Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies with Dried Cranberries & Chocolate Chips
Updated March 26, 2019
It’s been awhile since I have posted a pumpkin recipe. I thought I would give you all a break from my pumpkin madness. I went kind of crazy with the pumpkin this year:) I made these Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies with Dried Cranberries & Chocolate Chips a few weeks ago and have been waiting impatiently to share the recipe. I couldn’t wait any longer because these cookies are super scrumptious and a good recipe is meant for sharing.
These cookies have all of my favorite ingredients-pumpkin, oatmeal, Fall spices, dried cranberries, and chocolate chips. Of course I love these cookies right out of the oven, who doesn’t like a freshly baked cookie? But my favorite way to enjoy these cookies is right out of the freezer. I put a bag of cookies in the back of our freezer, in hopes that I would forget they were there. Well, my cookie cravings got the best of me and I broke into the bag of frozen Pumpkin Oatmeal cookies. Big mistake because now I am addicted to them. My bag is running low and it will be a sad day when they are gone.
Hopefully, the cookies will last until Thanksgiving because I know I am baking a batch for “Turkey Day.” I know Thanksgiving dessert is usually all about the pie, but not at our house. Sure, we have pie, but we also have cookies. A holiday celebration is not complete without cookies and I am sure these Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies with Dried Cranberries and Chocolate Chips will get gobbled up in no time. If they don’t, fine by me, I will put the leftovers in the freezer for my own secret stash:)
If you like these pumpkin cookies, you might also like:
- Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Pumpkin Cinnamon Cookies
- Pumpkin Bread
- Pumpkin Bundt Cake
- Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins
- Pumpkin Sheet Cake
Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies with Dried Cranberries & Chocolate Chips
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/8 teaspoon all ground allspice
- 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 cup unsalted butter at room temperature
- 1 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup pure pumpkin puree
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cups old-fashioned oats
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 cup dried cranberries
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat. Set aside.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, allspice, cloves, and salt. Set dry ingredients aside.
- In a large mixer bowl, beat butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar until light and fluffy. Add pumpkin, egg, and vanilla extract. Beat until combined. Gradually add flour mixture and mix until ingredients are incorporated.
- Stir in oats, chocolate chips, and dried cranberries. Drop cookie dough by rounded tablespoons onto prepared baking sheet.
- Bake cookies for about 12 minutes or until cookies are lightly browned. Cool on baking sheets for 2 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool completely.
Have you tried this recipe?
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Perfect combination of flavours!
These cookies look wonderful. And I just bought a pack of dried cranberries and have dark choc chips in the house, as well as pumpkin puree so I guess this recipe is just calling me 🙂
Oh my! This is thanksgiving party in your mouth!!
So tempting! A perfect combination of flavors.
Cheers,
Rosa
Another awesome cookie recipe! Yum!
These look wonderful. Cranberries in cookies, mmmmm good!
And I love how you said “we” added a pinterest button. If I asked my husband ANYTHING that had to do with my blog, he’d look at me like I had 7 heads. That’s so cool you guys are a tag team 🙂
these sound so good! i love pumpkin stuff and oatmeal cookies, it just makes sense to combine the two!
I agree about having cookies at Thanksgiving…I always bake up a few varieties for ours! These look perfect, love all the Fall Flavors 🙂
Yum, Maria!! I’ll just keep rotating your sweets in between mine each week, ok? 🙂
thank you, maria!! i was searching for a pumpkin cookie without frosting the other day, and couldn’t find anything. this is perfect:)
Oh good! Glad I could help out:)
Why aren’t we neighbors?
I wish:)
This sounds divine! I love the combination of dried cranberries & chocolate chips! I have a party to go to tonight & was trying to think of a dessert to make & I think you just helped me with my decision!! 🙂 thanks!
Perfection, that is all 🙂 Have a great day girl!!
goodness, there are a lot of yummy things in this cookie!
Oats + pumpkin + cranberries + chocolate. Yes please!
