Weight Watchers Recipe of the Day: 2-Ingredient Chocolate Pumpkin Muffins & Cookies
These 2-ingredient chocolate pumpkin muffins, mini muffins, and cookies made with just chocolate cake mix and a can of pumpkin are a lighter, healthier way to satisfy a sweet tooth.
And did I mention how easy they are?
Weight Watchers Skinny 2-Ingredient Chocolate Pumpkin Muffins
Just stir together a can of pumpkin (or see how easy it is to make your own healthy pumpkin puree) and box of dry cake mix and bake!
I first learned of these skinny sweet treats in one of my Weight Watchers meetings when a member asked how many PointsPlus values there were in the muffins made from cake mix and canned pumpkin.
I hadn't heard of them and had no idea, so suggested she could use her PointsPlus calculator to figure it out from the nutritional labels on the two ingredients and/or do a Google search.
Her question piqued my curiosity and sent me off on a search of my own…
The Skinny on 2-Ingredient Chocolate Pumpkin Muffins and Cookies
It appears the recipe may have originated with Hungry Girl.
She calls her 2-ingredient chocolate pumpkin muffins Yum Yum Brownie Muffins.
I also stumbled upon a recipe for turning the two ingredients into cookies in Camilla Saulsbury's fun cookbook The Ultimate Cake Mix Cookie Book: More Than 375 Delectable Cookie Recipes That Begin with a Box of Cake Mix.
Which to make, muffins or cookies? I decided to stir the two ingredients together and make a few muffins, mini muffins and cookies from it.
Talk about a fun and successful experiment. Everything turned out tasty.
The muffins and mini muffins were moist and not-too-sweet.
I added a few mini chocolate chips to the remaining batter used to make the cookies, giving them a richer flavor.
My guys thought they were all good but liked the cookies best 🙂
Here's a fun video with Hungry Girl, Lisa Lillien, demonstrating How to Make these Simple 2 Ingredient Chocolate Muffins:
Canned pumpkin is really good for you too. It's packed with fiber and vitamins and naturally low in fat.
How Many Calories and WW Points in Easy 2-Ingredient Muffins?
The Points value depends on the size of the muffins/cookies you make. If you make 12 muffins each one will have 150 calories and:
6 *SmartPoints (Green plan)
6 *SmartPoints (Blue plan)
6 *SmartPoints (Purple plan)
4 *PointsPlus (Old plan)
To see your WW PersonalPoints for this recipe and track it in the WW app or site, Click here!
If you make 24 cookies or mini muffins each one will have 3 SmartPoints.
If you make 36 cookies or mini muffins each one will have 2 SmartPoints.
So many options to consider. Enjoy!
Search for More Weight Watchers Friendly Desserts
If you like these easy, 2-ingredient pumpkin chocolate muffins/cookies, be sure to check out my other Weight Watchers friendly sweets recipes including: No-Bake Oatmeal Peanut Butter Chocolate Cookies, WW 2-Ingredient Pineapple Angel Food Cake, Baked Pumpkin Donuts, WW Classic 3-2-1 Microwave Mug Cake and Salted Peanut Chocolate Chip Cookies
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WW 2-Ingredient Chocolate Pumpkin Muffins & Cookies Recipe
Ingredients
- 15 ounces canned pumpkin puree (not pumpkin pie mix)
- 1 box (15.25 ounces) chocolate cake mix
- ⅔ cup mini semisweet chocolate chips (optional)
Instructions
- Makes 12 regular or 36 mini muffins or 36 cookies.
- Position an oven rack in the center of the oven.
- For muffins, preheat the oven to 400F degrees and line 12 muffin cups or 36 mini muffin cups with paper liners or coat them with non-stick spray.
- For cookies, preheat the oven to 350F degrees and line cookie sheets with parchment paper or coat with non-stick spray.
- Make the batter in a large bowl by mixing just the two ingredients together, ignoring the instructions on the cake mix. This will take some effort and the mixture will be very very thick!
- Stir in the mini semisweet chocolate chips, if using.
- For muffins, place batter into the prepared (or mini muffin) tins. Bake at 400F degrees until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 20 minutes for muffins and 12 minutes for the mini-muffins.
- For cookies, drop by tablespoonfuls, 2 inches apart, onto prepared cookie sheets. Bake 9 to 12 minutes, or until the edges are firm and the centers are just barely set when lightly touched.
- Remove from the oven and cool for 1 minute on the cookie sheets and then transfer the cookies/muffins with a spatula to wire racks to cool completely.
Recipe Notes
*Points® calculated by WW. *PointsPlus® and SmartPoints® calculated by Simple Nourished Living; Not endorsed by Weight Watchers International, Inc. All recipe ingredients except optional items included in determining nutritional estimates. SmartPoints® values calculated WITHOUT each plan's ZeroPoint Foods (Green plan, Blue plan, Purple plan) using the WW Recipe Builder.
More Weight Watchers Pumpkin Cake + Desserts
- Easy Healthy Low Fat Pumpkin Cake Recipes (Simple-Nourished-Living)
- Healthy Low Fat Pumpkin Cookie Recipes (Simple-Nourished-Living)
- Pumpkin Spice Cake Mix Muffins (Simple-Nourished-Living)
- Weight Watchers Easy No-Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake (Simple-Nourished-Living)
- Pumpkin Butter (SkinnyTaste)
- Pumpkin Spice Cream Cheese Muffins (DrizzleMeSkinny)
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Linda Runkle
I have made these muffins many times. Love them with butterscotch chips?My son has to lose a lot of weight. He was so glad he could still have his favorite muffins!
Karen Vingiello
I make these for special occasions and everyone loves them!!
Veggies and dark chocolate in one place!