Name: Cake Mix Pumpkin Cookies
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 36
Ingredients: 15 oz spice cake mix; 15 oz canned pumpkin; 1 ¼ cups semi-sweet chocolate chips; 1 egg

These Cake Mix Pumpkin Cookies are made with a box of spice cake mix and 3 simple pantry ingredients. An easy and delicious cake mix dessert for fall!

The easiest pumpkin cookies!

These are the easiest pumpkin cookies ever and they are oh so yummy! Here’s why we love them:

Just 4 ingredients: All you need to make easy pumpkin cookies is cake mix, canned pumpkin, chocolate chips, and an egg.
Full of pumpkin flavor: Filled with delicious pumpkin spice flavor in every bite, these cookies make the best seasonal dessert!
Easy cake mix dessert: Cake mix recipes are one of the best ways to make homemade baked treats in a fraction of the time!

“Great cookies and very simple! I doubled the batch and they went fast.” -reader review

I love how easy these recipes are to make and the prep work is so fast! Soon your kitchen will be filled with delicious pumpkin spice floating through the air.

cake mix pumpkin cookies on a wooden cutting board

Ingredients to make cake mix pumpkin cookies

Spice Cake Mix
Egg
Canned Pumpkin: not pumpkin pie filling
Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips: or dark chocolate chips

egg, spice cake mix, chocolate chips, and canned pumpkin

How to make cake mix pumpkin cookies

Step 1: Pour the bag of spice cake mix into a large mixing bowl.

Step 2: Add the pumpkin puree and egg and mix it all together until the batter is completely combined.

Recipe note

“Do I add the ingredients on the back of the cake box?“

Nope! You will only use the box of cake mix itself, plus the other ingredients listed on the recipe card below.

This will look very thick at first, but just keep stirring and it all comes together. I find a rubber spatula to be the easiest tool for mixing these pumpkin cookies.

Step 3: Fold the semi-sweet chocolate chips into the pumpkin cake mix batter using your rubber spatula.

Step 4: Drop and shape the pumpkin batter into balls on a baking sheet. The pumpkin cookies will not change shape much, so shaping them before baking will ensure more evenly sized cookies.

Step 5: Bake the cake mix pumpkin cookies at 350 degrees for 13-15 minutes, until they no longer look gooey on top and the edges are set.

Cool the cookies for 2 minutes on the pan before removing onto a wire rack to cool completely.

These cookies are soft and chewy and full of pumpkin spice flavor with rich melted chocolate chips mixed in. This recipe makes over 30 cookies and they will disappear fast!

They are so easy to make that this would be a great fall baking activity to do with kids who love to help.

All you you need is just one bowl and about 10 minutes to have these yummy cookies in the oven!

Next time you are in the fall baking mood whip up a batch of these easy pumpkin chocolate chip cookies.