Totally trying these out! They sound amazing!
i may just have to mozy on up there for Thanksgiving to get some of these cookies! love the mix dried cranberries and chocolate chips 🙂
These look great! How true that these have all the best of fall!
Looks delicious! I just happen to have everything on hand to make these 🙂
This combination of flavors seems so simple… but I dont think I have EVER had a pumpkin cookie with cranberries!! Brilliance from you.. as always!
I LOVE craisins!! They’re so awesome in cookies and really any baked good.
I’m happy to see more pumpkin recipes! 🙂 I made the pumpkin gingersnaps you posted – delicious!
As a dedicated “cookie monster” these are making my mouth water! Such a fantastic combination of delicious flavors!
your photos are so pretty! i know i would love these cookies with the cranberries but i’m a little hesitant about pumpkin & chocolate. i’ve never had that combination before. only one way to find out 🙂 happy friday!
These sound wonderful, Maria. I’m sure your family will love to see these sitting alongside the pies at Thanksgiving.
OMG could you put any more in there 🙂 I would love to try these – i have some pumpkin left over hmmm. . .being pregnant i can’t choose what to make so many choice and everything looks good these days :).
love these, cranberry and chocolate are great together.
Yay! I’ve been looking for new pumpkin recipes. I can’t wait to make these. I’m also super curious about trying them from the freezer. I love a warm cookie. Don’t they get super hard when they’re cold??
They harden, but they won’t break your teeth:) They are not that hard:) Give them a try!
I think I’ll make these tonight. And I think I’ll eat them all tonight too 🙂
I love pumpkin chocolate chip cookies! These look fairly wholesome and extremely delicious 🙂
I love that these are a little different than the normal “puffy” pumpkin cookies. Definitely want to try these!
All my favorite flavors rolled into one! Yum!
There is so much goodness in this cookie!
I love everything this cookie as to offer!
These look delicious, I love the use of cranberries in it!!
just last week i was thinking about adding pumpkin to oatmeal cookies for a healthy snack. great idea Maria!
What you call pumpkin madness, I call pumpkin heaven. I’ve been loving all these recipes!
I can’t wait to make these yummo looking cookies. My youngest son is a cooking fiend so he will be super excited. A great lunchbox idea too …
could i add applesauce to the cookie dough to keep from getting hard, i like a soft cookie
The cookies are already really soft due to the pumpkin. You can substitute some applesauce for the butter too if you would like.
Nothing like the smell of warm cookies coming out of the oven and I would bet these were extra special!
These look amazing! I love the addition of oatmeal and of course chocolate chips! And I am glad that you added the “Pin It” button for easy pinning!
I so want to try these but I don’t know if I can bring myself to do chocolate with pumpkin…I know, chocolate makes everything better, but…. Maybe I’ll just do walnuts instead!
I love all of your fall recipes, thanks for some good ideas 🙂
love all your pumpkin madness – these cookies take it over the top! I am going to use dark chocolate instead of semi sweet. Dark chocolate and pumpkin are a match made in heaven IMHO. Thank You Maria for all the great new pumpkin (and other) recipes. and thanks for the “Pin It” button!
I love all the goodies you squeezed in these – they look soo good 🙂
Yum! You are the queen of yummy-but-healthy treats, Maria. These looks so comforting and delicious. xo
I love all of these ingredients….what a great combo….yum!
These are delicious! One of my favorite kinds of cookies is oatmeal, craisin, chocolate chip, and love all things pumpkin, so these are perfect-plus now, my favorite cookie has a vegetable in it, so they’re good for me. 😉 Oh and I got over 4 dozen large cookies, which is great, usually I never seem to make the amount a recipe says it will make. 🙂 I’ve been making your pumpkin donut holes for people and we all love them. Thank you for the wonderful recipes!
You are welcome! Glad you are enjoying our recipes!
I made these for a work event and they were a hit! I am also in Salt Lake City on a work trip now. It is my first time to the city. It is beautiful! I’ve really enjoyed my stay here.
