Between the peppermint bark and white chocolate peppermint popcorn I inhaled over the past few days, it should come as no surprise that I baked up another peppermint and chocolate sweet treat earlier this week.
Yes, these cookies are already gone.
You put pudding mix, peppermint and chocolate in a cookie and try to resist!
I got the idea for these cookies from seeing tons of boxes of cake mix in the grocery store that promised a “super moist” cake because of the inclusion of pudding mix in the batter.
Why not include pudding mix in cookies!?
I actually had to make a couple of batches of these cookies before the recipe was good enough to share (poor me, plagued with lots of cookie scraps to eat), but the end result of the final batch was worth the effort.
These cookies have crispy edges, ooey gooey centers and a chocolaty flavor with the perfect hit of peppermint. I also love the fun crunch from the peppermint bits in the batter.
Chocolate Peppermint Pudding Cookies
Makes approximately 12 cookies
Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract
- 1/2 packet instant chocolate pudding mix
- 1 cup flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 8 peppermint candies, crushed (may use more or less)
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Mix butter and sugar in a bowl until well combined.
- Add egg, vanilla and peppermint extract to butter mixture and mix until everything is smooth.
- In a separate bowl, combine pudding mixture, flour and baking soda.
- Pour pudding mixture into butter mixture and mix until well combined.
- Fold in peppermint candy pieces.
- Drop one-tablespoon size scoops of dough onto a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper or sprayed with cooking spray.
- Bake for approximately 10 – 12 minutes.
- Cool and enjoy.
Enjoy!
P.S. These cookies are not dog friendly which makes for one very sad puppy in our house.
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Yum! I know I could not resist these! How cool 🙂
I would have never thought about putting pudding in cookies! They look delicious – you’re so creative in the kitchen.
I made cookies like these last week! The chocolate and peppermint combo is SO good!
Mmmm! peppermint + chocolate = heaven
I’m excited to bake cookies later today. It’s been about a year or two, so I’m pretty pumped.
Just woke up and saw these delicious cookies! Is 5:30am too early to bake?? 🙂
p.s. I passed along yesterday’s post about Max to both my parents who are teachers and I’m hoping to get it throughout the schools to teachers and students! I really hope he reaches his goal!
Brilliant! I’ve always seen ‘a whole cup of pudding’ on the boxes of mixes so you’re right..why not just add the pudding yourself? Ahh these sound ahhmazing.
Sadie looks a bit depressed though. ha
Yum! These look so good!
What a great idea! The’d be so moist!
I definitely “pinned” these — such a good idea! If only I had more time to bake!
These look and sound so festive! I need to get some peppermints so I can play around 🙂
“my” (aka i’ve made them several times and so claim them even though i got the recipe onlin) choc chip cookies use pudding too…LOVE how soft they are: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/award-winning-soft-chocolate-chip-cookies/detail.aspx
The ONLY cookies my family makes are w/ pudding! I don’t think we’ve made choc chip cookies without! 🙂 We claim they’re ‘ours’ too!
My mother-in-law taught me to put a packet of pudding mix in any cake mix. It’s genius, so moist and delicious!
That’s a very clever trick 🙂
I think pumpkin tends to work in the same way – I love the texture it lends to cookies!
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That photo of Sadie is quite possibly one of the cutest things I have ever seen!
Must try the cookies.. I love choc peppermint 🙂
I was going to experiment with peppermint sweets last night! These look awesome 😀
I love them already! The heart of the cookie looks so chewy and chocolaty!
I luv chocolate & peppermint together…esp. during this time of year! Pudding..sounds like my kind of cookie…moist and soft! Happy weekend!
Mmm those sounds delicious! I just made peppermint bark last night. So goood!
These sound fantastic! Sadie is queen of the puppy-dog sad eyes. 🙂
These look AMAZING! I will definitely try these (and eat all of them before the boyfriend can get his hands on even ONE).
Anything with the word pudding in the title steals my heart.. this sounds melty and delicious! Do you think they’d travel well? I’d love to mail them to my boyfriend overseas..
i do! they weren’t TOO mushy… i think they’d stay together!
yummy!! looks so easy might have to bust this out over the holidays!
Forget gingerbread, peppermint & chocolate is definitely the flavor combo of the season!
Looks amazing! I just pinned them – they should be shared with the world. 😉
Ohh my bf would love those! He’s obsessed with peppermint!
Mmmm looks so delicious!! ahahaha….*shhh* it’s a secret, but I’ve worked on the perfect (at least for me) cookie recipe over the course of one year and they are perfect! And they contain 1 TBSP vanillla pudding mix. 😀
That sounds so good. I love pudding, chocolate, and peppermint, so you definitely found a winner.
Those cookies wouldnt last long around me either! 😀
The holidays definitely make me crave sweets! Hot Chocolate, peppermints, 1 lb slice and share snickers-kidding (only about the sharing) I’ve been waiting for some pbfingers peanut butter dessert recipes, will I get my Christmas wish?
mmm I LOVE moist cookies. And mint + choc is the best!!
You can feel the Christmas spirit everywhere! Happy holidays!
I still love those plates, and am resenting amazon.com for not shipping them to Canada!
I am so impressed that you experiment with baking! If I experiment, I end up with a complete disaster, like the time I tried to use bananas instead of butter (what was I thinking? Those two things are not even remotely similar!) or tried replacing brown sugar with honey. Haha I am so glad you have better results! These cookies look delicious – great idea using pudding!!! 🙂
Oooh, this reminds me, I thought of you the other day. My sis gave her dog a candy that had a thin choc coating and I was like, NOOOOO! Choc is poisonous for dogs! Then my mum did the same and I freaked out. So I googled it for us, and read up on theobromine poisoning, aaaaaand it turns out that it usually takes a significant amount of chocolate to adversely affect a dog (obviously depending on size and type etc).
So, while I’m certainly not advocating giving chocolate to dogs, if Sadie happens to get a few chocolate cookie crumbs while your unawares or anything like that, she’ll probably be just fine 🙂
These sound really fun and PERFECT for the season! Thanks for sharing 🙂
I tried making these. They tasted really good, but looked absolutely terrible!
Made these tonight. LOVE THEM! Thank you! 🙂
I just made these. I had one right out of the oven and it was delicious. Thank you for experimenting and sharing. Tis the season. Someone commented that they look “terrible”. I think because the cookies are light brown. Any suggestions to add to make them a darker chocolate brown? Thanks again. I will make these again for sure.
When you say to use 1/2 a packet of instant choc. pudding, did you use half a 3.4 or 5.9 ounce packet??? Thanks! I can’t wait to try these!