Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies with Dark Chocolate

These cookies are really more like mini cakes - they aren't the crunchy, crumbly cookie type, but more like a chewy and moist cookie.  They have an amazing pumpkin flavor!  I made these large, so the recipe yielded about 22 cookies, but if you make them smaller I think it would yield about 30.

Nuts would also taste great in here - though I left mine without.




Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies with Dark Chocolate

Ingredients:
-1 1/2 cups wheat flour
-3/4 cup oats
-1 tsp. cinnamon
-1/2 tsp. baking soda
-1/2 tsp. salt
-1/4 tsp. nutmeg
-3/4 cup pumpkin puree (not canned pie filling, which has lots of spices in it - real pumpkin puree!)
-1 cup sugar
-1/4 cup coconut oil
-1/2 tbsp. ground flax seed
-1 tsp. vanilla
-1/2 cup dark chocolate chips

Method:

Preheat oven to 350F.  Stir together flour, oats, cinnamon, baking soda, salt, and nutmeg in a bowl.  

In another bowl, stir together pumpkin, sugar, coconut oil, flax seed, and vanilla.  Then combine wet and dry ingredients.  Mix in chocolate chips.

Spoon out dough onto a greased cookie sheet and bake for 20 minutes.  Transfer to a wire rack to cool.