 Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and a very special welcome if you're new here. My name is Jen. I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach and today I have a special, fun video for you. We are going to make the best. And when I say the best, I mean the best, chewy pumpkin cookies just in time for Halloween. These are great for the Halloween holiday. These are great for fall. They're just really absolutely delicious. I have perfected the recipe and I thought what better video than the day before Halloween to share my favorite pumpkin cookie recipe. So if you're excited, give this video a big, huge thumbs up. Make sure you're subscribed. Your bell notification is turned on because I upload five videos every week and Sunday we always do a fun video like a cookie video. Don't forget to check out the description box down below for nutrition coaching. I do offer personalized to you macros and calories. Highly recommend. This is how I've lost and maintained a 140 pound weight loss as well as one-on-one coaching if you would like to chat with me directly. Links and discounts to my favorite things, my Facebook group and my recipe website where you will find today's cookie recipe will be in the description box. Now I am going to use regular butter, regular sugar, regular ingredients in this but on my recipe website I will give you modifications. So whatever your preference is, weight watcher, calorie friendly or just a really indulgent, chewy pumpkin cookie, all of the information will be on my website. So let's make the best pumpkin cookies. So for our pumpkin cookies, we actually don't need a lot of ingredients and I'm telling you these are incredible. So let me show you what you'll need. So you're going to need a flour and sugar as well as brown sugar, a can of pumpkin puree. Make sure you don't buy pumpkin pie filling. Make sure it's just the unsweetened pumpkin puree. You'll need a couple of egg yolks at room temperature, baking soda, baking powder, pumpkin pie spice, vanilla extract, salt and about three quarters of a cup of butter at room temperature. I'm using Keri Gold. This is my all-time favorite butter. So the first thing we're going to do for our cookies is I have a quarter cup of sugar. I'm going to add that to a small bowl and then I'm going to add some pumpkin pie spice and basically I'm making a pumpkin pie spiced sugar that is going to go on top of our cookies. So go ahead and mix that up and set it aside. So the next step for our cookies and do not skip this step. It is imperative for the cookies to come out the right texture and consistency. You're going to add your half of a cup of canned pumpkin to a plate and then just spread that out and take a paper towel and you're going to soak up any liquid. So we still want the canned pumpkin but what we want is this to soak up any excess liquid so that it's a little bit drier. So your pumpkin should be very dry, no more liquid coming onto your paper towel and now our half of a cup is pretty much a quarter of a cup that's exactly what you want for your pumpkin puree and now we're going to start putting together the cookies. So I have one and a quarter cup of all-purpose flour, pumpkin pie spice, half of a teaspoon of baking powder and half of a teaspoon of baking soda and half of a teaspoon of salt. Go ahead and mix all of the dry ingredients together. I've added my three-quarter cup of butter, one cup of packed brown sugar to a bowl with your handheld mixer, cream that together. Now we're going to add in our vanilla and our two room temperature egg whites and then give that another mix. You want to mix it for a couple of minutes until it's nice and creamy. Now we're going to add in that pumpkin and give it one final mix. Then we're going to add the wet mixture into our dry mixture and then on low speed just mix until combined. So now I'm going to take my mix. I want about a two tablespoons worth of dough. I mean really you can make as many as you want. You'll just do points and calories based on the number of cookies that you get but we're going to roll the ball in our cinnamon and sugar mix, in our pumpkin spice and sugar mixture and then we're going to set it on the plate. We do want our cookies a couple of inches apart. Cookies are going in. I did sprinkle just a little bit of that pumpkin spice sugar mixture on top, 350 degrees, 12 to 14 minutes. If you want a really chewy center cookie, stop at 12 minutes. I just pulled out the first batch of cookies, OMG my house smells real good. I mean really, really good like a fall day. I am going to allow these to cool for just a few minutes, take them off the baking sheet, skip my next set, ready to go into the oven. The last batch of cookies is going in. So I actually got 16 cookies and you can see here that I actually have a little bit of leftover pumpkin spice and sugar and I'm out of batter. So let's get this last batch in the oven. Final batch of cookies are out of the oven. I'm going to allow the final batch of cookies to cool. I cannot film the best pumpkin cookie video without trying the pumpkin cookies. Look at how perfectly baked these are. They're soft and then the edges are crispy. They're literally the perfect cookie. They literally melt in your mouth and look at that. It reminds me of crumble cookie, the cake-like consistency. Absolutely positively, amazingly delicious. Highly, highly, highly recommend making these cookies. Thank you for joining me for today's video. I hope you enjoyed spending the day baking with me in my kitchen. Hopefully you make and enjoy these cookies as much as I do. I hope your kids love them, your family loves them. Again, they're great for all of the fall and Halloween festivities. Again, the recipe is on my website. How I created it today is well as a modified version with lower calories, lower points and if you enjoyed today's video, give it a big thumbs up, subscribe, turn your bell on and don't forget to check out that description box for the recipe, nutrition coaching, links and discounts to my favorite things and of course, definitely come join our Facebook group. We'd love to have you. Happy Halloween, friends. I hope you have an amazing holiday. I hope you enjoy these cookies and I'll see you in the next one. Bye.