Pumpkin Oatmeal Chocolate Chunk Cookies

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Few things make you appreciate the passage of time like a baby. This time last year I was five months pregnant, just starting to feel the movement and weight of his little life inside me. Now that (not so) little is careering round our kitchen, shrieking with delight as he masters each new trick. Nino’s lived in the outside world almost as long as he spent in my tummy and October has well and truly arrived with its crisp, bright mornings and chill in the air. We’ve started putting on the heating in the nursery again, our families are discussing Christmas and as the nights draw in I’m seeking comfort in autumnal offerings of squash, spice and all things nice. 

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Someone once said to me that the days with a baby go slowly but the years go fast. I didn’t really understand what they meant, cocooned in those long, lazy newborn weeks as we waited for Nino’s operation date and time seemed to stand still, but now I do. Two thirds of a year have passed, my baby is starting to look more like a little boy and I can’t quite imagine what life was like without him. Last week I found out that the gorgeous, giggly baby next to Nino in our hospital ward is no longer with us and the fragility of life and importance of appreciating each moment really hit home. I can’t begin to imagine how his parents feel, but that baby is in my heart and head as I hold my boy that little bit tighter.

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It’s hard to follow news like that with something as frivolous as cookies, but baking is one way I know to show I care in times where words won’t do. These pumpkin oatmeal chocolate chunk cookies are a morsel of comfort on the coldest of days, warm with spice and rich with the roasted flesh of autumn’s signature orange offering. The chocolate chunks trickle out in molten puddles if you eat them straight from the oven, and if such a thing as an edible hug exists, then these would be it.

I made these cookies as part of Sara from Cake Over Steak‘s Virtual Pumpkin Party (check out last year’s here). There are a whole load of food bloggers sharing the pumpkin love #virtualpumpkinparty so if you’re in need of some autumnal inspiration, check out the links below:

Cake Over Steak • Quick Pumpkin and Kale Risotto + Arancini
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Vegetarian Ventures • Smoky Pumpkin & Black Sesame Hummus
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Two Red Bowls • Pumpkin & Maple Caramel Baked French Toast
Wallflower Kitchen • Mini Pumpkin & Cinnamon Sugar Donuts
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Nommable • Pumpkin Biscuits with Mushroom Thyme Gravy
With Food + Love • Cinnamon Raisin Pumpkin Seed Bread
Hortus • Creamy Roasted Squash Soup + Pumpkin Risotto
Sevengrams • Vegan Pumpkin Pie Ice Cream
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Harvest and Honey • Truffled Pumpkin Papardelle Alfredo with Frizzled Sage
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Hey Modest Marce • Mascarpone Pumpkin Pie
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SweetPhi • Pumpkin Chili Biscuit Bake
Warm Vanilla Sugar • Buttermilk Pumpkin Doughnuts
Mademoiselle Poirot • Cinnamon-Pumpkin Mousse on Honey Panna Cotta topped with Hazelnut Brittle
Heart of a Baker • Pumpkin Sticky Buns with Vanilla Bean Frosting
Flourishing Foodie • Massaman Curry with Pumpkin and Chickpeas
Ginger & Toasted Sesame • Pumpkin Jeon
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Will Frolic for Food • Pumpkin Kale Patties with Coconut Cilantro Rice
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Vermilion Roots • Sweet Rice Dumplings with Pumpkin
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The Brick Kitchen • Pumpkin, Pecan & White Chocolate Ice Cream Sandwiches
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Cookie Dough and Oven Mitt • Pumpkin Pie Dip
Fig+Bleu • Pumpkin Granola
The Speckled Palate • Pumpkin Caramel Cream Cheese Swirl Blondies
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Live Eat Learn • Pumpkin Gingerbread Hot Cocoa

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Pumpkin Oatmeal Chocolate Chunk Cookies
 
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The perfect autumn cookie, warm with spice and rich with pumpkin and dark chocolate chunks. This recipe is barely adapted from The Vegetable Butcher by Cara Mangini, so I've written it up as it appears in the book, using American cups.
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Recipe type: Baking
Serves: 48 cookies
Ingredients
  • 1 stick unsalted butter, room temperature
  • ¾ cup light brown muscovado sugar
  • ¾ cup granulated sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • pureed flesh from one medium butternut squash, about 1½ cups
  • 1½ cups plain white flour
  • 1 tbsp bicarbonate of soda
  • 2 tsp ground cinnamon
  • ½ tsp ground nutmeg
  • ½ tsp ground allspice
  • large pinch sea salt
  • 3 cups jumbo rolled oats
  • ¾ cup dark chocolate, coarsely chopped
  • ¾ cup milk chocolate, coarsely chopped
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F/175 degrees C. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
  2. In a large bowl, beat together the butter and sugar on medium speed until well combined, about 5 minutes. Add the eggs one at a time until just incorporated, then add the vanilla and pumpkin puree and beat until combined, about 30 seconds more.
  3. In a separate large bowl, whisk together the flour, bicarbonate of soda, spices and salt. Add this mixture to the butter mixture, beating until just combined, then stir in the oats and chocolate chunks.
  4. Scoop heaped tablespoons of the wet dough onto the prepared baking sheets, leaving an inch between each ball as they will spread as they bake. Bake for 15 - 17 minutes or until golden brown, 20 minutes if you like a crisper cookie. Allow to cool on the trays for 10 minutes then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
  5. Cookies will keep in an airtight container for up to 3 days, or in the freezer for up to 6 months.

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