I have a confession to make. I am a lazy baker. I feel so much better now that you all know this about me. You still love me, right? I knew you would! I recently sent my husband to the store to get snacks to take to a friends house for our weekly Bronco Football gathering. He chose Halloween sugar cookies, which were fine, but he made the huge mistake of confessing that he had seen Pumpkin Chocolate Chip cookies in the bakery and he passed them up. Um, HELLO! What was he thinking??? I immediately demanded that he return to the store to buy said cookies, but he just laughed at me. By the next time I made it to the store and looked for them, they were all gone, and I was left with a cookie craving that I couldn’t fulfill. I was going to have to (gasp!) bake my own! I looked at a few recipes but like I said, I’m a lazy baker. I like to buy pre-made mix and just add my milk and eggs and… Voila! I have instant cookies! This recipe is the next best thing. You can’t beat easy and delicious!
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
1 box cake mix – any flavor (I used Spiced Cake Mix)
1 15oz can Pure Pumpkin (not pumpkin pie filling)
1 bag of chocolate chips
Pre-heat oven to 350
Bake time: 20-25 minutes
In a medium bowl, mix your cake mix and your pumpkin together with a small hand mixer (you’ll get a better consistency than trying to hand stir it).
Add chocolate chips and mix again
Drop your cookies on the cookie tray. Because these are made with a cake mix, the cookies won’t spread while cooking and for the most part retain the shape that they were dropped in. You could get crazy and put them in fun shapes!
Bake at 350 for 20-25 minutes. The smaller the cookie, the less baking time. Larger cookies will require the full 25 minutes.
My kids, and even my non-pumpkin loving husband, loved these super easy cookies. Enjoy!
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Jen loves to read. She can’t stop herself. It’s become an obsession. She is in love with her husband, kids, iced coffee and books. Jen lives in beautiful Colorado but is originally from the West Coast.
Mmmm! Looks yummy! Think I’m going to have to make some.
YUMMM!! YES! Can’t wait to try these! They look so yummy! Thanks:)
I bet these would taste great!
Now even I could make these! Not only do I tend to be a lazy baker (you are not alone) but I am not a very good baker either. I do love PUMPKIN anything and these sound super delicious!
I love all things pumpkin and then adding in chocolate chips = heavenly!
These remind me of years ago when I made my first pumpkin cookies. They were so moist and tender. I thought they were the best cookies ever…. well, next to plain chocolate chip cookies. The plate of them… looks good to me.
Oh wow, I think this is the easiest recipe I have ever seen and since you can use whatever cake box mix, the possibilities are endless! I am so going to make some!
Those are my kind of cookies! I love how easy they seem to make too. I have to come up with a few dozen for our schools carnival. I may just be sending these in 🙂
Cake mix for cookies, woot! We use it for donuts too. 🙂 This recipe looks great!
Oh these look yummy – I wonder if they would be good dunked in a cup of tea x
Looks delicious and perfect for the Halloween. My kids would gobble this up in a heartbeat.
Super yummy, super quick, sounds like my kind of recipe.
Jen will you make some and deliver them?
I’ve never thought of mixing pumpkin with chocolate before. This sounds delicious. I love pumpkin pie and I love chocolate I guess the two of them can’t go wrong right? Will try this out. Thanks.
Those sound good! Of course I always mess up making cooking though
There is nothing wrong with being a lazy baker! Now I want pumpkin chocolate chip cookies.
Oh my gosh I am so trying this…this weekend! I love easy recipes that are also impressive! I can’t wait! You’ve got me really excited about these cookies now. Thanks so much for the recipe.
Those look amazing. I am doing some baking tomorrow and I think I will try this. As a working mom, I always appreciate baking shortcuts. Thanks for sharing this!
What a great fall treat, just made pumpkin bread with choc chips, but you could freeze some of these for another day. Going to try these next!! Thanks for the quick shortcut.
These really look delicious! I’d love to bake these for when we have friends/family over to watch the UGA football game!
