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Pumpkin Oat Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars

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By: MadelinePosted: 10/15/2020Updated: 03/31/2021

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These Pumpkin Oat Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars are the perfect gluten free pumpkin cookie bars. Use oat flour, pumpkin puree and a few other simple ingredients to make a hearty and comforting cookie bar.

Side view of pumpkin chocolate chip bars cut into sliced and stacked up

Oat flour is the key ingredient for these Pumpkin Cookie Bars

For me, the best part about the change of season is getting excited to cook all the seasonal food. Of course, the flavor or fall is pumpkin spice.

These pumpkin oat chocolate chip cookie bars are healthy, easy, and full of pumpkin spice flavor. I made these pumpkin oat chocolate chip cookie bars about 4 different ways before I decided they were good enough to be published to the blog.

Each time that I made them I sent them into work with my girlfriend. Each time she came home and said, “They loved them!”

The problem with being a perfectionist is that even if other people love my baked goods, I have to really love them before I am ready to share the recipe with everyone.

At first, they were paleo cookies, but they were too moist. Then I tried them with oat flour and I knew I had hit on something good.

Can I make oat flour at home?

Oat flour is just rolled oats that have been ground down into flour. You can buy oat flour at the grocery store or make it at home from rolled oats.

To make your own oat flour at home put rolled oats in a blender and blend. Bled until a smooth flour remains.

Above view of a baking pan of pumpkin oat bars

A healthy pumpkin treat that you could even have for breakfast!

When you bake with oats you inevitably get that chewy, yet creamy texture that oatmeal has. This oat texture gives these pumpkin oat chocolate chip cookie bars the perfect texture somewhere between cookies and cake. They are fluffy, but dense at the same time.

Because there are oats in these bars and some pumpkin puree I can trick myself into thinking they are a healthy treat. They are almost even like a baked oatmeal. Baked oatmeal is a breakfast food in my opinion.

So if you want to eat these pumpkin oat chocolate chip cookie bars for breakfast, I support that!

You can also make these bars for a part of your weekly meal prep. That way you will have a healthy, sweet treat ready to go all week long.

 
Close up three quarter view of pumpkin chocolate chip bars

What kitchen tools and ingredients will I need to make these pumpkin chocolate chip bars?

It only takes a few simple ingredients and basic kitchen tools to make pumpkin oat chocolate chip cookie bars. The kitchen tools you will need for these bars are some large mixing bowls, a whisk, a spatula, and an 9×13 baking pan.

If you want to make your own oat flour at home, you will also need a food processor or a high-speed blender.

As I said before, you will certainly need some canned pumpkin and oat flour in order to make these pumpkin oat chocolate chip cookie bars. You will also need an egg, coconut oil, maple syrup, vanilla extract, baking soda, salt, pumpkin pie spice, and chocolate chips.

Those are the only ingredients you will need to make these delicious and healthy bars. If you want to take these bars up a notch, you could top them with a basic cream cheese frosting.

Three quarter view of pumpkin cookie bars on a cooling rack

Let’s make some Pumpkin Oat Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars!

To begin, preheat the oven to 350F and line a 9×13 baking pan with parchment paper or spray with oil. Then, in a large mixing bowl whisk together egg, pumpkin puree, maple syrup, melted coconut oil, and vanilla extract.

In a separate mixing bowl combine oat flour, salt, baking soda, and pumpkin pie spice. Then, fold dry ingredients into wet with a spatula.

Next, fold chocolate chips into the batter. Then, spread the batter into the baking pan and top with extra chocolate chips.

Bake the pumpkin cookie bars in the oven at 350F for 25 minutes. Finally, remove the cookie bars from the oven and allow to cool fully before slicing into 12 squares.

Above view of sheet pan of Pumpkin Oat Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars

Store bars in an airtight container on the counter for up to 5 days or in the freezer for up to 3 months.

Check out these other healthy pumpkin recipes!

