Pudding Cookies (with variations!!)

[foreverandalways]

This weekend I made these: Peanut Butter Cup Pudding Cookies, and I highly recommend them to everyone. Go make them as soon as possible. DH doesn't eat sweets and he ate 4 in one sitting.

Ingredients:
2 sticks (1 cup) butter, room temperature
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup light brown sugar
2 eggs
1 T vanilla
2 1/4 cups flour
1 t baking soda
1/2 t salt
1 (4 oz) box instant chocolate pudding
1 (10 oz) bag peanut butter chips
1 cup miniature Reese's peanut butter cups (I have also used big Reese's chopped up into small pieces)

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line cookie sheet with parchment paper. Beat butter and sugar together until fluffy. Add in eggs and vanilla, mix until combined.
Put flour, baking soda, and salt into a separate bowl and mix together. Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients. Add in pudding (do not prepare pudding, add it to mix in powder form). Fold in peanut butter chips and Reese's and mix until just combined (don't over-mix it).
Place heaping tablespoonfuls onto cookie sheet and bake for 9-10 minutes (don't overbake). Let cookies cool for about 10 minutes before removing them from the cookie sheet.

*They freeze very well too, if you're only baking for a small number of people. I halved the recipe and got 13 big cookies (my tablespoons were super heaping ). I also creamed the pudding mix in with the sugars.


***VARIATIONS***
-Chocolate chip: vanilla pudding mix + chocolate chips
-Sugar: vanilla pudding mix, omit add-ins, and roll dough in granulated sugar before baking
-Butterscotch: butterscotch pudding mix + butterscotch chips
-Peanut butter choc chip: reduce butter to 3/4 cup, add 1/2 cup peanut butter, use vanilla pudding mix + chocolate chips
-Oreo: Oreo pudding mix + 1 cup chopped Oreos + 1 cup white chocolate chips + 1 cup regular chocolate chips
-Coconut: coconut pudding mix + 2 cups shredded coconut
-Banana pudding (I about died and went to heaven when I saw this one): banana pudding mix + 1 cup chopped Nilla wafers + 1 cup chopped banana chips + 1 cup white chocolate chips

Enjoy!

[EmilyPT]

[katinahat]

I'm...so going to the store today so that I can make these

[BlueJay]

Yum! I love peanut butter cups.

I love banana too but do nto see how adding the nilla wafers would make the cookies good at all.

[KickDrumHeart]

Yummm those look amazing. Definitely trying!

[skp]

Yum! I have made the chocolate chip ones before

[foreverandalways]

I'm...so going to the store today so that I can make these

You won't be disappointed if you love the chocolate + peanut butter combo!

I love banana too but do nto see how adding the nilla wafers would make the cookies good at all.

I've made cookies with chopped Oreos in them before, and they were awesome--I think it would be kind of the same texture. I lovvvvve banana pudding, so it's worth a try for me.

[maegan]

Oh my goodness. I doubled the recipe. I'm on my third dozen with no end in sight. Thank goodness I have a bunch of soldiers and gate gaurds to share with

[*Jay*]

Yum!

[rayfinkle]

YUM! Just pinned that shit.