These nut-free, egg-free Gluten Free Pumpkin Cookies are studded with luscious mini dark chocolate chips engulfed in rich pumpkin cookie dough.
Gluten Free Pumpkin Cookies with Chocolate Chips
Crispy on the outside with an incredible crumb on the inside, Gluten Free Pumpkin Cookies with Chocolate Chips are an easy to make gluten free dessert.
Gluten Free Dessert Recipes
They’re ideal for holidays like Halloween and Thanksgiving, but so good we make them all year round.
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
You’ll be astounded at how addictive these nut-free, egg-free cookies are!
Gluten Free Pumpkin Cookies with Chocolate Chips
Ingredients
- ¼ cup coconut flour
- ¼ cup arrowroot powder
- 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
- ½ teaspoon celtic sea salt
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ cup salted butter, cold, cut into 12 pieces
- ¼ cup canned pumpkin puree
- ¼ cup honey
- ½ cup chocolate chips
Instructions
- In a food processor, combine flours, pumpkin pie spice, salt, and baking soda
- Pulse in butter, pumpkin, and honey until dough forms
- Remove blade from food processor and stir in chocolate chips by hand
- Press balls of dough down firmly
- Bake at 350°F for 10-15 minutes
- Cool for 1 hour on baking sheet (do not handle prior or cookies will break)
- Serve
Healthy Pumpkin Recipes
I love pumpkin because of its deep, gorgeous color and also because it is:
- Flavorful
- Fiber Rich
- Nutrient Dense
Further, this fruit is full of carotenoids (a precursor to vitamin A) and contains loads of vitamin C.
Coconut Flour Recipes
Over time, I had spent numerous hours attempting to make gluten free pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, each year working to perfect a recipe.
Canned Pumpkin Recipes
The challenge was the cookies were cake-like. Using pumpkin puree has the tendency to make puffy little things that are more like a muffin top than a cookie.
Nut Free Recipes
I continued in my pumpkin pursuit because many of you suffer from a tree nut allergy, and others have kids that attend nut-free schools–here’s my Nut-Free Recipes page for you!
The requests for nut-free recipes were flying in, so I had to create a nut free cookie, and because of egg allergies, they had to be egg free too.
Egg Free Coconut Flour Cookies
I made more than a dozen batches of nut-free, egg-free, grain-free cookies and was not yet pleased.
Recipe with Under 10 Ingredients
I took a step back and referred to Coconut Mama’s website for egg-free coconut flour cookies. I made her astonishing 3-ingredient recipe containing coconut flour, butter, and honey.
Almond Flour Recipes
For my palate, which is accustomed to high-fat almond flour dessert recipes, the result was a tad dry, but a wonderful start.
Arrowroot Powder Cookies
I then added arrowroot flour, also known as arrowroot starch, a lot more butter, and pumpkin.
Voila! The best nut-free Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe was born.
Coconut Flour Cookies
The coconut flour-arrowroot base is so amazing that I foresee using this flour combination for many other cookie recipes.
Gluten Free Cookies
This gluten free cookie recipe punches every button because I ended up testing it 21 times to get it just right!
Easy Pumpkin Cookies with a Cuisinart Food Processor
When it comes to you, my readers, making cookies should be easy, and this recipe is.
All you need to do is throw the ingredients into a food processor, pulse, then stir in the chocolate chips and bake ’em up.
Healthy Pumpkin Desserts
Lately, I’ve been going gaga over pumpkins! If you’re in the same boat, check out my Healthy Pumpkin Recipes, including:
This post is an oldie but goodie from the archives, I first published this Gluten Free Pumpkin Cookies with Chocolate Chips recipe in 2015.
Elaine says
Thank You for this great recipe Elana…..I am adventurous so will try other things in place of those things that might not work for me…coconut oil is one of the must tries along with almond flour instead of the arrowroot….I looked on line yesterday for a recipe like this…..
Sherry says
Thanks, can’t wait to try these. On a side note I wanted to mention that I absolutely love your paleo porridge. I make it once a we k once the weather starts to get cool. This week I had leftover pumpkin in the fridge so I added about a 1/4 cup and it was amazing!
Karen says
Not all of us can add dairy back into our diets. For me it’s lethal. Has anyone successfully made these with coconut oil? If so, did you reduce the amount? Thank you for sharing!
Rhonda says
Thank you for the recipe Elana, these look great! I love your posts! And thank you for lightening up the coconut flour with the arrowroot, I also might try tapioca. The butter and fiber from the coconut flour will slow the G. I. of the starch. I used to stress over a little starch but have since learned if I go too keto I get depressed, so now I’m more balanced and it’s better. Happy baking!
Anabella says
Honey is toxic if if is heated in ayuvedic. Please do check.
Tara says
What can be substituted for the butter???
Cecilia says
Tara, I’m going to try it with coconut oil tomorrow but I’m 99.99% sure it will work :)
Anny says
Hope we don’t see a lot of recipes with arrowroot. It’s too bad more and more paleo recipes are using it. Too high in carbs. It’s another substitute for high carb starches.
Paleo Pants says
Cold butter sub for dairy free? I suppose coconut oil would work, but how and how much?
Becky says
How are these considered paleo when they contain butter (dairy)?
Rachael says
Paleo encourages the use of grass-fed butter.
Ashley says
If not anyone can ALWAYS make clarifired buter/ ghee (butter w/ out dairy). That’s what I always do.
Shelly says
I can’t cook with arrowroot (or tapioca starch) because it’s high glycemic. Does anyone know of a substitution for arrowroot or can it be left out?
Thanks!
Ashley says
Agreed!
Ru says
You could try 1/8 to 1/4 cup of oat fiber — not oat flour. Have not tried it myself for this recipe but have sub it in others to good effect.
Adriana says
We either use coconut flour in place of Arrowroot or we just don’t add arrowroot and add more almond flour in its place.
Elana says
Adriana, have you tried that specifically in this recipe? I’m curious if it would work :-)