Molly’s Pumpkin Walnut Cookies

An extra Halloween treat for you!

This past Friday and Saturday, I attended a conference at the University of Arizona. Molly Kincaid, one of my law classmates, was a sweetheart to bring in some vegan pumpkin walnut cookies for the group. I posted a photo of the cookies on Friday to the Cruelty-Free Faves Facebook page, and immediately people were “liking” it and asking for the recipe. Molly has been kind enough to share. The recipe is based on a Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies recipe by Isa Chandra Moskowitz that’s available on Isa’s blog (one of my personal faves), Post Punk Kitchen. You’ll be hearing more about Isa’s latest cookbook in an upcoming post.

ingredients:

• 2 1/4 cups flour
• 1 1/3 cups rolled oats
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 3/4 tsp. salt
• 1 tsp. cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp. nutmeg
• 1 1/3 cups sugar
• 2/3 cup canola oil
• 2 tablespoons molasses
• 1 cup canned pumpkin, or cooked pureed pumpkin
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 cup walnuts, finely chopped
• 1/2 cup raisins

directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Have ready two greased baking sheets.
2. Mix together flour, oats, baking soda, salt, and spices.
3. In a separate bowl, mix together sugar, oil, molasses, pumpkin and vanilla until very well combined. Add dry ingredients to wet in three batches, folding to combine. Fold in walnuts and raisins.
4. Drop by tablespoons onto greased cookie sheets, an inch apart. Press into cookie shape with a fork or with your fingers.
5. Bake for about 15 minutes at 350. If you’re using two sheets of cookies on two shelves in your oven, rotate the sheets halfway through for even baking. (You’ll have enough batter for 4 trays.)
6. Remove from oven and get cookies onto a wire rack to cool.

Molly Kincaid

Molly has her own food blog, Pie for Breakfast. Some of the recipes are vegan, and I’m already planning a veganized version of her recipe for Tempura Squash Blossoms.

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   Molly says:

   October 31, 2011 at 7:11 pm

   Love it!!! Thanks so much for linking my site we should cook together sometime

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