Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies – Sugar Spun Run

Made with toasty brown butter, hearty oats, and loads of pumpkin spice, these pumpkin oatmeal cookies are a must-try fall recipe. No mixer required! Recipe features a how-to video!

Why You’ll Love This Recipe

• Taste: With notes of pumpkin, cozy fall spices, brown sugar and heat vanilla accompanied by heavy undertones of toasty brown butter, these pumpkin oatmeal cookies are a connoisseur combo of traditional oatmeal cookies and pumpkin pie.
• Texture: The oats create the proper stage of heartiness with out being overwhelming. These are delicate and chewy cookies, however they aren’t cakey, due to a number of effort and thought within the preparation. 
• Method: No mixer or refrigeration required, just a bit persistence for the brown butter to chill! We additionally blot the pumpkin earlier than we add it to the dough; it is a important step when making most of my pumpkin cookies.
• Look: Fairly pumpkin colour contrasting a drizzle of brown sugar glaze (much like the one utilized in my brown sugar cinnamon pop tart cookies!). They’re so good for fall!

It’s formally cookie baking season! In case you’ve loved my different heat and comfy fall cookie favorites like pumpkin snickerdoodles and apple pie cookies, I feel you’re going to like these pumpkin oatmeal cookies!

Recipe Growth

Pumpkin accommodates a LOT of water, so when creating this recipe (identical to when creating my sourdough chocolate chip cookies) I wanted to watch out to reduce the liquid elsewhere in an effort to keep away from making a cakey cookie texture.

To do that we:

1. Blot the surplus moisture from the pumpkin puree utilizing a paper towel (I additionally use this trick when making my pumpkin cheesecake cookies)
2. Brown the butter (which cooks out the water and, as a bonus, browns/caramelizes the milk solids within the butter, giving an AMAZING taste)
3. Omit the egg whites, which additionally comprise a variety of water. 

Components

Whereas it could appear to be we’re utilizing a variety of elements, most are are pantry staples. Right here’s what you want!

• Pumpkin puree. Be sure you are utilizing 100% pure pumpkin and never pumpkin pie filling, which accommodates different elements. As I discussed above, you have to to blot your pumpkin earlier than you add it to the cookie dough. I speak about this extra beneath and display it in my video.
• Oats. I like to recommend old school oats for greatest outcomes. They’ve a hearty texture with out drying out the cookies.
• Egg yolks. In case you learn my intro, you already know that we’ll be utilizing simply the yolks in as we speak’s recipe. In case you don’t need to throw away your egg whites, save them for coconut macaroons or a double batch of candied pecans!
• Pumpkin spice. For that seasonal taste! In case you don’t maintain this readily available, you possibly can at all times whip up a fast batch of my selfmade pumpkin spice.
• Corn syrup. Technically you possibly can skip this, however I actually suggest including it. It makes our glaze good and glossy and helps it arrange with a agency texture.

SAM’S TIP: It’s vital that your eggs are at room temperature so that they simply incorporate into the dough. In case you neglect to set yours out forward of time, I’ve a trick to shortly convey eggs to room temperature.

Bear in mind, that is simply an summary of the elements I used and why. For the total recipe please scroll right down to the underside of the submit!

Easy methods to Make Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies

1. Brown the butter: cook dinner the butter over medium warmth, stirring steadily, till it turns brown and smells toasty. Pour right into a heat-proof bowl and put aside to chill utterly.
2. Blot the pumpkin with paper towels till you’ve eliminated a lot of the extra moisture. The pumpkin will begin to persist with the paper towels while you’re carried out.
3. Add the remaining moist elements (sugars, blotted pumpkin, egg yolks, and vanilla) to the cooled butter and stir till mixed.
4. Whisk the dry elements collectively in separate bowl, then steadily add them to the moist elements.

5. Fold within the oats till integrated, then scoop and roll the cookies into 3 tablespoon-sized balls (or 66g, if you’re weighing them).
6. Bake and let cool on the baking sheet for a couple of minutes earlier than transferring to a cooling rack to chill utterly.

7. Make the glaze: whisk collectively the sugars, corn syrup, vanilla, and a splash of milk. As soon as the consistency is easy and the icing holds its form (chances are you’ll want so as to add a splash extra milk), it’s prepared.
8. Drizzle the glaze over the cookies in a forwards and backwards movement. You could possibly additionally dip the tops of the cookies in glaze, should you want that look!

SAM’S TIP: Don’t add the glaze whereas the cookies are nonetheless heat, or it would soften proper off. Have persistence and allow them to cool utterly, and you can be rewarded with stunning outcomes.

Regularly Requested Questions

In case you like pumpkin, take a look at the remainder of my pumpkin recipes for much more methods to fulfill your candy tooth 😋

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