  • Pumpkin Coconut Chicken Curry
  • Healthy Pumpkin Chicken Chili
  • Healthy Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins
  • Pumpkin Spice Chocolate Chip Cookies

Keep reading to find the whole recipe. As always, if you make this recipe, please let me know in the comments or on Instagram!

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Recipe

Pumpkin Oat Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars

★★★★★ 4.4 from 5 reviews

Pumpkin spice cookie bars made with oat flour and chocolate chips

Recipe By: Madeline
Prep: 10 minutesCook: 25 minutesTotal: 35 minutes
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Servings: 12 servings 1x

Ingredients

  • 1 egg
  • 1/3 cup melted coconut oil
  • 1/2 cup pumpkin puree
  • 1.5 tsp vanilla extract
  • 3/4 cup maple syrup
  • 2.25 cups oat flour
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 2 tsp pumpkin pie spice
  • 3/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350F and line a 9×13 baking pan with parchment paper or spray with oil
  2. In a large mixing bowl whisk together egg, pumpkin puree, maple syrup, melted coconut oil, and vanilla extract
  3. In a separate mixing bowl combine oat flour, salt, baking soda, and pumpkin pie spice
  4. Fold dry ingredients into wet with a spatula
  5. Fold chocolate chips into the batter
  6. Spread the batter into the baking pan and top with extra chocolate chips
  7. Bake at 350F for 25 minutes
  8. Remove the cookie bars from the oven and allow to cool fully before slicing into 12 squares
  9. Store bars in an airtight container on the counter for up to 5 days or in the freezer for up to 3 months
This website provides approximate nutrition information for convenience and as a courtesy only. Nutrition data is gathered primarily from the USDA Food Composition Database, whenever available, or otherwise other online calculators.
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  1. Jennifer says

    Posted on 10/13 at 8:36 pm

    In the post before the recipe it mentions an 8×8 pan And a 9×13 pan but the recipe calls for a 9×13. Is the mention of an 8×8 a typo?

    Reply
    • Madeline Tague says

      Posted on 10/13 at 8:48 pm

      9×13 is the correct size! I accidentally wrote the 8×8 in the body. Thank you for pointing that out! I have corrected my error.

      Reply
  2. James says

    Posted on 10/16 at 11:47 am

    These are sooo good! Gone in seconds, definitely a crowd-pleaser!

    ★★★★★

    Reply
    • Madeline says

      Posted on 10/16 at 11:50 am

      Thank you, James!!

      Reply
  3. Kristy says

    Posted on 10/18 at 8:11 pm

    I’m obsessed, made these this morning and half of pan is gone already, def will make again!

    ★★★★★

    Reply
    • Madeline says

      Posted on 10/19 at 9:42 am

      amazing!!! Thank yoU!!

      Reply
  4. Sara says

    Posted on 6/17 at 10:11 pm

    Around the holidays I always end up with an insane amount of extra cans of pumpkin, so every few weeks I’d alternate between these bars and the muffins! So good!!! The perfect texture without falling apart or being too “spicy” like every other pumpkin related recipe out there!

    ★★★★★

    Reply
    • Madeline says

      Posted on 6/23 at 9:34 am

      amzing!!! thank you!

      Reply
  5. april says

    Posted on 9/23 at 3:21 pm

    Maybe my flour wasn’t ground fine enough but these were super dense and did not have a nice flavor! I had to add more spice and sugar and regular flour to make them edible.

    ★★

    Reply
    • Madeline says

      Posted on 9/23 at 3:35 pm

      Thanks for letting me know, April! Sounds like maybe this recipe wasnt a winner in your eyes.

      Reply
  6. Emily says

    Posted on 10/8 at 3:56 pm

    There is something so addicting about these bars! The texture is light and fluffy but then they melt in your mouth. So yummy and definitely will be eating these throughout the holiday season!

    ★★★★★

    Reply
    • Madeline says

      Posted on 10/9 at 7:46 pm

      love it!! thank you!!

      Reply

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