Spiced Soft Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies with a delicious Pumpkin – PB Glaze! Perfect fall worthy treat!
Cozy fall weather + Your favorite drink ☕ + THESE Soft PUMPKIN OATMEAL COOKIES. Yes that’s what I am doing right now while typing this post. If you love pumpkin, you know you will absolutely love these. BUT if you don’t love pumpkin?? Well I used to be in that group too but it has changed for sure with these cookies!! These are the best darn soft & chewy cookies I have ever made.
Oats make these cookies filling and I feel a big cookie + your favorite drink in the morning makes for the perfect Grab & Go breakfast these days when I have zillion of things to take care of and seems like even 24 hours in a day are not enough!
So as you can see these cookies have all the basic pumpkin cookie ingredients : flour, butter,pumpkin. But I would suggest to follow this recipe exactly. I tried playing around with the recipe and tried my first batch by using whole wheat flour in place of all purpose flour & whole oats in place of powdered oats. My first batch tasted horrible!!
So I went with oat powder (which you can grind in your food processor) and all purpose flour to make the BEST COOKIES I have ever tasted!! And I don’t say this lightly! Try it for yourself. You will love these!
Now let’s talk about this amazing glaze we are putting over these already delicious cookies. Yes you might think peanut butter & pumpkin is such a weird combination but trust me it ROCKS together! I had doubts too and few weeks ago when I was sent PB & Company’s latest Pumpkin Peanut Butter, I wasn’t sure. I kept it stored in my pantry and one day out of desperation I took a bite & OMG! it tasted amazing. The perfect combination of spices, pumpkin & peanut butter. So today’s recipe is a lot inspired from it and you can totally skip the glaze if that’s not your thing but I am telling you to give it at try atleast once!
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- 1 cup all purpose flour
- ½ cup + 2 tbsp old fashioned oats, (grind them to powder form)
- ½+1/8 tsp baking powder
- 1.5 tsp cinnamon powder
- 1 tsp ginger powder
- ½ tsp nutmeg powder
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 stick (8 Tbsps) unsalted butter at room temperature
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ½ cup granulated white sugar
- 1 large egg
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- ¾ + ⅛ cup pumpkin puree
- 2 Tbsp Pumpkin Peanut Butter ( If you can't find pumpkin peanut butter, add 1 tbsp pumpkin puree + 1 tbsp plain peanut butter + ½ tsp pumpkin spices)
- 1 tbsp water, or more/less as needed
- 4 tbsp white powdered sugar
- Pre heat oven to 350F.
- Cream room temperature butter and both sugars for 5-6 mins until pale and fluffy.
- In a bowl, mix flour, oat powder, baking powder, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and salt. Stir until mixed.
- Once the butter & sugar mixture is pale & fluffy, add egg and vanilla extract and mix for another 30 seconds. Now add pumpkin puree and the dry mix and mix until combined evenly for a minute or so.
- Lay parchment paper on baking sheet. I like to use ice cream scoop to scoop out my cookie dough as it means even cookies. But if you don't have one, you can use a spoon.
- Scoop out cookies with little distance in between them. I ended up with 13 large and 1 small cookie on 2 cookie sheets.
- Place them in the pre heated oven. Bake for 12 mins, rotate and bake for another 12 minutes or until bottom is golden brown.
- Transfer them to a cooling rack and start preparing the glaze.
- Mix all the glaze ingredients and transfer them to a zip lock bag. Tie it tightly at the back and cut a small hole in the front to pipe the glaze on cookies. Pipe glaze on cookies in any pattern you want and enjoy!!
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Ella says
October 7, 2015 at 9:52 PMUmmmmmm they look so scrumpt
naivecookcooks says
October 8, 2015 at 8:37 PMhehe!!
Smu says
October 8, 2015 at 12:46 AMThanks for the warning on not changing the recipe. These look beautiful. I have all the ingredients, will definitely try.
naivecookcooks says
October 8, 2015 at 8:34 PMThanks and hope you give these a try! 🙂
Anu-My Ginger Garlic Kitchen says
October 8, 2015 at 2:10 AMThese cookies are so delicious and so fun. YUMMY!
naivecookcooks says
October 8, 2015 at 8:34 PMThanks girl!!
Dannii @ Hungry Healthy Happy says
October 8, 2015 at 5:05 AMSoft and chewy are the best kind of cookies in my opinion, and even better when they have pumpkin on top. I love the little drizzle on them as well.
naivecookcooks says
October 8, 2015 at 8:35 PMhehe me too Dannii! Hope you try these!
Erin R. says
October 8, 2015 at 12:26 PMOoh, I’m dying to try the new pumpkin peanut butter. I think this recipe looks like a winner.
naivecookcooks says
October 8, 2015 at 8:37 PMErin I am loving this pumpkin peanut butter!! Hope you took part in the giveaway 🙂 I hope you try this. It’s my new favorite cookie recipe 🙂
tara pittman says
October 9, 2015 at 10:03 AMI would make granola with the oats.
Joan says
October 10, 2015 at 9:12 PMThe first thing I’d do is make these cookies as they look and sound fantastic.
Annie says
October 12, 2015 at 11:01 AMOh how I love pumpkin cookies!! These look so perfect!
Sharyl Wolter says
October 12, 2015 at 11:41 AMI would make a chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting!
paige c says
October 12, 2015 at 12:22 PMI would make peanut butter granola!
Alexandra robertson says
October 13, 2015 at 3:48 PMIf I won I would totally make these!! I love sweet potato topped with peanut butter so I am sure these cookies would be amazing!!
karen says
October 13, 2015 at 10:34 PMI’d try using them in banana bread!
DJ says
October 14, 2015 at 9:30 AMI would love to make some energy bars.
Dandi D says
October 14, 2015 at 5:33 PMI love to make energy balls with peanut butter and oats.
Klaire says
October 15, 2015 at 7:26 PMHi! These look delicious. I just pulled out all the ingredients to make them, but I realized I do not have parchment paper nor a cooling rack. Will they still turn out okay, or should I abort the mission? Please let me know! Thank you!
naivecookcooks says
October 15, 2015 at 7:28 PMThat should be fine.. Parchment paper I use just so they don’t stick.. You can use anything else or grease your sheet.. And cooling rack so they don’t steam up .. you can simply place them on a perforated plate or your cooled gas grill..
Klaire says
October 15, 2015 at 7:53 PMThank you so much! I hope they turn out as great as yours look!
naivecookcooks says
October 15, 2015 at 7:55 PMI hope too!! Do let me know though! ?
Tina@GottaRunNow says
October 16, 2015 at 5:49 AMIf I win, I’ll add the PB to my oats along with some raisins. The cookies look good!
Sarah says
October 24, 2015 at 5:11 PMI would make overnight oatmeal with pumpkin peanut butter
Mary W says
October 24, 2015 at 8:10 PMI make energy bars with oatmeal and peanut butter. Using the ones here would really bump up the flavor of bars!
Susan P. says
October 24, 2015 at 8:37 PMI’d make cookies or granola bars.
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says
October 25, 2015 at 4:02 PMI’d make come wonderful quick bread!
Stella says
June 4, 2019 at 2:43 AMThat looks yummy! I can’t wait to try this. Thanks for sharing!