Sweet spooky Chocolate Pumpkin Sandwich Cookies! Rich, flourless chocolate cookies and an easy pumpkin spice filling. Add eyes for extra Halloween fun!
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We’re combining a lot of very necessary October things here:
- Pumpkin spice
- Edible
cutespooky treats - Really good flourless chocolate cookies
- Halloween film-making at it’s homemade decor finest
- SunButter! (applies to every other month too, of course)
So as you can see, this is quite the recipe.
Think: Chocolate cookies so better-than-a-brownie decadent they practically demand milk for dunking (and I’m not even a cookies + milk kinda person). A pumpkin spice SunButter filling that tastes almost caramel-y somehow, and is both easy and very repurpose-able (a.k.a. tastes really good on EVERYTHING). And edible googly eyes so your cookie monster-wiches can stare you down while you devour them…if that isn’t creepy I don’t know what is.
I couldn’t bring you this much festive fun alone, I had help.
The recipe concept itself came to be over a phone call brainstorm sesh with my good friend and cookie co-creator, Sonya. The video was shot and spookily edited by my talented friend, Dan. And the cookies themselves could not have happened without the delicious help of my friends at SunButter.
Proof that collaborative cookies are the best kind of cookies.
Don’t let the eyes or multiple components or utter deliciousness intimidate you, I promise this recipe is very un-fancy. One bowl cookie batter, four ingredient filling, no fancy equipment, just you and your spatula and your best attempt not to eat all the batter unbaked.
The cookies. I based the cookies off this reader favorite, but chocolate instead of chocolate chip and poofier too. They are vegan, paleo, and flourless, but thanks to SunButter the texture is still soft-baked-meets-crispy-edges perfect. These are not meant to be a healthy, eat for breakfast kind of cookie (if that’s what you’re after, try these!) They are a Whoa that is hella rich! How is there not butter and flour and refined sugar in it? kinda cookie.
SunButter is the key ingredient in this cookie batter, I used my favorite No Sugar Added variety. In addition to that we’ve got stuff like cacao powder, tapioca starch, coconut sugar, and salt (because it BIG time elevates all chocolate things).
The filling. This is actually embarrassingly easy – SunButter, canned pumpkin, pumpkin pie spice, and a tablespoon of maple syrup. Stir it up, and that’s it! Skip the syrup if your SunButter is sweetened. Add a spoonful of coconut oil to thin it out if necessary. And have a good friend nearby to take your spoon away so there’s some left by the time the cookies are cool.
The eyes. I cheated, bought these sprinkles, and picked out the eyeballs. But if you’re that person, that person that DIYs everything and makes the rest of us look lazy, you could make your own.
Do you need the eyes? Nah. Do you even need the filling? Nah. Do you need the cookies in your life as soon as possible? Umm YES.
So scroll onwards! To spooky video fun and a sweet Halloween treat…
WATCH HOW TO
SunButter Chocolate Pumpkin Sandwich Cookies
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 13 minutes
- Total Time: 33 minutes
- Yield: 18 cookies (9 sandwiches) 1x
- Category: cookies
- Method: baking
- Cuisine: american
Description
Sweet spooky Chocolate Pumpkin Sandwich Cookies! Rich, flourless chocolate cookies and an easy pumpkin spice filling. Add eyes for extra Halloween fun!
Ingredients
Cookie
- 1 cup (250g) No Sugar Added SunButter
- 1/2 cup (80g) coconut sugar
- 1/4 cup (30g) tapioca starch
- 1/4 cup (20g) cacao or cocoa powder
- 1/3 cup (80g) nondairy milk
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp salt
Filling
- 1/2 cup pumpkin puree
- 1/2 cup No Sugar Added SunButter
- 1 tbsp maple syrup
- 1 tbsp pumpkin pie spice
- Optional: 1 tbsp coconut oil (if it’s too thick)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350F.
- In a bowl, whisk together the SunButter, coconut sugar, milk, and vanilla until smooth.
- Add the tapioca starch, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt.
- Mix to form a thick dough.
- Scoop out 1 tablespoon of dough and roll into a ball. Arrange on a baking pan lined with parchment paper (leave room in between, they will spread so I only recommend 8-10 per pan). Repeat until all the dough is gone, you will need 2-3 pans/batches.
- Bake for 12-14 minutes at 350F.
- Let them cool for at least 5 minutes before moving to a cooling rack to cool completely.
- For the filling, stir together all the ingredients until smooth.
- Spoon a dollop of filling onto one cookie, top with another, and squish into a cookie sandwich. Add sprinkle eyes for extra Halloween vibes.
- Enjoy!
