Pumpkin Patch Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Indulge in the ultimate chocolate lover’s dream with recipe for homemade dark chocolate chunk cookies. These pumpkin patch chocolate chunk cookies are great for Halloween and other occasions!
Are you ready to indulge in a deliciously festive treat? Look no further than these Pumpkin Patch Chocolate Chunk Cookies! With their rich, melt-in-your-mouth chocolate chunks and delightful decorations of colorful sprinkles and adorable pumpkin candies, these cookies are the perfect addition to any autumn gathering or Halloween celebration. Get ready to impress your friends and family with this decadent dark chocolate cookie recipe that can be made all year long!
Pumpkin Patch Chocolate Chunk Cookies Recipe
Texture: soft cookies.
Taste: chocolaty flavored treat.
Simplicity: easy to make, combine ingredients and bake!
Meal Type: dessert, back to school, Halloween.
Ingredients Needed
- All-Purpose Flour – all-purpose flour would be the best for this recipe.
- Cacao Powder – cacao powder tends to have a more intense and bitter chocolate flavor.
- Baking Soda – needed as leaving agent.
- Unsalted Butter – butter needs to be softened, room temperature.
- Sugar – granulated white sugar or cane sugar can be used.
- Egg – needed to bind all ingredients.
- Chocolate – store-bought dark chocolate chunks or bark cut into small pieces.
- Sprinkles – to decorate cookies.
- Pumpkin Candies – for fall theme cookies use pumpkin candies.
How to make Chocolate Chunk Cookies
- (Check printable recipe below). The process of making these cookies is fairly simple. First you will need to combine all-purpose flour, cacao powder and baking soda, set aside.
- Next you can prepare the wet ingredients. Mix sugar with butter, add egg and mix very well.
- Add yummy chocolate chunks. Form the balls, flatten. Add lots of sprinkles.
- Bake for 10 minutes at 350 F.
Dark Chocolate Chunk Cookies Tips
They are decorated especially for Halloween but you can make them all year long. Basically omit pumpkin candies and use another color of sprinkles. Or just don’t use sprinkles and make only chocolaty flavored cookies. Make them for a birthday, after school treat, Christmas etc. Possibilities are endless.
- I recommend using cacao powder since it will give more intense chocolate flavor.
- Once you make a ball with the dough, flatten cookies before adding sprinkles and chocolate chunks.
- Don’t over bake the cookies. They will be still soft once removed from oven.
- SUBSTITUTIONS & VARIATIONS: generally cocoa powder can be used as a substitute for the cacao powder, but be aware that the flavor may vary slightly. You can substitute chocolate chips for chocolate chunks in this recipe.
Dark Chocolate Cookies FAQ’s
Chocolate chip cookies have smaller, uniform chips that evenly distribute throughout the dough, while chocolate chunk cookies feature larger, irregular pieces of chocolate that create a more varied chocolaty experience.
Yes, chocolate chunks can melt in cookies, but the way they melt is different from smaller chocolate chips. Chocolate chunks might melt partially.
Yes, just omit sprinkles and candies, you will have only dark chocolate chunk cookies. You can also use different sprinkles or different candies, it depends on the occasion.
Yes, these cookies are soft, just don’t bake them too long.
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Pumpkin Patch Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 Tbsp. cacao powder
- 1/2 tsp. baking soda
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter room temperature
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg room temperature
- 3.5 oz. chocolate chunks dark or chocolate bark cut into chunks
- 1 Tbsp. sprinkles
- 14 pumpkin candies
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F. Prepare baking sheet with silpat or parchment paper.
- In a large bowl combine flour, cacao powder and baking soda. Set aside.1 cup all-purpose flour, 2 Tbsp. cacao powder, 1/2 tsp. baking soda
- In a large bowl mix with electric mixer butter and sugar. Add egg and mix.1/2 cup unsalted butter, 1/2 cup granulated sugar, 1 egg
- Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients and mix well on low speed.
- Form approximately 12 balls, place on baking sheet and flatten gently with hand.
- Add chocolate chunks on top, add sprinkles.3.5 oz. chocolate chunks, 1 Tbsp. sprinkles
- Bake for 10 minutes.
- Remove from oven and leave it for 10 minutes before transferring on the cooling rack.
- To add pumpkin candies on top, melt few pieces of chocolate. Add a drop to the bottom of the pumpkin candy and place on the cookie.14 pumpkin candies
Equipment needed
Notes
- I recommend using cacao powder since it will give more intense chocolate flavor.
- Once you make a ball with the dough, flatten cookies before adding sprinkles and chocolate chunks.
- Don’t over bake the cookies. They will be still soft once removed from oven.
- SUBSTITUTIONS & VARIATIONS: generally cocoa powder can be used as a substitute for the cacao powder, but be aware that the flavor may vary slightly. Chocolate chips can be substituted for chocolate chunks in this recipe.
Nutrition
Update Notes: The post was originally published in October 24, 2017, On October, 2023 it was updated with tips.
