Pumpkin Drop Cookies
Easy Family Baking - Drop cookies are, as the name suggests, cookies that are formed by dropping spoonfuls of dough onto a baking tray to bake. They are soft and cake-like in texture and perfect to make with children at home.
Servings: 8 large cookies
Equipment
- Mixing Bowl
- Sieve
- Baking tray
Ingredients
- 80 g unsalted butter softened
- 45 g caster sugar
- 80 g light brown sugar
- 1 large egg lightly beaten
- 100 g pumpkin grated
- 170 g plain flour
- 1/4 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 100 g dark chocolate chunks
- 1 tsp ground nutmeg or ground cinnamon
- 1 pinch salt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 200C/180C fan
- Add the butter and sugars to a mixing bowl and beat until light and creamy45 g caster sugar, 80 g light brown sugar, 80 g unsalted butter
- Slowly add the egg and continue to mix1 large egg
- Sieve the flour into the mixing bowl and add the grated pumpkin, bicarbonate of soda, dark chocolate, salt and nutmeg or cinnamon100 g pumpkin, 170 g plain flour, 1/4 tsp bicarbonate of soda, 100 g dark chocolate chunks, 1 pinch salt, 1 tsp ground nutmeg or ground cinnamon
- Gently mix all the ingredients together
- As the name suggests, drop a spoonful of cookie dough onto a lined baking tray, leaving space between each cookie
- Bake for 10 minutes, then carefully remove from the oven and allow to rest on the tray for 5 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack
- Once cooled, serve with a big glass of milk or hot cup of tea. The perfect mid-afternoon snack!