These were FANTASTIC! All of my friends loved them and begged for the recipe. I accidentally only put a cup of brown sugar in and they were delicious nonetheless! I will definitely be making these again.
These cookies sound so good! I bet they’ll be perfect for Thanksgiving snacks since we have a dinner late in the afternoon!
OH! All my favorites, wrapped up in your lovely cookie! Many thanks!
I just made these cookies and they are excellent, especially the blend of spices. I did add a bit more cinnamon, just because we are quite fond of cinnamon. My husband can’t have chocolate so I added a few more cranberries as well as some chopped pecans…and I did cut back on the granulated sugar.
Others should not worry about these cookies getting really hard when they cool…at least mine certainly have not. I think the key is to follow the baking directions closely…taking the cookies out when lightly browned and letting them sit on the cookie sheets on the counter for 2 minutes prior to transferring them to a wire rack to cool. I have other recipes with similar instructions and they are for chewy cookies as well.
Thx for a great recipe.
OOOO yum. Yes, Please!
those sound delightful, Maria!
{waving} it’s been a while! 🙂
these are so delicious! i can’t stop eating them… 🙂
I made these cookies this afternoon. I love the flavor! They turned out a little cake-like though. Is that the way they are supposed to be or did I do something wrong?
The cookies are a little cakey because of the pumpkin-it makes the cookies very moist.
I made these cookies yesterday. The flavor was great! They turned out a little cake-like though. Is this the texture of the cookie or did something go wrong? I didn’t change anything in the recipe.
I made these for Thanksgiving but must have done something wrong. Your’s look great in the photo and I really wanted a nice thick cookie. My cookies went totally flat and fell apart when I tried to pick them up. They were really sticky and stuck together when I put them on a plate. I left out the cranberries but that was the only thing I changed in the recipe. Any idea why mine turned out wrong? The flavor was good but they just weren’t what I hoped they would be.
I am not sure what went wrong because the cookies are very thick and moist, not think at all. Sorry you had trouble!
I knew these would be good, but I never expected the complexity of flavour these cookies provide. My guests were speechless in delight. Maria, you have outdone yourself!
So happy the cookies were a hit. They are one of my new favorites:)
I made these tonight and the came out really cake like. Extremely soft however it was a great flavor I just think I should either up the amount of flour or decrease the pumpkin puree. Any suggestions?
Thanks!
The cookies have a somewhat cake like texture because the pumpkin is so moist. You can decrease the pumpkin if you do not like that texture.
Just tried these cookies tonight courtesy of your brother’s wife and loved them! They directed me to your blog after I told them of my cookie baking woes here in Colorado. We moved from IL, so quite an altitude difference. Can’t wait to try more of your recipes!
Thanks for visiting Amy! I hope you have baking success in CO!
Stumbledupon this today. LOVED them. Sooo tasty…
Could you substitute pumpkin pie spice for all or some of the spices? I don’t think I have 1-2 spices.
Yes, you can use pumpkin pie spice!
Hi! I made these cookies after I found the recipe on Google. I love them! I replaced the cranberries with more chocolate chips, but other than that I followed the recipe and I think they’re fantastic. I love oatmeal cookies but always feel like they’re missing a flavor component, and I feel like this fixes it perfectly. Thanks so much, I’m definitely making these all the time, especially this fall. I’ll put some in the freezer too and I’ll try them that way. I also added the recipe to my Pinterest.
Thanks for the pin! Glad you enjoyed the cookies!
Maria, these cookies are so delicious! I love how the flavors blend together. I’ll definitely make them again 🙂
I’m pumpkin crazy, and I’ve tried MANY pumpkin cookie recipes. This one is, by far, the BEST! Very excited to add this to our repertoire 🙂
Just made these with leftover pumpkin purée. What a fabulous way to welcome fall! They are delicious and my house smells phenomenal! Will be using your trick and freezing some for later. Thanks for sharing!
Can I sub oil for the butter?
Thanks!
Made these yesterday! Gave them to my daughter and her Xc team. They were a hit! I made them with mini-chocolate chips instead.
