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Gluten-Free Spiced Chocolate Cookies with Pumpkin Icing

Gluten-free Spiced chocolate cookies with pumpkin icing are a sweet treat that is great for Fall, and are kid-friendly!

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Gluten-free Spiced chocolate cookies with pumpkin icing are a sweet treat that is great for Fall, and are kid-friendly!

I was doing so well with keeping up with my Vegan MoFo posts before this past week, but sometimes life has its own way of intervening. So, here I am with another recipe on the day before Halloween. I hope that everyone had a great weekend! I dressed up as an owl in a DIY costume, which I was inspired to do by Alpha Mom, and went to my dear friend Jade’s Halloween party. She did her own DIY costume and was a Dr. Seuss Truffula Tree! So awesome. 🙂

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Other than that, I can’t wait to carve some pumpkins tonight and go trick or treating tomorrow with my nephew and older sister. Obviously, I’m just going to be observing, not candy grabbing. 😉 I’ll have to share what pumpkin design I come up with; do you have any good ideas for one?

Gluten-free Spiced chocolate cookies with pumpkin icing are a sweet treat that is great for Fall, and are kid-friendly!

Gluten-free Spiced chocolate cookies with pumpkin icing are a sweet treat that is great for Fall, and are kid-friendly!

What I really want to share with you, though, is this gluten-free spiced chocolate cookie recipe! It has the coolest and pretty experimental icing I’ve made for something like this. These are not super chocolate-y cookies, so the addition of pumpkin spice makes them a little like gingerbread cookies, and no one was complaining! The icing has pumpkin puree in it to give it a slightly orange color, although carrot juice would also be great for this. It doesn’t fully harden, but this makes it go perfectly with the slightly soft cookie. They disappeared very quickly, I’ll tell you that much.

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Gluten-free Spiced Chocolate Cookies with Pumpkin Icing

Gluten-Free Spiced Chocolate Cookies with Pumpkin Icing

Spiced chocolate pumpkin cookies with pumpkin icing are delicious and great for Fall.

Prep Time 50 minutes
Cook Time 12 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 2 minutes

Ingredients

For Cookies

  • 1/2 C . Earth Balance Buttery Sticks
  • 1/2 C . + 2 tsp. Turbinado Sugar
  • 3 Tbsp . Plain Pumpkin Puree
  • 1 tsp . Vanilla Extract
  • 1 1/3 C . Almond Flour
  • 1/4 C . Cocoa Powder
  • 1 tsp . Pumpkin Spice Blend
  • 1/4 tsp . Salt

For Icing

  • 1 1/2 Tbsp . Earth Balance Buttery Stick
  • 2 Tbsp . Plain Pumpkin Puree
  • 3/4 C . Organic Powdered Sugar
  • Pinch of Salt

Instructions

  1. Using an electric mixer, whip the Earth Balance together with the sugar. Add the vanilla and pumpkin puree to the bowl and whip until incorporated.
  2. In another bowl, sift together the almond flour, cocoa powder, pumpkin spice and salt.
  3. Then, slowly add the dry mixture to the wet with the mixer until fully combined and easily formed into a large dough ball. You can keep it this way (for rolling out later) or roll it into a log that is 2" in diameter, then refrigerate it for 30 mins.
  4. Preheat oven to 350ºF, and either roll out the dough and use cookie cutters to make Halloween/Fall shapes, or slice 3/8" thick cookies from your round log.
  5. Place the cookies on a baking sheet and place in the oven for 10-12 mins.
  6. Take the cookies out of the oven and place them on a cooling rack and let them cool for 15-20 minutes
  7. In the mean time, using a small skillet, melt the Earth Balance over low-medium heat and stir the pumpkin into it.
  8. Slowly add the powdered sugar into the pan, along with the salt. Stir together until it becomes liquid (you may need to adjust the temperature for this). Let it cool just slightly, so that it doesn't become solid, and use a spoon to spread a thin layer of it on each cookie.
  9. Once you've done that, wait a couple of minutes for the icing to set and chow down!

Notes

Makes 15 smaller cookies, double the recipe if you want to make larger ones. 🙂

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

15

Serving Size:

1 grams

Amount Per Serving: Unsaturated Fat: 0g

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Gluten-free Spiced chocolate pumpkin cookies with pumpkin icing are a sweet treat that is great for Fall, and are kid-friendly!

My favorite way to test recipes is to have a picky eater try it out. Let me tell you, my nephew is the pickiest eater I’ve ever met! He’s getting better, but man, it’s pretty bad. So, with only a little convincing, I got him to try these out. I made sure to capture what I could of his reaction. His went in for his first bite, we all paused, and then another bite, and another. Then he said, “these are good!” Success!

These gluten-free spiced chocolate cookies were a great way to use some of the almond flour that I keep accumulating from making homemade almond milk! So, you know that I’ll be bringing more recipes with that in it your way, very soon. 🙂

Did you dress up this past weekend? Carved any pumpkins? Let’s hear it!

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Monica M

Tuesday 28th of October 2014

okay! i just made these and they were so delicious regardless:) but they didn't harden so i couldn't use cookie cutters:/

Monica M

Friday 17th of October 2014

okay ill let you know how they turn out:)

Monica M

Sunday 12th of October 2014

great post! would it be okay if i left out the cocoa powder? so they could be more orange looking:)

Jackie @ Vegan Yack Attack!

Wednesday 15th of October 2014

That should work! Maybe just add a little more almond flour?

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The Happy Pear (@thehappypear)

Thursday 1st of November 2012

These look amazing! Definitely not waiting for Halloween to come around again to make these!

Jackie @ Vegan Yack Attack!

Friday 2nd of November 2012

Shape them as maple leaves and no one will know the difference! ;)

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