The secret to extra gooey melt-in-your-mouth treats? Make your chocolate chip cookies with vanilla pudding!
It’s the perfect spin for a classic cookie, and turns this cookie from a good recipe into a great recipe, featuring two types of vanilla – vanilla extract and vanilla pudding!
If you’re a fan of traditional chocolate chip cookies, you’ll love this easy twist!
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They taste like regular chocolate chip cookies, but what is different is the texture of these cookies. They’re a thicker cookie but still light and fluffy – and so good.
Plus, they’re such an easy homemade cookie recipe to make! The next time that you have a craving, keep this recipe at your fingertips.
It’s sure to be one of your favorite recipes for making chewy chocolate chip pudding cookies moving forward.
This has been my go to chocolate chip pudding cookie recipe for many years. You are going to love these.
These are particularly amazing when made into ice cream sandwiches. Simply add a scoop of vanilla ice cream between two rounds and press together.
For extra flair, roll the edges in sprinkles or your favorite toppings.
If you have a bake sale or cookie swap coming up, you’ll find plenty more cookie recipes to choose from especially our cherry cheesecake cookies. They make the perfect baked cookies for any occasion!
These chewy cookies are guaranteed to be a hit!
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Chocolate Chip Pudding Cookies – Tips and Tricks
- Use room temperature ingredients. Butter needs to be softened to cream properly, and eggs will incorporate more evenly into the dough when they aren’t cold.
Let them sit on the counter for 30 minutes or so before starting the recipe.
- Check the label carefully. It’s crucial to use the instant variety for chocolate chip cookies with pudding. Regular mixes won’t set up correctly and the dough will be too soft.
- Want a different size? You can make these any size you would like with a few adjustments.
For larger treats, increase the time and lower the temperature if they start to get too dark.Smaller treats will bake up quickly, so keep a close eye on them to avoid burning.
- Get them perfectly round. Grab a biscuit or round-shaped cutter that is slightly larger than the chocolate chip pudding cookies.
When they first come out of the oven, place the cutter around each one and move it in a circular motion. It will shape the soft edges into a perfect circle!
- Cooling: Once your soft cookies are out of the oven for a couple minutes, they can be transferred to a wire rack to cool completely, or enjoy the baked cookies right out of the oven!
- Storage: These will keep at room temperature in a airtight container for up to a week.
Variations
- Change the chocolate. These soft chocolate chip cookies are already perfection, but you can use other options like white chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, peanut butter chips, semi-sweet chocolate chips, or dark chocolate chips, too.
- Use a different dry pudding mix. The fun part about adding the secret ingredient (pudding mixture) is that you can try adding a different box of pudding mix to the recipe.
Instant vanilla pudding mix, instant chocolate pudding mix, instant mint pudding mix – all are great options and is sure to create delicious pudding cookie recipes.
- Add peanut butter. A lot of people LOVE adding peanut butter to their cookie recipes, you can do this in the recipe itself or adding peanut butter chips on top!
While I’m more of a classic chocolate chip cookies type of gal, do what makes you happy! Peanut butter cookies are yummy, too.
Video: Chocolate Chip Cookies With Vanilla Pudding
To see us make this from start to finish, watch the video at the top of this post.
Kitchen Tools You Will Need
- Stand mixer or large mixing bowl with hand mixer
- Baking Sheets – A standard 13×18 jelly roll pan is the perfect size for these chocolate chip pudding cookies. I’m able to fit two dozen rounds per pan.
- Parchment Paper or Silpat Mats – Line your pans with these for easy cleanup!
- 2 Tablespoon Scoop – Also great for meatballs, ice cream, and portioning out leftovers.
- Cooling Racks – Cool a large batch of treats without taking up a lot of counter space.
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