Do you ever struggle with cookies that turn out flat or spread into each other?? If so, then I have a cookie recipe for you that is no fail! Promise! Today’s recipe is for chocolate cookies made using instant chocolate pudding mix and creamy peanut butter, to make a soft chocolate cookie that does not require any chilling! And by adding the dry instant pudding into the cookies, these cookies become soft little pillows of chocolate heaven, with no worries of cookies that spread into puddles during baking!
These cookies are easy to mix up, bake quickly and this is a great recipe to have on hand for when you need cookies quickly. I used Butterfinger bits in my cookies, but you could use any mix-in you want! Reese’s Pieces, peanut butter cups, chocolate chips, peanut butter chips…anything that goes well with chocolate and peanut butter 🙂
I made these cookies for our last Field Training Officer meeting. We have a meeting once a month and it is always from 5pm-7pm. The guys are always hungry, so I try to bring something for us to snack on during the meeting, and these cookies were a hit!
You could bake these into cookies….or just eat the cookie dough 😉
Chocolate Peanut Butter Pudding Cookies
Print RecipeIngredients
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1/4 cup peanut butter
- 3/4 cup light brown sugar, packed
- 1/4 cup white granulated sugar
- 3.4-ounce or 3.56-ounce (Hershey's brand weighs more than the other brands- but both work) instant chocolate pudding, dry
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract (I used Rodelle Bakers Vanilla)
- 2 eggs, room temperature
- 2-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- pinch of salt
- 2 cups Butterfinger bits, chocolate chips, or peanut butter chips (or a mix of all three)
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350-degrees. Line three baking sheets with parchment paper and set aside.
Add butter and peanut butter to the bowl of your stand mixer and beat the butters using the paddle attachment for 1-2 minutes until butter is pale in color and smooth. Scrape the sides of the bowl down and add both sugars to the mixer. Beat on medium-high until sugar mixture is light and fluffy (2-3 minutes). Add the entire package of dry instant pudding mix to the sugar mixture. Mix on low until all ingredients are incorporated. Add the eggs, one at a time, to the mixer. Beat egg into mixture completely before adding second egg. Add vanilla to the mixture and mix on medium-high until all ingredients are incorporated. Scrape down sides of bowl as needed.
With the mixer on low, slowly add the flour, cocoa powder, salt and baking soda to the sugar mixture. Mix until barely combined. Add your mix-in's to the mixture and mix on the lowest setting for 10-seconds. Remove bowl from mixture and use a spoon or rubber scraper to completely combine all ingredients in the dough without overworking it.
Use a small cookie scoop to scoop cookie dough balls onto parchment lined baking sheets. Bake one cookie sheet at a time for 6-8 minutes depending on your desired doneness. I baked mine for 7-minutes and they were perfect. If I was making them for myself, I would have baked them a minute or so less because I like gooey, underdone cookies.
Notes
Store cookies in an airtight container at room temperature. Cookies will stay fresh for several days.
These cookies don’t spread. Like at all. I used the back of a spoon to gently push down on the center of the cookies once I took them out of the oven.
Yum! How can you not love a cookie with hunks of Butterfinger in it?!
Have you ever made cookies using dry instant pudding in the cookie dough? What mix-in’s would you add into the dough? Leave me a comment below 🙂
XOXO,
Kelly
PS- I have linked this recipe up at the following link parties: Meal Plan Monday, Sugar and Spice, Foodie Friday, Pretty Pintastic Party, Reader Tip Tuesday, The Pin Junkie.
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21 Comments
Kelsie | the itsy-bitsy kitchen
May 10, 2018 at 6:18 AMGirl, you’ve outdone yourself. There’s no way I could resist a handful (or two) of these. I meant there are Butterfingers in there? YES PLEASE!
Kelly
May 10, 2018 at 6:31 AMThanks Kelsie! It was a good thing I brought them into work or I would have eaten them all hahaha 🙂 Have a great weekend! XOXO
Maria Doss
May 10, 2018 at 6:23 AMThese are totally sinful Kelly. They look like little brownie bites..dunk ’em in a tall glass of ice cold milk and I’m in heaven:) Drooling here.
Kelly
May 10, 2018 at 6:32 AMThanks Maria! I love me a good chocolate cookie and this once doesn’t disappoint! A tall glass of ice cold milk is definitely a must 🙂 XOXO
patrick@looneyforfood.com
May 10, 2018 at 4:32 PMI always add cornstarch to my cookies to make them pillows so I bet the pudding has the same effect. Chocolate and peanut is a can’t beat team
Kelly
May 15, 2018 at 6:45 AMHi Patrick! Yes….the dry pudding mix totally has that same pillowy effect as the cornstarch! And I agree that chocolate and peanut butter are the best together 🙂 XOXO
Julie @ Back To My Southern Roots
May 10, 2018 at 6:45 PMMmm…pudding and cookies are the perfect combination!
Kelly
May 15, 2018 at 9:00 AMThanks Julie! I agree! XOXO
Milena Perrine
May 11, 2018 at 6:04 AMButterfinger bits folded into a cookie sounds simply amazing! The texture of these is outstanding, great tip for using pudding mix!
Kelly
May 15, 2018 at 9:01 AMThanks Milena! I’m sure you could pair these cookies with a nice dark stout #forthewin 😉
Kim | The Baking ChocolaTess
May 12, 2018 at 6:52 AMThese sound so awesome and I love how fudgy they look! I want like a dozen right now! 🙂
Kelly
May 15, 2018 at 9:02 AMThanks Kim! Sending a dozen your way! XOXO
Liz Berg
May 14, 2018 at 6:11 AMI can never resist a chocolate peanut butter dessert! These cookies are calling my name!
Kelly
May 15, 2018 at 9:02 AMThank you Liz! Have a great week! XOXO
Amy (Savory Moments)
May 14, 2018 at 10:47 AMPudding cookies rock! These look irresistible!
Kelly
May 15, 2018 at 9:03 AMThank you Amy! XOXOXO
Amy
May 15, 2018 at 11:09 PMI have never used pudding mix to make cookies. These sound delicious. I have never thought of my cookies spreading into puddles, but that gave me a picture that I understood – nice wording!!! Thank you for sharing.
Kelly
May 16, 2018 at 6:23 AMHahahaha maybe it’s just me who has had cookies that have just spread into each other and turned into a mess! But the pudding mix in these cookies prevents that! And makes the cookies sooooo soft 🙂
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Amy
May 18, 2018 at 4:32 PMCongratulations on the feature on Sugar and Spice!!!
Patrick Schumacher
June 10, 2018 at 2:05 AMcookies are my favourite. i always looking for recipes of different types of cookies and i made it at home. Your Chocolate Peanut Butter Pudding Cookies lppks yummy. I wanna try to make it. thanks for sharing this recipe.