Pumpkins everywhere... who's baking? 🎃


Happy Saturday!

Raise your hand if you’re seeing pumpkins at every market you go to this season!? 🎃

A farmers market is actually where my Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies started. I tried a cookie at the Proctor Farmers Market in Tacoma, WA and loved that combination enough to want to make my own.

Pumpkin, warm spices, chocolate chips… and that soft, almost cake-like texture. That became the recipe I shared on JavaCupcake.

So with pumpkins showing up everywhere again, I wanted to bring those cookies back to your kitchen. And since we’re already opening a can of pumpkin, I’m including my Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread, too.

Because you don’t need fresh pumpkin for either of these. Plain canned pumpkin puree works!

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

These are thick, fluffy pumpkin cookies with mini chocolate chips throughout. Especially good while they’re still a little warm and the chocolate is melty.

​Get the cookie recipe​

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread

If you’d rather bake a loaf, this one’s got chocolate chips mixed into the batter and scattered over the top. A slice with your Sunday morning coffee sounds pretty good to me.

​Get the pumpkin bread recipe​

That’s what I’m sending your way this weekend.
A little pumpkin baking inspiration for when you get home from the market. 💜

Happy Pumpkin Baking!

Betsy 💜
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