Vanilla Pudding Cookies, with chocolate and peanut butter chips

I was searching for a chocolate chip cookie recipe online, and came across this one on All Recipes. Something about the idea of adding Vanilla Pudding intrigued me enough to try it out. I have a really good recipe already that I've been using for years, but wanted something a little more chewy and moist on the inside, but crispy on the outside  I think I found it.

Here is the recipe, but I changed it a little, so the ingredients I added are in bold (you can also add walnuts or pecans if you like, but I'm not a nut in my cookie kind of person).

4 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon of salt

2 teaspoons baking soda

2 cups butter, softened

1 1/2 cups packed brown sugar

1/2 cup white sugar

2 (3.4 ounce) packages instant vanilla pudding mix

4 eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

I love a nice warm center of a cookie just after it comes out of the oven in the winter time.

Take 4 1/2 cups of flour, and combine with 2 teaspoons of baking powder, 2 teaspoons of baking soda, and 1/2 a teaspoon of salt. Set it aside for later.

Make sure your butter is soft. If it's too hard, you will end up with big butter chunks in your dough, and that's not what we are going for here. You know the butter is the perfect texture when you can press your finger easily into it. You know it's too soft when you see it melting (I mean, duh).

In your mixing bowl, add 1 1/2 cups of packed brown sugar, and 1/2 cup of regular white sugar to your butter.

Mix until blended

Add two packages of instant vanilla pudding (3.4 ounces each) to the mixture as it's blending slowly until it's all combined. I added french vanilla because that's all I had, but I think it saved me from having to add more vanilla extract later. You don't taste the pudding, it just makes the cookie a little softer after it's all done.

Add two teaspoons of vanilla extract

Four eggs

Blend the eggs and the vanilla until combined (don't over blend, you aren't looking for super fluffy)

Add about a cup of chocolate chips (or two if you really like chocolate chips). For this recipe, I did 1 cup of chocolate and 1 cup of peanut butter chips. The original recipe called for 4 cups of chocolate chips, which just seems like too much for one batter to me.

As the mixer is blending your chocolate chips on low speed, start adding your flour mixture 1/2 cup at a time until all of it is combined.

This is what your batter will look like

Spoon out on to a cookie sheet. You do not have to grease the pan.

Place in the oven for about 12 minutes at 350. Use your first batch to test how long you will really need to go in the oven. In my oven, it actually took about 14 minutes to get the consistency I wanted. Other reviews of the recipe (the ones that did not add the powder or the salt) stated to go 11 minutes).

Finished Product!



I think this is my new favorite recipe.