Pumpkin Oatmeal Candy Bar Cookies

Here’s a recipe for Pumpkin Oatmeal Candy Bar Cookies. These are the best pumpkin cookies with a melted chocolate bar on top!

These cookies are a softer, pumpkin-flavored sort of oatmeal cookie, topped with a chocolate bar while still warm to melt and act as immediate frosting. It’s a great combination. And, thinking ahead, this is a good way to use up leftover Halloween candy (should you have any!)

Ingredients Needed:

• all purpose flour
• whole wheat flour
• pumpkin pie spice
• baking powder
• kosher salt
• unsalted butter
• granulated white sugar
• dark brown sugar
• egg
• vanilla extract
• unsweetened pumpkin puree
• old fashioned rolled oats
• miniature chocolate chips
• small chocolate candy bars

How to make Pumpkin Oatmeal Candy Bar Cookies:

The complete, printable recipe is at the end of this post.

1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Line baking sheets with parchment paper or silpat mats.
2. In a medium bowl, whisk together the flours, spice, salt and baking soda.
3. In a large bowl, use an electric mixer to combine the butter and sugar. Mix on medium speed until light and fluffy. Reduce the speed to low and add the egg and vanilla. Mix in the pumpkin puree. Add the flour mixture and mix until it is incorporated. Set aside the mixer and stir in the oats and chocolate chips.
4. Use a cookie scoop (or drop by heaping tablespoonfuls) to scoop onto the prepared baking sheets. Space the cookies about 2 inches apart (12 on a sheet should work perfectly). Bake 9 to 11 minutes, or until the cookies are set and golden brown. 

Remove the baking sheets from the oven and immediately place a candy bar on top of each cookie. Let them cool for about 10 minutes on the baking sheets, then remove them to a wire rack to cool completely. The cookies are especially good warm… with all of that melted chocolate swimming around on top, but if you need to store them, let the chocolate set on the cookies before storing in a covered container.

What I Love About This Recipe:

1. I love that this is a fun recipe for using up those mini Hershey’s bars that you might have leftover from Halloween.
2. We like to make them Pumpkin- Oatmeal S’Mores Cookies by adding a few marshmallows after the chocolate has had a chance to melt (or a sprinkle of some of those super miniature marshmallows that they sell these days).
3. The combination of pumpkin and chocolate is so good!

The chocolate forms a frosting-like layer on top of the cookie, especially while they’re warm.  Picture yourself eating a warm cookie with a melted mass of chocolate on top.  That’s a very pretty picture, isn’t it?  Once cooled, you’ve got a built-in chocolate bar on top of your cookie, creating the advantage of eating a cookie and a chocolate bar all in one dessert. It’s time to try baking these pumpkin oatmeal candy bar cookies, don’t you think? Enjoy!

Here are a few more pumpkin dessert recipes you might like to try: