Thursday, May 30, 2013

Chocolate Chip Vanilla Pudding Cookies



Jason's parents made the trek from Texas to North Carolina a few weekends ago to visit us in our new home. I wanted to make sure they were comfortable and well fed (of course!) so I made a point to prepare some snacks to have on hand. I put a basket of goodies in their room plus left stuff out on the counter. I knew we needed some cookies (when we do NOT need cookies?!) so I took the opportunity to try out the pudding cookies everyone in the blogosphere has been raving about.

{I mentioned previously that I try out recipes on guests...}

Using pudding mix in your cookies promised to make some serious soft baked cookies... and it definitely delivered! Even a week later, they were still as soft as they were the day they were baked. The flavor of the pudding is very subtle - perhaps not even note worthy - but I've only tried vanilla (a basic flavor component to chocolate chip cookies anyways!) so I'll have to try a few more flavors before claiming an official opinion on that :)

These cookies got 2 thumbs up from us all - thankfully, including our guests! - and I loved that it made a large batch so we never ran low.

Have you tried pudding cookies yet? What flavor combo is your fave?

I am weird and don't like gobs of chocolate chips in my cookies so I only used 1 cup for the entire batch but feel free to up it to 2 cups!


Chocolate Chip Vanilla Pudding Cookies
Yield: 3 dozen cookies
1 cup unsalted butter, room temp
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1 package vanilla instant pudding mix (3.4 ounce size)
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1-2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350.

Using a hand mixer, combine the butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar in a bowl until creamy. Add in the dry pudding mix,eggs, and vanilla extract and mix until well incorporated.

In a separate bowl, combine your flour, baking soda, and salt.

Add your dry ingredients to your wet ingredients and mix until just combined. Stir in the chocolate chips.

Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and drop rounded tablespoons onto cookie sheet. 

Bake for 9-11 minutes, or until slightly golden. Remove from oven and let cool on pan for 2 minutes before transferring to a wire cooling rack. 

Source: adapted from The Best Blog Recipes

10 comments:

  1. This looks great! I'm always looking for great chocolate chip cookie recipes. Coming over today from StoneGable link-up.

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  2. These cookies look fab, I love pudding cookies. I'd love for you to share these over at my link party :D

    http://thevelvetmoonbaker.blogspot.ie/2013/06/sweet-savoury-sunday-14.html

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  3. Sound tasty. I've pinned to try later! :)

    ~Emily
    A Tossed Salad Life

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  4. Yummy. My daughter only requests Chocolate Chip cookies! Love them! I've pinned it! Thanks for sharing at Two Cup Tuesday at Pint Sized Baker.

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  5. I use almost everything in my recipe with just a few tweaks, so I was very excited to try this recipe! They are in the oven now, so thanks so much for recipe will let you now how they turn out by my kids and hubby expression, Thanks!

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