Gluten Free Pumpkin Cookies (Vegan)
Gluten Free Pumpkin Cookies (Vegan): soft ‘n fluffy gluten free pumpkin cookies bursting with chocolate chips or your favorite add-ins! An easy recipe for moist, cake-like vegan gluten free pumpkin cookies with warm fall spices.
What’s your favorite kind of pumpkin cookie? Chewy & firm with just a light pumpkin flavor or soft ‘n cakey, with a lotta pumpkin WOW factor?
If you said chewy & firm… you know where the door is. (J/K!!!)
If you said soft & cakey, with all of the pumpkin star power: Welcome. THE gluten free pumpkin cookies you’ve been looking for are here.
And you know I mean business when I use both bold and italics.
Since I started this food blog, pumpkin has been kind of a thing for me. And kind of a thing for you. No matter how many pumpkin recipes I share, you keep asking for more!
A sampling, if you will, of fall-inspired goodies on BB: Gluten Free Pumpkin Bread, Vegan Gluten Free Pumpkin Muffins, pumpkin breakfast staples: Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Breakfast Bars, Easy Vegan Pumpkin Bread and Vegan Pumpkin Muffins.
And there’s more where that came from. Can you believe?!
But the one request that I keep getting? And getting. And getting. Easy gluten free pumpkin cookies. So guess what I’m sharing today? (Let’s act as if neither of us has seen or heard from the blogpost title.)
Gluten Free Pumpkin Cookies That are Vegan!
This vegan gluten free pumpkin chocolate chip cookies recipe yields soft ‘n fluffy gluten free pumpkin cookies that are moist, cake-like, and bursting with warm fall spices. Does it get any better than this?
Vegan Gluten Free Pumpkin Cookies Ingredients
Looking for moist, cake-like pumpkin cookies that just happen to be vegan and gluten free? Look no further than this pumpkin chocolate chip cookies recipe. You’ll find vegan gluten free pantry staples like coconut oil, oat flour, maple syrup, and a flax egg.
- Pumpkin – use 100% pumpkin puree, not anything with added sugar like pumpkin pie mix
- Oat Flour – use gluten free oat flour to ensure this recipe is GF. You can also make your own Gluten Free Oat Flour.
- Maple Syrup + Coconut Sugar – you might try swapping maple syrup with brown rice syrup, and coconut sugar with a combo of organic cane sugar and brown sugar. Just beware that these changes might affect the overall texture.
- Baking Soda, Baking Powder, Salt
- Pumpkin Pie Spice + Cinnamon – two of my favorite fall spices! These two ingredients greatly amp up the autumn-inspired pumpkin spice vibe of your soon-to-be fresh baked cookies.
- Chocolate Chips – these go so well with pumpkin cookies, but feel free to use any of your favorite add-ins.
- And more… See the photo above for the rest!
How to Make Gluten Free Pumpkin Cookies
Preheat
First things first, preheat the oven to 350°F. Then, line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Mix the Dry
Mix all of the dry ingredients in a medium mixing bowl: gluten free oat flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice and salt.
Mix the Wet
Now, whisk together all of the wet ingredients in a large mixing bowl: pumpkin puree, coconut sugar, pure maple syrup, coconut oil, flax egg and vanilla.
Combine
Pour the dry mixture over the wet mixture, then stir and fold it altogether to make your pumpkin cookie dough.
Now, optionally fold in vegan chocolate chips or your favorite add-ins.
Scoop the Pumpkin Cookie Dough
Scoop and drop balls of pumpkin cookie dough onto the lined baking sheet.
Last pre-bake step: dotting each cookie top with chocolate chips or your favorite add-ins. This is the perfect time to flatten the cookies a bit–press the toppings down to flatten each pumpkin cookie.
Bake, Cool & Enjoy the Best Pumpkin Cookies!
Bake for about 14 minutes. Then, cool and enjoy the best gluten free pumpkin cookies!
