Pumpkin 🎃 Sourdough Chocolate Chip Cookies 🍪: A Fall Treat with a Twist

Pumpkin sourdough chocolate chip cookies combine the best of seasonal and sourdough baking, delivering a cookie that’s soft, chewy, and irresistibly flavorful. This creative recipe is the perfect way to use sourdough discard while embracing autumn’s favorite ingredient: pumpkin.

The addition of pumpkin purée brings moisture and a subtle earthy sweetness to the cookies, creating a tender texture that melts in your mouth. The sourdough discard adds a tangy undertone, balancing the sweetness of the chocolate chips and deepening the overall flavor profile. Together, they create a cookie that’s comforting yet unexpected—a true celebration of fall flavors.

Warm spices like cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves elevate the pumpkin, infusing each bite with the cozy essence of autumn. Generous amounts of gooey chocolate chips provide pockets of indulgence, ensuring every cookie is as satisfying as it is unique.

These cookies are easy to whip up and a great way to use up sourdough starter. Whether paired with a hot cup of tea or shared at a fall gathering, they’re sure to become a seasonal favorite. Pumpkin sourdough chocolate chip cookies are proof that innovation in the kitchen can lead to delightful results. 🍂✨

Ingredients:
1 small pumpkin, washed and dried!
340 g all purpose flour 
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt 

230 g butter
100 g sugar
200 g brown sugar 
140 g fresh pumpkin (from the pumpkin you will roast!)
14 g vanilla 
120 g sourdough discard 

1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg 
1/4 tsp ground cloves