Anything that is easy to cook or bake is right up my alley. I love that the baking time is less for these because I don’t have a lot of time to bake. My boys love cookies though so it would be great to prepare these quickly and take them with us on-th-go.
Easy to make and delicious? Yes please!
YUmmm.. these look yummy; I made cupcakes like that the other day, but never thought of making cookies..what a great idea and I love the chocolate chips in there.. thanks for sharing
You had me at pumpkin LOL Pinning this to my pumpkpin board 🙂
Oh yum. I love pumpkin, but even pumpkin can be better with chocolate!
I love pumpkin cookies. And of course anything with chocolate in it is a good thing to have.
Thanks for the great recipe! These look easy and delicious!
Yes, I do believe it is genius. I’m going to try to this before Halloween.
I love the BC spice cake mix. MMMMMMMMM
Gram and I made these cookies yesterday. We followed your recipe exactly, let the 2.75 yo boys put in the chocolate chips.They actually watched them baking which is a miracle since they jump,hop, climb, and spin constantly.When the cookies were done they practically inhaled them and we had to force them to save some for their sisters after school snack. We will be making these again and again. Thanks for this easy peasy recipe.
Great recipe im going to try that for Thanksgiving 🙂 Thanks!
These I have to try! Great idea.
I made this recipe and loved it so much I’m mentioning on my Friday Favorites on my blog tomorrow. So you’ll probably see the ping back! Thanks!
Thanks so much Kristen!!
Lindsey, so glad you guys had so much fun with this!
i have made these cookies but not with chocolate chips – sounds like a great addition!
I have never had anything even close to Pumpkin Pie and Chocolate Chip Cookies before, but it sounds wonderful, I will give these a try.
Thanks for the Post and the Recipe!
My Twin Terror Daughters and I have made those cookies last night – delicious! Or as we say in Polish – “mniam-mniam”, Thanx for sharing
I love Pumpkin in recipes, and these Pumpkin Chocolate Chip cookies look so delicious that I have to make them. They are not to hard for my to make. Thanks for sharing this awesome recipe.
I love the idea of using box cake mix to make cookies. Not having to cream together butter and sugar makes all the work out of cookie making. Your Pumpkin Chocolate Chip cookies sound perfect for the holidays.
Jen,
These are a winner in my house! I froze part of the batch, pulled them out and they were just as good as fresh baked. 🙂
Whoo hoo to everyone trying and loving these cookies!
I made some this weekend for a Halloween party and I used vanilla cake mix instead of spiced. I can to bake them a little longer (28 mins per batch) but they were delicious!
I also am a lazy baker, but I think I can handle these!
I forgot about these after I bought the mix. But, I am making them today for part of our Halloween festivities.
The ones I made yesterday are gone! The kids that were around devoured them. I have another batch in the oven at this very moment. These are ours!!
This recipe sounds & looks so good! And I love that its so easy! I cant wait for my boyfriend to make these cookies for me!!
Oh yum! These sound delicious!
I really love the taste of pumpkin and chocolate chip cookies! This recipe looks quick and easy to try!
I still have pumpkin from the garden left and we never turn down chocolate. This will make a nice addition to my stack of pumpkin recipes, thanks for sharing.
My daughter loves baking with pumpkin. It’s her favorite and this recipe is very simple to make. She is going to love it.
I so cant wait to try these they look and sound amazing
These would be great and my sister in law loves anything with chocolate in it.
My daughter made this recipe. We absolutely loved it. She will be making it for the holidays. Thanks for sharing it.
You rock! I made these for a potluck last night, and there were NONE left! I made them with Enjoy Life chocolate chips (dairy and nut free), so the food allergy mamas could enjoy them too. Definitely a keeper 🙂
I’m so happy to hear everyone is loving the recipe! I’ll be making another batch for Christmas!
My brother loves Pumpkin cookies-I may make him some from this recipe with chocolate chips!
I cant wait to make these cookies! I love anything with pumpkin in it! Thank you for sharing!