🍪 Related Vegan Gluten Free Cookie Recipes: Gluten Free Vegan Oat Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies • Vegan Gluten Free Banana Cookies • Gluten Free Edible Cookie Dough (GF)
Testimonials
Sara says, “These turned out great! Not too sweet (which I like) and nice and moist. I was making them for a friend who can’t have coconut, so I subbed the oil with 1/4 c more pumpkin and used organic cane sugar. I used 72% dark chocolate chunks. I got 22 cookies and just ate 4 for breakfast. :)”
Morgen says, “These are incredible! My roommates who are sometimes unsure of my gf/df/refined sugar free recipes loved them too.”
Gabriel says, “Just made these and I’m so impressed. They were every simple to make and carry so much flavor!!”
Angela says, “These cookies were a hit! Definitely have to double the recipe next time. 🙂 I subbed Bob’s GF 1:1 flour and they came out great. Thank you from me and my family!”
Storing and Freezing Your Vegan Gluten Free Pumpkin Cookies
For Soft Pumpkin Cookies: store cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 1 week. Pumpkin cookies will stay soft and moist at room temperature.
For Firm Pumpkin Cookies: store cookies in the refrigerator for 1-2 weeks. Pumpkin cookies will keep longer in the refrigerator and be firmer. Keep in mind that condensation may gather on top of the cookies here. 😉
Best if eaten within the first few days. As always, with fresh-baked goods made from whole ingredients, these gluten free pumpkin cookies are best if eaten within the first few days.
can you freeze these gluten free pumpkin cookies?
Yes! Store your vegan pumpkin cookies in a freezer-friendly container for 1-2 months. Allow the pumpkin chocolate chip cookies to thaw for 10-20 minutes, or heat in 10-second increments until just warm.
The best soft ‘n moist gluten free pumpkin cookies—perfectly spiced, easy to make & delicious!
Recommended Tools for Perfect Pumpkin Cookies
Wondering what my favorite baking tools are? Click on the links below to find out and explore.
- Medium Cookie Scoop – my favorite cookie scoop for quickly scooping up cookie dough. Great for uniform-sizing of cookies!
- Coconut Oil – my no-butter, vegan alternative to the best vegan + gf cookie recipes!
- Coconut Sugar – adds such a delicious, lightly caramel flavor to these vegan pumpkin cookies.
- Refined Sugar-Free Chocolate – try chopping up this paleo + vegan chocolate to use in place of your usual vegan chocolate chips.
Are you ready to get your pumpkin on? Let’s do it! I’ll grab the pumpkin, you grab the vegan chocolate chips! I can’t wait to hear what you think of my recipe. As always, I’m so grateful that you’re here, enjoying the sweeter side of life with me. ‘Til the next baking adventure…
Sending you all my love and maybe even a dove, xo Demeter ❤️
📸 Did you make this gluten free pumpkin cookies recipe? Take a pic and share it on Instagram with the hashtag #beamingbaker & tag @beamingbaker. I’d love to see it! 📸
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Gluten Free Pumpkin Cookies (Vegan)
- Total Time: 39 minutes
- Yield: 18–24 cookies (mine made 21 cookies) 1x
- Diet: Gluten Free
Description
Soft ‘n fluffy gluten free pumpkin cookies bursting with chocolate chips! An easy recipe for moist, cake-like vegan gluten free pumpkin cookies with warm fall spices.
Ingredients
Dry Ingredients
- 1 cup gluten free oat flour – if using homemade oat flour, make sure it’s very finely ground (not coarse)*
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ¾ teaspoon pumpkin pie spice*
- ¼ teaspoon salt
Wet Ingredients
- ½ cup 100% pure pumpkin puree
- 3 tablespoons coconut sugar
- 3 tablespoons pure maple syrup
- 3 tablespoons melted coconut oil
- 1 flax egg (1 tablespoon ground flaxseed + 3 tablespoons warm water, whisked together, set for 15 minutes)
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Optional Add-ins
- ¾ cup vegan chocolate chips
Optional Topping
- 2–3 tablespoons vegan chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or greased foil. Set aside.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together all the dry ingredients: oat flour, baking powder, baking soda, spices and salt. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, whisk together all the wet ingredients: pumpkin, coconut sugar, maple syrup, coconut oil, flax egg and vanilla.