These look amazing!!! Thanks for sharing!!!
Just made these cookies and they are delicious. Thanks so much for the recipe. Next time, I think I’ll try them with dried cherries and dark chocolate. But, they are great exactly as the recipe is written.
Glad you liked the cookies!
I have to say these are an excellent cookie!!! 5 out of 5 stars…my friends all request them, repeatedly. Thanks
OMG I have made these cookies twice in the last year with the second time being tonight. They are really good but both times mine came out super gooey. I couldn’t figure out why they were like that because they look nothing like the picture. So I and here to read the comments to see if anyone else was having this problem only to realize as I was passing the ingredients that it says 1 cup of pumpkin! I thought and read it both times as 1 can!!!! Hahaha well now I know next time to only use 1 cup and they will probably look more like the pictures you have. I honestly don’t know how I read it that way both times almost a year apart! Oh well they were still yummy
I made these cookies last week and they were delicious!! These are a soft cookie with lots of flavor. Everybody loved them. These are my new favorite fall cookie. Thanks for the recipe.
Made these today. Really, really, good!
Mine came out puffy. I wonder what I did wrong :/
This recipe was fantastic. I just added 1/2 tablespoon of pumpkin pie spice for all of the spices and added 1/2 tsp more cinnamon.
I just completed 4 sheets of cookies and OH MY!!!! They are fantastic. “Fall in a cookie” my wife says. Thank you
I keep making these, year after year. They taste more complex than they are to make. Thanks!
i was so excited about these cookies, and i followed the recipe exactly, but there was definitely something missing. They were so mushy. I feel as if more dry ingredients are needed….thoughts? My cookies look nothing like your crunchy-looking cookies.
Followed direction to a T. Turned out mushie
This cookie recipe is awasome . just what our family needed this time of year . . second time i made them i added walnunts. , and coconut . that was yummy too .Happy Fall .
New to your website . . . where is the nutritional information for the pumpkin cookies. Made over the weekend and was informed that they are very good, but we need the nutritional information.
Thank you
I am interest in ordering these cookies can u tell me how they are delicious it’s the cookie that have butterscotch and dried cranberries can you tell me how to order if I can thanks in advance
These cookies are perfect! I did not have dried cranberries, but otherwise followed the recipe to the letter. My cooking time was a bit longer as is typical with my oven. The spices are perfect and the texture is perfect–not too cakey like some pumpkin cookies can be. I’ve had great success with other recipes from your blog, and this one might be the best yet. I did try a second batch with butterscotch chips instead of chocolate chips, and I think I might be in love!
Thanks for all of the great recipes!!
These just came out of the oven. They are AMAZING! Everything you want in a fall cookie.
I make these cookies all the time and they’re absolutely amazing!! Such a great recipe.
I have a lot left over and am wondering how you freeze and thaw them to taste well.
Thanks!
You can freeze them. Let them cool and place in a freezer bag or freezer container. Eat frozen or thaw before serving.
My dough seemed very wet. But I gave it a try anyways. Delicious taste! (I upped all the spices. And can JUST taste them. If stayed at the recipe level, I feel it would just be for aromatic purposes. I doubled all except nutmeg.)
If you make really big spoonfuls, the baking time will be longer. Smaller “tablespoonfuls” bake a bit more closer to 12 minutes. Although in my oven I upped the time to 13 minutes.
When thr cookies come out, they will still look wet. Shouldn’t be SUPER wet, just like a normal “gooey/underbaked a bit chocolate chip cookie” (if you want pictures, try to find a website that posts process pictures. They are really helpful!)
Then leave on the tray to continue firming up a bit… and then as they cool they will be firmer still. If still RAW liquid after sitting on the tray… go ahead and bake for a few more minutes.
** process photos for this recipe would be very helpful since the dough is so wet – unlike regular cookies**
Overall, I really like the taste and soft texture of the cookie.
Also, I will try “soaking” the oats in the pumpkin for sometime to absorb some moisture/soften up before baking.
And also just letting the dough sit for 15-30 minutes helps with that too.