Name: Chocolate Chip Pudding Cookies
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 15 min
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 cup butter softened to room temperature; 3/4 cup light brown sugar; 1/4 cup granulated sugar; 1 (3.4 oz) package of instant vanilla pudding mix ( you can use any flavor) see notes below for suggestions; 2 eggs; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 2 -1/4 cups all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoon baking soda; 1/2 teaspoon salt; 2 cups semi-sweet, milk, or dark chocolate chips

These instant chocolate chip pudding cookies are delicious and if you're a fan of soft cookies this is the perfect recipe for your collection.

Using instant pudding of any flavor creates a cake-like texture of delicious chocolate chip soft cookies.

We love to experiment with different flavored pudding mixes and have tried them all, chocolate with the addition of coconut is a family favorite, so just get creative and invent your own cookie flavors.

This recipe is super simple and any chocolate chip lover just may like this unique baking style for a nice change in the traditional Bakery Style Chocolate Chips Cookie recipes.

If you are a cookie jar cookie lover, do try my family's Everything Cookies, Chocolate Chip Shortbread recipe, Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe, and oatmeal cookies!

Scroll down to this easy recipe and give them a try and to avoid the ads just hit print on that printable card at the end of this post!

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The Easiest Steps to Making Instant Pudding Chocolate Chip Cookies

prepare your baking sheets and preheat the oven
cream the sugars and butter
in another bowl whisk the rest of the dry ingredients listed in the recipe card below and evenly blend them together
fold in the chips and any other mix-ins
bake for around 10 minutes, cool, and enjoy!
Remember just scroll down to the recipe card for all the recipe ideas, mix-ins and hit print, and skip all our tips it's all in the card below with measurements

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Baking Tools to Have on Hand for Any Kind of Cookie Baking

extra large mixing bowls
spatula
hand-held electric beater
cookie scoops in different sizes
baking sheets
parchment paper or silicone baking mats to fit the baking sheets

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Tips to Create Perfect Pudding Cookies

Bake on parchment paper or a Silpat mat
Always preheat the oven
Use softened butter never margarine
use a different flavor of instant pudding to make pistachio, french vanilla, chocolate and other flavors just by adding coordinating nuts, coconut or chocolate chips to mix and match flavors
Additions like chocolate chunks, candy bars, coconut, or sprinkles can be added
Try a different extract, coconut, anisette, orange, almond, rum all great flavor additions
Store these in an airtight container with wax paper between the cookies for freshness
Always cream the two sugars with butter for at least 3 to 4 minutes
Try using almond or coconut extract instead of vanilla for a different-flavored cookie
Only use instant pudding NEVER the cooking kinds
Remember to experiment with the style you like cooking longer or shorter times, flatten with the palm of your hand for thinner cookies
use an ice cream scoop for same-size uniform cookies

Make Our Pudding Chocolate Chip Cookies with exact measurements from the printable recipe card at the bottom of this page

flour
instant vanilla pudding
butter softened
eggs
brown sugar
granulated sugar
baking soda
vanilla
salt
dark chocolate chips overflowing or whatever you like
Optional: any kind of nuts coconut, chocolate chunks, peanut butter chips, chopped candy bars,

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These rich buttery chocolate chip cookies have a secret ingredient instant pudding to keep them soft.

Use any flavor of instant pudding and mix and match the recipe with mix-ins.

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American

Yield: 30

Author: Claudia Lamascolo

Chocolate Chip Pudding Cookies

A soft chocolate chip cookie made with instant pudding in the mix. The texture is more cake-like and delicious. Not a crunchy cookie.

Prep time: 5 MinCook time: 10 MinTotal time: 15 Min

Ingredients

1 cup butter softened to room temperature
3/4 cup light brown sugar
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1 (3.4 oz) package of instant vanilla pudding mix ( you can use any flavor) see notes below for suggestions
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 -1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups semi-sweet, milk, or dark chocolate chips
Mix-in suggestions: peanut butter chip, white chocolate chips, candy bars cut into bite-sized pieces, coconut, raisins, chopped dates, dried fruits, pistachios, macadamia nuts, or another nut you prefer, colorful sprinkles, toffee bits, chopped cookies of any kind

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
In a large bowl cream the butter and sugars together for 3 minutes.
Beat in the pudding dry mix then the eggs and vanilla.
Place the flour, baking soda and salt in another bowl and whisk together.
Combine the two until just evenly blended then fold in the chocolate chips
This cookie is soft and will be a soft dough.
Using a cookie scoop or tablespoon, drop the cookies onto the prepared baking sheet in round mounds.
Bake for around 10 minutes or until the edges start to brown.
Cool before removing from the pan.
Note: do not use hot cookie sheets to bake another batch, the sheet must be cooled first.
Store in airtight containers for up to 3 days or freeze them.

Notes

Tips to Create Perfect Pudding Cookies

Bake on parchment paper or a Silpat mat
Always preheat the oven
Use softened butter never margarine
Try a different extract, coconut, anisette, orange, almond, rum all great flavor additions
Experiment with a different flavor of instant pudding to make pistachio, french vanilla, chocolate, and other flavors just by adding coordinating nuts, coconut, or chocolate chips to mix and match flavors
Additions like chocolate chunks, candy bars, coconut, or sprinkles can be added
Store these in an airtight container with wax paper between the cookies for freshness
Always cream the two sugars with butter for at least 3 to 4 minutes
Try using almond or coconut extract instead of vanilla for a different-flavored cookie
Only use instant pudding NEVER the cooking kinds
Remember to experiment with the style you like cooking longer or shorter times, flatten with the palm of your hand for thinner cookies
Using an ice cream scoop will make same-size uniform cookies
Use sugar-free instant pudding, or sugar-free chocolate chips, stevia, or another sugar-free substitute for low-carb and -sugar chocolate chip cookies with the addition of almond flour instead of AP flour

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