Pumpkin Butterscotch Chocolate Cookies
These Pumpkin Butterscotch Chocolate Cookies are made using just 4 ingredients you probably already have in your pantry! You’ll love this easy, versatile recipe that uses a can of pumpkin and a box of cake mix.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! I still have massive amounts of Thanksgiving cooking so this won’t be a long post, but I truly hope you all have an incredible day spent with family, friends, and food.
These cookies are so easy, so moist, so delicious, and so so so wonderful. I vaguely remember making them a few years ago, with spice cake mix and chocolate chips. That version was delicious too! That’s what so great about this – they’re so versatile! Every which way results in moist, delicious, pumpkin-y cookies. I found this recipe scrawled on a piece of paper deep in my recipe drawer and needed to try it out again. It wasn’t until after making them I remember the wonderful result of the first time I made them. Heaven!
These cookies are your typical “chewy” or “crunchy” cookie. They’re cakey, almost like a whoopie pie cookie. However, they’re so easy to whip up, so tasty and so versatile you’ll never miss all those fussy extra ingredients. Try it out, you won’t regret it!
Get your lineup ready! Put some chocolate chips over there too – those were a last minute decision on my part, but definitely a good one!
Put your dry chocolate cake mix into a bowl with the pumpkin puree and stir it up well! A few streaks remaining is fine.
Throw your butterscotch and chocolate chips right on top.
Fold them in gently. Look how delicious that looks…so good!
Using a cookie scoop, place mounds of dough onto lined baking sheets. Gently wet your hands (so they don’t stick to the dough), and press down the cookies slightly. The cookies don’t spread much, so if you really like perfect looking cookies, make them that way before you put them into the oven!
11 to 14 minutes later..you’ve got chocolate pumpkin gems. Let them cool on the baking pan for 10 minutes before you try to remove them.
Yum! Transfer them to a wire rack to cool (and definitely steal one to “test”, it’s quality control people). Enjoy!

Pumpkin Butterscotch Chocolate Cookies
- Prep Time: 10
- Cook Time: 14
- Total Time: 24 minutes
- Yield: 3 dozen cookies 1x
Ingredients
- 1 15.25 ounce box chocolate cake mix (or your favorite flavor!)
- 1 15 ounce can pumpkin puree
- 1 cup butterscotch chips
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350*F.
- Place cake mix and pumpkin puree in a bowl and mix until full combined. Stir in butterscotch and chocolate chips.
- Using a cookie scoop, scoop dough onto baking sheets covered with parchment paper or Silpat liners. They won’t spread much, so you can place the dough close together (about 1 inch apart should be fine).
- Bake for 11-14 minutes, depending on how big your scoops are. Let cool on baking sheets for 10 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool.
looks delicious and simple! I love all three flavors, but never thought of putting them together!
these look wonderful and ive seen so many people make cookies out of just one can pumpkin + one box of cake mix. Must try!
Also the cookies…are they fairly large as well as puffy? Could just be the photos/scale of them but they look so lovely and BIG and puffy :)
Mine weren’t too big, but they are puffy!! You can make them as large as you want, just up the baking time a little bit so they are cooked through.
I like that combo! And I LIKE that it uses a box of cake mix!!!
Cookies looks totally irresistable… I know my kids are going to love them..here they go on my bookmark list !
Guuurl, how you have time to college and all this baking will never cease to amaze me. Looks fantastic!
I made these last night and I had to come back to leave a comment because they’re SO good. I wasn’t sure what they were going to be like with the pumpkin, but wow. I’ll definitely be making them again in the future, and maybe I’ll experiment with other cake flavors. Thank you for sharing this :)
So glad you enjoyed them! Let me know if you use any other flavors so I know which others to try out :)
Today I decided to experiment a little with this, and I used a Spice Cake mix, the pumpkin, and butterscotch chips. They’re delicious :)