Description
Learn how to make charming Pumpkin Patch Cookies, featuring a rich chocolate cookie base topped with decorative elements like Oreo “soil” and mini pumpkins. This recipe offers a delightful way to celebrate fall with a visually appealing and delicious treat.
Ingredients
- Cookie Dough:
- Butter – ½ cup
- Brown sugar – ¾ cup
- Granulated sugar – ¼ cup
- Egg – 1
- Vanilla extract – 1 tsp
- All-purpose flour – 1¾ cups
- Cocoa powder – ⅓ cup
- Baking powder – ½ tsp
- Baking soda – ¼ tsp
- Fine salt – ¼ tsp
- Milk chocolate chips – 1 cup
- Optional Pumpkin Add-in:
- Pumpkin puree – blot to ¼ cup
- Pumpkin pie spice – 1 tsp
- Ganache:
- Dark chocolate – 6 oz
- Heavy cream – ½ cup
- Butter – 1 tbsp
- Green Buttercream:
- Butter – 3 tbsp
- Powdered sugar – 1–1½ cups
- Milk – 1–2 tsp
- Vanilla – ¼ tsp
- Green coloring
- Decor:
- Crushed Oreos – ¾ cup
- Mini fondant or candy pumpkins
Instructions
- Cream butter and sugars until fluffy; beat in egg and vanilla.
- Whisk flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, and salt; fold into wet ingredients with chocolate chips just to combine.
- Optional: blot ⅓ cup pumpkin down to ¼ cup; fold in with pumpkin pie spice for chewy pumpkin notes without cakiness.
- Scoop tall dough balls onto lined baking sheets; bake at 350°F for 10–12 minutes until edges set and centers are soft; cool 2 minutes on the sheet, then transfer to a wire rack.
- Make ganache by warming cream and pouring over chopped chocolate with butter; stir smooth and cool to a spreadable gloss.
- Spread thin ganache on cooled cookies; sprinkle Oreo “soil”; pipe green buttercream vines/leaves; set small fondant pumpkins.
Notes
- Chill dough 20–30 minutes if warm for thicker, chewier cookies with controlled spread.
- Use small décor pieces so every bite stays balanced and neat.
- Shortbread base option: decorate pumpkin-spiced shortbread squares for ultra-clean edges.
- Prep Time: 20 mins
- Cook Time: 12 mins
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baked
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 160
- Sugar: 13 g
- Sodium: 95 mg
- Fat: 7 g
- Saturated Fat: 4 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 2 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 21 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 2 g
- Cholesterol: 20 mg