I look forward to pumpkin season every year. I love decorating with the pumpkins I grow in my garden and baking simple fall treats. The only pumpkin thing I skip? Those overly sweet pumpkin spice lattes - they're just not for me!
These two ingredient pumpkin cookies are one of my favorite easy fall recipes. With just a spice cake mix and a can of pumpkin puree, they're soft, fluffy, and perfect when you want homemade cookies without a lot of work.
If you’ve tried my 2 Ingredient Pumpkin Muffins, you’ll love these cookies just as much. They’re perfect for fall gatherings, lunchbox treats, or an easy after-school snack. Another popular pumpkin recipe is this easy pumpkin pudding dump cake. It's so delicious and the pudding makes it so moist! I have even more Easy Cake Mix Recipes and more Spice Cake Mix Recipes here if you need to find more inspiration!
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Why I love these 2 Ingredient Pumpkin Cookies
- Two Ingredient Pumpkin Cookies: These cookies are made with just pumpkin puree and spice cake mix, yet they bake up soft, fluffy, and full of warm pumpkin spice flavor.
- Perfect Bite-Sized Treat: They're just the right size for a quick snack or lunchbox treat. My kids have always called them pumpkin spice donut hole cookies because they taste like a cross between a cookie and a little muffin bite.
- Quick and Easy to Make: No measuring flour, cracking eggs, or adding oil. Just mix the two ingredients, scoop, and bake.
- Less Mess Than Mini Muffins: You get that same fun, bite-sized shape without filling tiny muffin cups or scrubbing a mini muffin pan afterward.
- Great for Pumpkin Season: Every fall I'm looking for simple ways to enjoy pumpkin, and this recipe is one I make again and again. If you're a pumpkin fan too, be sure to check out my collection of Easy Pumpkin Recipes.
Ingredients for pumpkin and cake mix cookies
Spice cake mix - any brand works but I always stock up on Betty Crocker when it's on sale and use that.
100% Pure Pumpkin - 15 oz can. Sometimes called Pumpkin Puree. You do NOT want to use a can of pumpkin pie filling. That is a different product and has ingredients in it that we don't need. The 15 oz can is the smaller sized can that the grocery stores normally stock.
How to make spice cake and pumpkin cookies
Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit
Step 1
Mix can of pumpkin with spice cake mix in a larger sized bowl. I like using a mixer because it's quick. But you can certainly mix with a spoon.
Step 2
I use a small cookie scoop to evenly portion the dough for each cookie morsel. The scoop is the 1 Tablespoon size. And yes, for you, I measured how much mine specifically holds. With that size scoop, this recipe consistently makes 2 ½ dozen for me.
These cookies stay in the shape they are. They don't flatten when baked.
Cake Mix Substitution
No spice cake mix? Use yellow cake with 1 ½ teaspoons of pumpkin pie spice. This will give you a similar flavor.
Variations to Muffins like a Cake or a Bread Loaf
Love this easy pumpkin batter? Try baking it a different way!
- Pumpkin Cake: Bake the batter in a cake pan and top it with your favorite store-bought buttercream or cream cheese frosting.
- Pumpkin Bread: Pour the batter into a loaf pan for a quick pumpkin bread. See my 3 Ingredient Pumpkin Bread recipe for pan size and baking time.
Storage
Wrap using plastic wrap or seal in an airtight container. I normally place parchment paper between layers, and refrigerate for a maximum of 4 days.
If freezing, make extra sure the cookies are well wrapped and then placed in an air tight container. I don't recommend keeping them longer than a month or two.
FAQ's
There are extra ingredients like sweeteners and spices that you don't want in this recipe. Use 100% pumpkin (puree).
I'm sorry, but you bought and used the wrong size can of pumpkin. You want the 15 oz size. If you haven't started baking, you may need another box of cake mix (if the pumpkin can was 28 - 30 oz).
WW changes how they calculate their points frequently. In the post with 2 ingredient pumpkin muffins, I share the nutrition info. so you should be able to calculate your points for the muffins. If you want to calculate points for the cookies, the recipe makes 2 ½ dozen.
Other easy pumpkin recipes
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Pumpkin Quickies Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 box Spice Cake Mix I usually use Betty Crocker of Dunkin Hines
- 15 oz can of 100% pumpkin puree NOT pumpkin pie filling
Instructions
- Preheat oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheight
- Mix spice cake mix and can of pumpkin until well combined.
- Scoop 1 Tablespoon-sized portions for each cookie on a silicone baking mat. Recipe should make 30 cookies
- Bake for 13-15 minutes. Test to see if done with toothpick
Notes
Nutrition (estimate)
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Nancy
I have just made these - in fact some just came out of the oven. I used the small cookie scoop and got way more than 30. But that’s ok!
Martha
I loved this. I added some pumpkin pie spice in the batter.
Susan Moncrieff
If you like extra pumpkin spice flavor, absolutely add a bit more! Glad you enjoyed it.
Jayne
I made these to take to a party, but I have a friend who is diabetic, so I bought sugar, free, white cake mix, added, pumpkin spice and they turned out great I tasted one of each, and you could not tell the sugar free from the spice cake.