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Pumpkin breakfast cookies make a delicious and healthy breakfast. Made with oats, pumpkin purée, and peanut butter, they are gluten-free, vegan, and totally delicious!

Learn how you can make pumpkin cookies using just one bowl for the easiest, tastiest, and most nutritious breakfast!

a stack of pumpkin breakfast cookies on a cooling rack

Pumpkin Peanut Butter Breakfast Cookies

Laura fuentes holding a skillet of food standing in front of a blue door

While there is nothing wrong with enjoying a traditional chocolate chip cookie or two, I want something with more nutritional value for breakfast, and I’m sure you do too. These pumpkin breakfast cookies are a delicious and healthy fall breakfast that makes everyone get out of bed fast.

Along with the carrot cake cookies and chocolate peanut butter cookies, these cookies are soft, chewy, tasty, and easy to make ahead with wholesome ingredients. Plus, the batter can be eaten by the spoonful because this recipe is eggless!

Ingredients

To make this breakfast cookie recipe healthy, you’ll need pumpkin purée for moisture, peanut butter (or one of these nut-free alternatives) to keep the cookies together, honey (or maple syrup), vanilla, quick oats, pumpkin pie spice, and baking powder (while the cookies don't expand, it adds a slightly fluffy texture).

How to Make Pumpkin Breakfast Cookies

The video in the recipe card shows you how easily these cookies come together, but first, check out the steps:

Make the dough.
Combine pumpkin purée, peanut butter, honey, and vanilla in a bowl. Then, add the oats, pumpkin pie spice, and baking powder. Stir to combine.
Shape the cookies.
Scoop the dough and shape each one with your hands. Keep in mind that these cookies don't expand in the oven.

left: pumpkin cookie dough in a bowl; right: dough shaped into cookies in a lined baking sheet

Bake.
Bake the cookies in a preheated oven for 13 to 15 minutes. Allow them to cool down before serving.

four pumpkin breakfast cookies on a cooling rack

There are many healthy ways to enjoy pumpkin cookies for breakfast. Some nutritious ingredients you can add are raisins, blueberries, chocolate and banana, chocolate chips, muesli, pecans, cinnamon, or vanilla protein and seeds.

More Breakfast Ideas with Pumpkin

I LOVE enjoying fall flavors all year round, so I also bake this epic pumpkin bread with coconut flour, and I serve the easiest breakfast ever: pumpkin pie overnight oats. Of course, I have a mouth-watering pumpkin pancake recipe and this delicious pumpkin French toast.

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Healthy Pumpkin Pie Breakfast Cookies

small stack of pumpkin breakfast cookies

Servings: 15 cookies

Prep Time: 10

Cook Time: 13

Total Time: 23

Pumpkin breakfast cookies make a delicious and healthy breakfast. Made with oats, pumpkin purée, and peanut butter, they are gluten-free, vegan, and totally delicious!

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Watch how it’s made:

Ingredients

½ cup pumpkin puree
½ cup natural peanut butter, or nut free
¼ cup honey
1 tablespoon vanilla
1 ¼ cup quick oats
2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
½ teaspoon baking powder

Instructions

Prep:

Preheat the oven to 350F. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.

Make the cookie dough:

In a large bowl, stir together the pumpkin, peanut butter, honey, and vanilla.
To the pumpkin mixture, add the oats, pumpkin pie spice, and baking powder.
Stir the oat mixture into the pumpkin mixture until combined.
Using a cookie scooper, drop mounds of dough 2 inches apart on the prepared cookie sheets. Using your hands, flatten and spread each mound of dough into a cookie shape.