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 sandwich (2 cookies + filling)
- Calories: 291
- Sugar: 14g
- Fat: 20g
- Saturated Fat: 2g
- Carbohydrates: 23g
- Fiber: 5g
- Protein: 8g
Keywords: halloween, vegan, gluten-free, chocolate, healthy, paleo, flourless, baking, dessert
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Can Sunbutter be replaced by other seeds butter? It is not available in my region.
Sure! Other nut or seed butters will work too 🙂
This looks so good Natalie! Love the simplicity and uniqueness of this creation. Will definitely be trying these…
Lots of flavors altogether, but they are so so good😋 I hope you enjoy, Katie!
What an awesome video! I’m officially in the Halloween spirit now. Just got to find me some eyeball sprinkles 😉 I love that these don’t require any molding/shaping/food coloring/painting things. The quicker I can indulge in a chocolate cookie, the better. I love a great sandwich cookie, btw 😉
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Oh trust me, we went to more than one store on a NEED EYEBALL sprinkle mission😬 Very important stuff haha! Thanks for checking them out as always, Ashley❤️
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a cuter cookie for Halloween! Though I think I’d feel bad eating them since they have eyes and they’re so adorable!
Not gonna lie, I always bit the eyes off fist…it feels making them watch their own devouring🤔😂😂
Ahhhh I’m loving the spooky eyes Natalie hahaha!!! Such fun! I saw some 2 days ago at the grocery store and I thought of your cookies! I am loving the rich brownie decadent vibes going on here. They look so wonderfully rich and moist and Love that you added this pumpkin spice filling, so rich and decadent. I also REALLY LOVE how thick and sturdy the cookies themselves look, like, is it a brownie or a cookie?? In the best way possible. I’m just picturing eating one right now and love how super chocolatey and dark they look. Totally perfect for Halloween. I also love the spooky video, that is so cool!! The music was awesome. He is so talented at these videos!! Looks like you both are having such fun together!!
We had soooooo much fun shooting that one, it was a face hurts from laughing so much kinda day😊😊 But yes all spooky silliness aside, the cookies are SO good too. Ultra rich and one of those chocolate desserts I almost say is so decadent you can’t eat more than one of…but I still probably could lol😜 Mmm yes, pumpkin spice EVERYTHING. I hope you still have some more pumpkin goodness coming to us soon too🎃🤗
The cookies are currently in the oven but oh my goodness the filling is delicious. You are a genius!
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YAY!! Haha yes the filling is like a little mid-baking snack that I couldn’t stop sticking my spoon into too😆 I can’t wait for you to try the cookies too, lemme know how they turn out🤗
I adore sunbutter; so excited to try it with pumpkin!! 🙂
Ugh isn’t it SO GOOD😋 And I am loving it with pumpkin, gotta combine these two again soon!
That looks so delicious i am going to attempt to make it!
YAY! I think you will love them, lemme know how it goes🤗
I really wanted to love this recipe and I made it for our Halloween party, googly eyes and all- it looked super cute, just like the photos but upon tasting it I was left with an unpleasant taste in my mouth that wouldn’t go away. I don’t know what caused that but I hadn’t eaten anything else and I followed the recipe. I have no idea what ingredient would cause that but I ended up throwing them out right before my party.
Also the googly eyes melted a couple hours after I made them, so recommend putting them on right before serving if you make this recipe.
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Hmm was it a bitter metallic taste by chance? That can happen if you have too much baking soda. Bummer they didn’t work out for you🙁
For the tapioca starch, could I just put flour in for that?
I don’t recommend oat flour here, but you could use arrowroot or cornstarch instead!
Ok I’m waaay late to the party (pumpkin goodies in February – why not?) but WHAT A DELICIOUS PARTY THIS IS! I’d never heard of SunButter before, but your recipes have never failed me and so I went ahead and ordered some and hubba hubba this is one tasty snack! Sadly no googly eyes were involved in my version (aside from my own googly eyes staring at the oven waiting for the cookies to be ready). Now to find some more of your SunButter recipes to try!
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NEVER too late for pumpkin…or you’re just very early depending on how you look at it😂 But I am so happy you tried these and finally tried sunbutter!! I adore that stuff, so yes definitely stock up and put it in everything haha. This is my personal favorite sunbutter recipe if you want to give it a try next: https://www.feastingonfruit.com/sunbutter-soft-serve-ice-cream/ Hope the cookies came out perfect!
Disculpe, pero no me salieron las galletas! Se quedó demacrado grasosa la masa! Parece q le hubiera faltaba la harina..
Thanks for sharing your recipe. I made them for Halloween. The taste was great but my cookie dough came out runny so the cookies didn’t come out as fluffy as your photos. Still tasted great!
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The dough should be quite thick, perhaps your SunButter was especially liquidy? You can always add less milk and/or chill the dough before scooping and baking!