- Add the dry mixture to the wet mixture. Using a rubber spatula, stir and fold until well mixed, and no flour patches remain. Optionally, fold in chocolate chips.
- Using a medium cookie scoop, scoop and drop cookie dough balls onto the prepared baking sheet, evenly spaced apart. Cookies will spread just a bit; if you don’t flatten them, you’ll get very round, domed cookies. Optionally, dot with chocolate chips—this will help if you choose to flatten the cookies (the dough is sticky). If desired: using a fork, flatten the cookies to desired thickness.
- Bake for 12-16 minutes. Mine took 14 minutes. Allow cookies to cool on the sheet for about 12 minutes (on a cooling rack). Then, transfer cookies directly onto a cooling rack to cool completely before storing. Storing instructions below. Enjoy!
More Vegan Gluten Free Cookies
Notes
*If using homemade oat flour, make sure to sift the flour to remove coarse bits of oats that could create grainy, overly moist cookies.
Where to Buy Ingredients: Gluten Free Oat Flour or try Homemade Oat Flour | Coconut Sugar | Vegan Chocolate Chips | Coconut Sugar | Ground Flaxseed | Coconut Oil | Pure Maple Syrup
Storing Instructions: Store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 1 week. Cookies are best on the 1st and 2nd day, but still good throughout the week.
For firmer cookies: Store in the refrigerator for 1-2 weeks.
To Freeze: Store in a freezer-friendly container for 1-2 months. Allow to thaw for 10-20 minutes at room temperature, or heat in 10-second increments in the microwave until just warm.
Recommended Tools: Medium Cookie Scoop or Small Cookie Scoop | Mixing Bowls | Baking Sheet | 4oz Prep Bowls | Unbleached Parchment Paper | 4 Event Timer | Cooling Rack
Nutrition Information: is an estimate based on the best-selling, most common brands per ingredient. Also, it’s estimated based on 24 servings per recipe, made without optional ingredients.
- Prep Time: 25 mins
- Cook Time: 14 mins
- Category: Dessert, Snacks
- Method: Bake
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 93
- Sugar: 7g
- Sodium: 30mg
- Fat: 5g
- Saturated Fat: 3g
- Unsaturated Fat: 2g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 13g
- Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 1g
- Cholesterol: 0mg
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Great recipe! Just swapped out coconut oil for 1 stick of soy free vegan butter. Turned half the batch into pumpkin snickerdoodle and the other half the normal recipe.
Thanks Susan! 🙂 Loved hearing about your swaps. Pumpkin snickerdoodles sound amazing!!
This cookie is so fun. It’s like getting an oatmeal cookie + pumpkin cake + chocolate chip cookie all in 1.
Yeah it is! 🙂 Oh I just love your description of these cookies!
These cookies were a hit! Definitely have to double the recipe next time 🙂 I subbed Bob’s GF 1:1 flour and they came out great. Thank you from me and my family!
Woohoo! That’s so awesome Angela! And I’m glad that the flour sub worked out too. 🙂
What about quinoa flour? It seems to be a similar absorbancy to regular flour. Ive got to try the pay flour but first I need to use all this awesome protein flour.
Hm, I haven’t tried it so I can’t say for sure. If you try it, let me know how it goes!
Hello! .
I am a vegan and I usually do not like pumpkin, yet I made my own pumkin puree, used chia seeds instead of flax seeds, and used more maple syrup than coconut sugar (1 tbsp of coconut sugar used.)
Let me tell you, they are very, very, very delicious!
Thank you so much for this inspiration!
P.S. ~ the chocolate chips add a bit more sweetness to cover me sweet tooth .. (I used the enjoy life chips instead as well.)
Oh I’m so happy to hear the cookies were such a success MaKayla! Thanks for taking the time to let me know! .
