Healthy 4 Ingredient Pumpkin Cookies

Pumpkin is a super great ingredient for doing your weekly meal preparations and when you have some leftover cooked pumpkin…… THIS is what you can do with it! Simply save 1 cup of cooked pumpkin to make some yummy pumpkin cookies!

What’s so healthy about this recipe?

Highly Nutritious and Particularly Rich in Vitamin A and C, which can help boost your immune system. Its supply of vitamin E, iron and folate may strengthen your immunity as well.Pumpkins’ high vitamin A, lutein and zeaxanthin contents may protect your eyes against sight loss, which becomes more common with age.^[1]https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/pumpkin#TOC_TITLE_HDR_5
One of the main ingredient of this recipe is rolled oats. Oats are a great source of carbohydrates, which gives you energy throughout the day.
This recipe uses sugar free maple syrup – instead of sugar for a natural sweetener.

How To Make Pumpkin Cookies

This recipe is so quick and easy to make that you can easily make a batch whilst cooking dinner or doing your weekend meal prep.

When cooking pumpkin for dinner, make sure you cook some extra so you have 1 cup of leftover pumpkin for biscuits.

Here’s what you’ll need. Oats, cooked pumpkin, sugar free maple syrup and optional choc chips.

Simply add pumpkin and oats to a bowl and mix together with a spoon.

Simply mix /stir the pumpkin and oats in bowl.

Add choc chips to the mixture if you wish to add these to your recipe. You can also leave them out and reduce a few calories.

Make 9 cookies (don’t worry about making them perfectly even, just focus on similar thickness).

Here’s what you’ll need:

1 Mixing Bowl
1 Wooden Spoon
1 Muffin Tray (this recipe makes approx. 9 biscuits)
Baking paper to line each muffin pan
Preheated oven 180 degrees Celcius

Ingredients:

1 cup leftover pumpkin baked in the oven (seeds and skin removed)
2 cups standard rolled oats (whole)
3 -4 tbsp sugar free maple syrup
1/4 cup chocolate chips of choice optional

Method:

Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celcius and line a baking tray with baking paper.
Add pumpkin to mixing bowl. Ensure your pumpkin is cooked thru and is soft enough to mash with a spoon or fork. For this recipe you’ll need 1 cup of mashed pumpkin. You can use either Kent or Butternut pumpkin, each having a slightly different flavour.
Add oats to mixing bowl and mix in with a spoon.
Add maple syrup and taste the mixture to determine if it is sweet enough for you, mix thoroughly.
Add chocolate chips now if you wish to do so.
With your hands (or with a spoon) create the shape of a cookie. You can do this by grabbing a chunk of the mixture and make it the shape of a ball. Then flatten the ball.
Line all 9 cookies on the tray and use a wet fork to make an imprint on the cookies.
Bake for 10 mins.
Take cookies out of the oven and let cool down before you remove them from the tray.
Note that the cookies are thick and moist (they’re not like a crispy choc chip cookie from the shop).

Final Thoughts

I believe that eating healthier should not be a mountain task.

Eating healthier should be a simple process, that you enjoy doing. With my easy and simple recipes, I believe that even a lazy person can start making a change to live a better life.

Ps. if you make a double batch of cookies you’ll have plenty for the week (and your colleagues at work!)