Pumpkin Pecan Chocolate Chip Cookies

10/18/2012

It's pumpkin madness! I've made so many pumpkin recipe lately that I think my family might actually be starting to turn orange. Ben actually suggested that I may have replaced my obsession over watermelon with an obsession over pumpkin. (What?)

Want to know why I love pumpkin so much? It's nutritious AND delicious. Check out these nutritional facts about 1/2 cup of pureed pumpkin:
50 calories
0 fat
0 cholesterol
3 grams of fiber
2 grams of protein
10 grams of sodium
280% Vitamin A
8% Vitamin C
4% Calcium
4% Iron

My latest pumpkin creation came from one of my favorite blogs - bakerella. She is so talented and it took literally seconds for me to decide to make these cookies after I saw them on her blog. She has them pictured on her blog with maple brown butter frosting and they look amazing. I had every intention of recreating her exact recipe but to be perfectly honest, they were so good without the frosting that I decided just to leave it off. (If you feel like your cookies are missing out on frosting - you can check out her website for her recipe.)

Pumpkin Pecan Chocolate Chunk Cookies
2 1/4 cup flour
2 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
3/4 teaspoons salt
3 tsp pumpkin pie spice
3/4 cup butter, room temperature
1 1/4 cup light brown sugar
1 cup sugar
2 tsp vanilla
2 eggs
1 cup canned pumpkin
1 cup chopped pecans
1 1/2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chunks

Whisk together flour, baking powder and pumpkin pie spice. Set aside.

Cream butter. Add both sugars and beat until light and fluffy.