Sweet spooky Chocolate Pumpkin Sandwich Cookies! Rich, flourless chocolate cookies and an easy pumpkin spice filling. Add eyes for extra Halloween fun!
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We’re combining a lot of very necessary October things here:
- Pumpkin spice
- Edible
cutespooky treats - Really good flourless chocolate cookies
- Halloween film-making at it’s homemade decor finest
- SunButter! (applies to every other month too, of course)
So as you can see, this is quite the recipe.
Think: Chocolate cookies so better-than-a-brownie decadent they practically demand milk for dunking (and I’m not even a cookies + milk kinda person). A pumpkin spice SunButter filling that tastes almost caramel-y somehow, and is both easy and very repurpose-able (a.k.a. tastes really good on EVERYTHING). And edible googly eyes so your cookie monster-wiches can stare you down while you devour them…if that isn’t creepy I don’t know what is.
I couldn’t bring you this much festive fun alone, I had help.
The recipe concept itself came to be over a phone call brainstorm sesh with my good friend and cookie co-creator, Sonya. The video was shot and spookily edited by my talented friend, Dan. And the cookies themselves could not have happened without the delicious help of my friends at SunButter.
Proof that collaborative cookies are the best kind of cookies.
Don’t let the eyes or multiple components or utter deliciousness intimidate you, I promise this recipe is very un-fancy. One bowl cookie batter, four ingredient filling, no fancy equipment, just you and your spatula and your best attempt not to eat all the batter unbaked.
The cookies. I based the cookies off this reader favorite, but chocolate instead of chocolate chip and poofier too. They are vegan, paleo, and flourless, but thanks to SunButter the texture is still soft-baked-meets-crispy-edges perfect. These are not meant to be a healthy, eat for breakfast kind of cookie (if that’s what you’re after, try these!) They are a Whoa that is hella rich! How is there not butter and flour and refined sugar in it? kinda cookie.
SunButter is the key ingredient in this cookie batter, I used my favorite No Sugar Added variety. In addition to that we’ve got stuff like cacao powder, tapioca starch, coconut sugar, and salt (because it BIG time elevates all chocolate things).
The filling. This is actually embarrassingly easy – SunButter, canned pumpkin, pumpkin pie spice, and a tablespoon of maple syrup. Stir it up, and that’s it! Skip the syrup if your SunButter is sweetened. Add a spoonful of coconut oil to thin it out if necessary. And have a good friend nearby to take your spoon away so there’s some left by the time the cookies are cool.
The eyes. I cheated, bought these sprinkles, and picked out the eyeballs. But if you’re that person, that person that DIYs everything and makes the rest of us look lazy, you could make your own.
Do you need the eyes? Nah. Do you even need the filling? Nah. Do you need the cookies in your life as soon as possible? Umm YES.
So scroll onwards! To spooky video fun and a sweet Halloween treat…
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Sweet spooky Chocolate Pumpkin Sandwich Cookies! Rich, flourless chocolate cookies and an easy pumpkin spice filling. Add eyes for extra Halloween fun!
Ingredients
Cookie
- 1 cup (250g) No Sugar Added SunButter
- 1/2 cup (80g) coconut sugar
- 1/4 cup (30g) tapioca starch
- 1/4 cup (20g) cacao or cocoa powder
- 1/3 cup (80g) nondairy milk
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp salt
Filling
- 1/2 cup pumpkin puree
- 1/2 cup No Sugar Added SunButter
- 1 tbsp maple syrup
- 1 tbsp pumpkin pie spice
- Optional: 1 tbsp coconut oil (if it’s too thick)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350F.
- In a bowl, whisk together the SunButter, coconut sugar, milk, and vanilla until smooth.
- Add the tapioca starch, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt.
- Mix to form a thick dough.
- Scoop out 1 tablespoon of dough and roll into a ball. Arrange on a baking pan lined with parchment paper (leave room in between, they will spread so I only recommend 8-10 per pan). Repeat until all the dough is gone, you will need 2-3 pans/batches.
- Bake for 12-14 minutes at 350F.
- Let them cool for at least 5 minutes before moving to a cooling rack to cool completely.
- For the filling, stir together all the ingredients until smooth.
- Spoon a dollop of filling onto one cookie, top with another, and squish into a cookie sandwich. Add sprinkle eyes for extra Halloween vibes.
- Enjoy!
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 sandwich (2 cookies + filling)
- Calories: 291
- Sugar: 14g
- Fat: 20g
- Saturated Fat: 2g
- Carbohydrates: 23g
- Fiber: 5g
- Protein: 8g
Keywords: halloween, vegan, gluten-free, chocolate, healthy, paleo, flourless, baking, dessert
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