.

If pumpkin spice is your jam, then get ready to lose your mind! Because these soft, chewy frosted pumpkin ginger cookies from The Comfort of Cooking are going to be the best thing you've tasted all fall. 

Looking for something a little sweeter? These cookies have lovely pumpkin spice flavors but add the sweetness of white chocolate chips and the crunch of walnuts and pepitas. 

Servings: 36 small cookies

Ingredients

• 1½ cups granulated white sugar
• ½ cup softened butter
• 1 (8-ounce) OR ½ (15-ounce) can pumpkin
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 egg
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• ½ teaspoon ground ginger
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 2½ cups flour
• ½ cup white chocolate chips
• ½ cup walnuts
• ½ cup pepitas

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. Combine the sugar with the butter and blend well in a mixing bowl.
3. Add pumpkin, vanilla, and egg; beat until smooth.
4. Combine cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, salt, baking powder, baking soda, and flour in s separate bowl; add to the pumpkin mixture and mix until smooth.
5. Fold in the white chocolate chips, walnuts, and pepitas.
6. Make tablespoon-sized dough balls and place on a greased cookie sheet.
7. Bake for about 16 minutes or until the edges are firm.

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If you have yet to discover the wonders of brown butter, these pumpkin cookies are the place to start. It adds a warm nuttiness that goes perfectly with earthy pumpkin, warm spices, and bittersweet chocolate chips. Don't believe us? Bake up a batch of Brown Butter Blondie's chewy chocolate chip pumpkin cookies and be prepared to taste a new seasonal favorite. 

Snickerdoodles already hold a place near and dear to our hearts as the G.O.A.T. cookie. But when you add pumpkin to the already warm and spicy cookie? Oh my!! Step aside, kid, there's a new G.O.A.T. in town. Try these pumpkin snickerdoodles from Sally's Baking Recipes, and we're sure you'll agree. 

Pumpkin is, without a doubt, the culinary star of the fall. And when it's baked into cookies? We could go on and on about the sweet, spicy, soft cookies, but we'd rather you discover it for yourself. So try out one of these pumpkin cookie recipes and find yourself a new fall favorite.