Sourdough Chocolate Chip Cookies with Pumpkin and Pecans

The absolute best sourdough cookies recipe! These sourdough chocolate chip cookies are made with roasted pumpkin, pecans, and brown butter for the most fantastic texture and flavor.

Sourdough Cookies

There are a lot of ways to make a cookie with a sourdough starter. Most recipes I see though, result in a cookie that is less like a cookie and more like a scone. Well, rest assured that this is a cookie recipe, not a scone recipe. These sourdough cookies come out with that perfect moist chewy cookie texture.

Cookies Made with Sourdough Starter

Making cookies with a sourdough starter is all about how you mix the ingredients. The order you mix your ingredients is the most important part. You need to mix the sourdough starter with the wet ingredients and sugar first before you add any dry ingredients. Also, I want to note that the roasted pumpkin is a wet ingredient too, so that needs to be mixed in with the sourdough starter. Just follow the directions on the recipe card below and you won’t have any problems.

As for storing the cookie dough, you can ferment the cookie dough in the fridge overnight before forming the cookie dough balls and baking. When I make a batch of these cookies, I ferment them overnight in the fridge, then shape the dough into balls the next day. This recipe at 1x makes 20 cookies, so usually bake six then freeze the rest.

To bake the frozen cookie dough, you just put the frozen cookie dough ball on a parchment paper-lined sheet pan, let it sit at room temperature for about 30 minutes, then bake as normal.

Sourdough Cookies Recipe

Since we use sourdough starter and pumpkin in this recipe, there is no need for any eggs. My cookie recipe also calls for browned butter, which is just cooked butter. The most important part to remember when using browned butter is to allow it to cool to room temperature before you use it. If you dip a finger in the butter it should not feel warm at all.

Sourdough Chocolate Chip Cookies with Roasted Pumpkin

Okay, let’s talk about the roasted pumpkin. Please use freshly roasted pumpkin in this recipe if you can! It’s so good! All you have to do is cut and clean a pumpkin, rub the inside with a little oil, place it open-side down on a sheet pan, and roast at 425° F for 20 minutes. Once it is completely cool, you can scoop the pumpkin out of the skin and use it in the recipe.

If you cannot use freshly roasted pumpkin, it’s okay to use canned pumpkin puree, but you need to strain off the excess liquid through a cheesecloth.

Sourdough Chocolate Chip Cookies

These cookies are fantastic with dark chocolate and pecans, but you can change up the ingredients a bit to suit you. If you rather have another kind of nut, just evenly sub it out. You can also use milk chocolate baking chips if you prefer.

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Sourdough Chocolate Chip Cookies with Pumpkin and Pecans

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The absolute best sourdough cookies recipe! These sourdough chocolate chip cookies are made with roasted pumpkin, pecans, and brown butter for the most fantastic texture and flavor.

• Author: Kaitlynn Fenley
• Prep Time: 15 minutes
• Cook Time: 15 minutes
• Total Time: 30 minutes
• Yield: 20 cookies
• Category: Sourdough
• Method: Baking
• Cuisine: American

Ingredients

Dry ingredients

• 340 g all-purpose flour
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt

Browned butter ingredients

• 230 g butter
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp nutmeg

Wet ingredients

• 100 g sugar
• 200 g brown sugar
• 140 g roasted pumpkin
• 7 g vanilla extract
• 7 g maple extract
• 120 g sourdough starter (active or discard)

Fold In

• 1 Bar of dark chocolate, chopped
• 3/4 cup pecans chopped

Instructions

1. Brown the butter in a small saucepan until bubbly, and dark golden. Watch it carefully and stir it continuously. Add the cinnamon, and nutmeg and mix well.  Remove from heat and allow the butter to cool completely to room temperature.
2. Mix the dry ingredients flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt and set aside.
3. Once the butter has cooled to room temperature, add the sugar, brown sugar, vanilla extract, maple extract, sourdough starter, roasted pumpkin, and browned butter to a large bowl.  Combine with a whisk or hand mixer until even.
4. Fold the combined dry ingredients into the wet ingredient butter mixture. Stir until well combined.
5. Add your chopped chocolate bar and pecans.
6. Place the dough in the fridge for at least 2 hours or refrigerate overnight.
7. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Scoop about 2 tablespoons of your chilled cookie dough and shape into balls.
8. Preheat the oven to 400° and place the cookie dough balls about two inches apart on the lined cookie sheet.
9. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes.
10. Remove the cookies and let them sit on the cookie sheet until they are completely cool.

Notes

• How to roast a pumpkin: cut and clean a pumpkin, rub the inside with a little oil, place it open-side down on a sheet pan, and roast at 425° F for 20 minutes. Once it is completely cool, you can scoop the pumpkin out of the skin and use it in the recipe.

Keywords: pumpkin, sourdough, cookies

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Published Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2022 13:52:54 +0000