Pumpkin Blossoms are a fun fall twist on the classic peanut butter blossom cookie. Add your favorite flavor of Hershey kiss to the center for a decadent pumpkin cookie!
Love pumpkin desserts? Our easy pumpkin bars are a fall favorite, topped with a scrumptious butter pecan frosting! Or give this classic pumpkin blondie recipe a try next.
Why This Recipe is Best
I love pumpkin desserts. From pumpkin donuts to pumpkin coffee cake, it’s all good in my book.
Today my friends, it’s all about the love of pumpkin. And these cookies are going to be a new fall favorite!
- Just 10 minutes to prep
- Chewy, lightly spiced pumpkin cookies
- Pumpkin and chocolate candies in the middle
Love cookies? Try our easy pumpkin oatmeal cookie recipe next. It’s similar to our favorite iced oatmeal cookies, with a fall twist!
Ingredient Notes
- Sugar – Light brown sugar gives a chewy texture to these cookies. Dark brown sugar is fine to use as well if that’s what you have.
- Butter – I use unsalted butter in my baking so I can control the amount of salt. If you only have salted butter, just omit the pinch of salt in the recipe.
- Flour – Regular all-purpose flour works great for these cookies. Learn how to measure flour properly so you don’t get a dense cookie.
- Pumpkin – Be sure to use 100% PURE canned pumpkin, not pumpkin pie filling.
- Hershey Kiss – The soft pumpkin-flavored Pumpkin Kisses candy at the center of a chewy cookie is a fall fest in your mouth. But I also love the original chocolate kisses at the center, so I use both!
Easy Instructions
- Mix. Beat the sugar, butter, pumpkin, egg and salt until combined. Add the flour, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves and blend for 1 to 2 minutes, until well combined.
- Scoop. Scoop the batter into a greased mini muffin tin, distributing it evenly.
- Bake. Bake the cookies at 350 degrees F for about 18 minutes.
- Press. Remove the cookies from the oven and immediately press a Hershey’s Kiss or candy into the center of each one. Let cool in the pan for about 10 minutes then remove and enjoy!
Tips and Tricks
- Fill the mini muffin tin evenly so your cookies are the same size and bake in the same amount of time.
- Don’t overbake your pumpkin blossoms or you could have a dry, crumbly cookie. Take them out BEFORE they begin to brown.
- Candy Substitutes – Instead of pumpkin or chocolate kisses, you could also use dark chocolate, white chocolate, hazelnut or any flavor! Or try these with mini Reese’s cups or other mini candies like Snickers or Twix. Or use candy corn for a fall theme!
- Store the cookies in an even layer so the kiss in the center doesn’t get squished.
Recipe FAQs
After cooling and removing the cookies from the muffin tin, enjoy immediately or store in an airtight container for up to 3 days.
Yes! After cooling completely, place them in a freezer safe container. If you have more than one layer of cookies to freeze, put a sheet of wax paper between the layers to keep the kiss center in tact. Let thaw at room temperature when ready to serve.
The mini muffin pan makes the cookies evenly sized and creates a little “nest” for the center candy but if you don’t have one, you can still make these. Form the cookie dough into balls and place on a cookie sheet, use your hands to flatten the cookies slightly. After baking, immediately press a candy in the center.
More Pumpkin Recipes
- Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Bars: a layer of graham crust topped with pumpkin cheesecake and chocolate chip cookie!
- Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Dip: perfect when paired with gingersnap cookies
- Pecan Pumpkin Pie
- Pumpkin Pie Dip
- Pumpkin Snickerdoodles
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Pumpkin Blossoms
Ingredients
- 1 cup light brown sugar packed
- ½ cup unsalted butter melted
- ½ cup canned pumpkin
- 1 large egg
- pinch of kosher salt
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ¼ teaspoon ground cloves
- 24 Hershey Kisses any variety, unwrapped
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a mini muffin pan with baking spray. Set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, beat sugar, butter, pumpkin, egg and salt until combined. Add flour, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves. Blend completely for 1-2 minutes.
- Using a small scoop, fill muffin pan until ALL the batter is used, evenly distributing the batter.
- Bake for about 18 minutes. Remove from oven and immediately press a Hershey Kiss in the center of each blossom.
- Allow to cool in pan about 10 minutes. Remove from pan and enjoy. Store in an airtight container at room temperature for 3 days. ENJOY.
Notes
- Other Hershey’s Kiss Flavors: Dark chocolate kisses or white chocolate hugs would be wonderful in the Pumpkin Blossoms too! Or Hazelnut. Or caramel. Okay, basically any kind of kiss will taste amazing here (except peppermint. . . I wouldn’t make these with peppermint kisses).
- Mini candy bars: Miniature snickers, Twix bars, or even Reese’s cups are other great candies to try at the center of these blossoms.
- Candy corn: For a real fall treat extravaganza, press candy corns (laying flat) onto the cookies. I’d arrange them in a star or wheel pattern for a pretty cookie, perfect for Halloween parties.
I know! People always are like “you want to rush into the seasons too quickly” but I’m like “YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH TIME I NEED TO FIT IN ALL MY FALL/HALLOWEEN/HOLIDAY TREATS!” And then they stare at me. >_< But dude these pumpkin blossoms look awesome and perfectly autumn appropriate!
This is so true. LOVE IT.
Great minds think alike!! It’s funny because I noticed last week we posted something very similar on the same day, too! The white chocolate bark. Love it 🙂
I’ll gladly share a brain with you 🙂
Between Jocelyn and you posting on IG, I knew exactly what to look for at Target yesterday. Thanks for the heads up. My basket was full of all kinds of fall baking sweet treats and candy. Loving what you did with the kisses!
Target is a dangerous place for candy shopping!!! Glad you found some sweet stuff 🙂
I’m just glad your dessert disorder personality is as bad as mine 🙂 And these cute little pumpkin cups…you could put any candy in them, and I would gobble them all down. Love these fun treat!!!
just adorable! great snack to bring to work for party days.
Yes! And it’s such an easy recipe to make a double batch too!
Love these little bite size treats! YUM!
I obviously need a trip to Target! I need to get my hands on those pumpkin spice kisses!
Oh I love this butter theory!!! Also, I MUST find those pumpkin spice kisses (though I imagine a Snickers bar would be pretty fab too!)
A Rolo would be lovely as well. Hmmm, yummy!
Ohhh these look so good!
Yes, let’s indulge now, because before long, we will be dieting!
Love this fall take on a christmas favorite!!!
The pumpkin kisses are so good! Hard not to snack on! These blossoms look fantastic! Pinned!
How can you choose which fall flavors to bake with when they’re all so GOOD?!
I love these cookie cups! All of the pumpkin-flavored everything right now is begging to be baked with, and this is the perfect solution! No mixer, too. I like!
They really are all so good!! Which is why this also is my favorite time of year!
Loving the kisses inside of these!! So yummy!
Yum! These are adorable. And I love all the flavored Kisses and chocolate chips that start coming out this time of year. So good! Yeah for fall baking!
These are totally adorable! Pinned, and adding Hershey’s kisses to my shopping list 🙂
I think my Fall blues were just cured with this recipe. Seriously want now!
Love these! I hadn’t made a recipe with Hershey’s kisses since last Xmas and I have one for next week. Great minds 🙂
The pumpkin kisses are so good! Haven’t found any yet this year but I have purposefully NOT been to Target!
Pinned!
I can’t wait to see what you made 🙂 Thanks for pinning!
Love! Love! Love!
I can never get enough pumpkin baked goods in the fall ! YUM!
I hear ya!