This was such a fun and easy recipe to make! First time milling my own oat flour- I’m only disappointed that I hadn’t started doing so a long time ago. Mind blown. I added pumpkin seeds for extra pumpkin vibes- turned out delish! Making again today. 🙂
Hi Amy! Woohoo!! It’s oddly satisfying to make your own oat flour right?? 🙂 Love that you added pumpkin seeds to up the pumpkin factor. Happy Baking!
Delicious! I don’t “get” pumpkin spice lattes nut I do get pumpkin cookies and pumpkin spice in the cookies, so it wasn’t going to feel like fall (especially with Atlanta temps being in the nineties!) without something like these. I love them. Will definitely make again. But—true confessions—I made them without the flax egg! I made up a flax egg but forgot about it as I let it sit. I remembered once they had been baking for 5 minutes and I was cleaning up and stumbled upon the bowl with the flax egg. Duh! I was so upset but they still turned out wonderfully. I can’t imagine them being any better, even with the flax. Can you explain how the texture would be different with the flax egg? I realize flax has some oil/fat, but it’s not like they were dry without the flax. I don’t really understand the alchemy of baking—that’s why I defer to your wizardry (when I’m not leaving out key ingredients!!!!) and am so grateful for you! (Your blog is fun to read and the photos are eye candy).
Hi Ellen! Yowza about those temps still being in the nineties!! Although, I should say that the weather here in Minneapolis has been a bit crazy. Think: 80s one day, 30s the next. Oh wow about the flax egg. Let me just say: I’m so happy to hear that they worked out anyway! As for the flax egg: its general purpose is to bind ingredients together. In this recipe, it does that and it lends a cakey texture–meaning, a light and fluffy texture. 🙂 Thank you so much for your kind comment. I truly always look forward to reading them! I, too, am grateful for you. 🙂
Hi! Can I sub coconut or almond flour?
Hi! To be honest…it will be quite risky. But you can try (no promises): 1 cup almond flour and 3 tablespoons coconut flour to sub the GF oat flour. Almond flour holds moisture really well and coconut flour absorbs it like crazy, so this is my best guess for how it might work. Let me know! Enjoy.
Can I use pumpkin pie mix?? If so, would I then not use pumpkin pie spice?
Hi Dawn! Hm, not sure how this would work because some brands add in additional ingredients to the pumpkin purée beyond just spices.
Hiiii looks amazing!! Can I use butternut squash instead of pumpkin? My hubby doesn’t like pumpkin ❤️..
Hi Karen! I haven’t had a chance to try it myself, so if you do let me know!
What a tasty treat for fall! I am looking forward to enjoying these all season long! Yum!
Woohoo! So happy to hear it Beth!
I absolutely can’t wait to make these cookies! Bring on all the pumpkin recipes!
Yay! I know you’re really gonna love these cookies Lauren! .
I can use egg instead of flax eggs?? And how many day I can store it if I replace it??
Hi Moza! Yep, that swap should be fine. And storage time should be about the same. Happy baking!
My friend is vegan and I was looking for a really good dessert recipe to make her. Tried these and they were awesome. Thank you for sharing!
Oh that’s wonderful Eden! I’m so happy that she enjoyed them!
I love that these are made with oat flour, it contributes such a great flavor!
Agreed! The texture and flavor in these is amazing! .
These cookies are scrumptious! Thank you for the recipe!
Oh you’re so welcome Anna!
Can’t go wrong with chocolate and pumpkin this time of year!
No you definitely can’t Lisa! .
These cookies look so good and sounds so healthy too. Combination of Pumpkin is so very unique.
They most definitely are! Hope you get a chance to try them!
I love pumpkin and chocolate together! Can’t wait to try these vegan cookies!
Same here! It’s such a tasty combo! Especially this time of year. 🙂
Absolutely easy and delicious! Family loved them! Next time I’ll double the batch.
Yay! So happy to hear Holly! .
i’ve never thought of mixing pumpkin with chocolate chip cookies, but after reading this I’ll definitely be giving it a go!!
Oh you’ve got to try it out Chris! It’s seriously soo good! .
These cookies are delicious! Thank you for the great recipe!!
Woohoo! You’re so welcome Kristen!