Chocolate chip cookies with pudding are some of the best cookies! These Butterscotch Chocolate Chunk Pudding Cookies are sweet, crispy yet soft and utterly perfect!
If you love chocolate chip cookies like we do, try our Churro White Chocolate Chip Cookies too.
Chocolate Chip Cookies With Pudding
It’s no secret I am a cookie addict. If you haven’t added instant pudding to your cookies before, just wait until you try it. Such an awesome texture! Oodles of chocolate chunks and butterscotch chips, you can’t possibly go wrong with that. Hope you enjoy another great cookie recipe!
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Great Texture. This cookie has a perfect chewy texture with the pudding added to the dough. It’s a hit everytime.
- Bakes Nicely. With the pudding mix added to the cookie dough, this cookie bakes great! No flat cookies here!
- Any Occasion. These cookies are a hit at any and every occasion! From Holidays to simple family dinners….they’re great all year round.
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What You’ll Need
Here are the ingredients you’ll need to make chocolate chip cookies with pudding! See the recipe card located at the bottom of the post for full details.
- Butter– I use salted butter for my recipes. Unsalted works fine too.
- Granulated Sugar– This fine white sugar gives the cookies their sweetness.
- Brown Sugar– I use light brown sugar for these cookies.
- Eggs– For consistency, I use large eggs for my recipes.
- Vanilla– Use pure vanilla extract for best tasting results.
- All-Purpose Flour– Flour is the main dry ingredient for the cookies.
- Vanilla Instant Pudding Mix– Instant pudding adds a chewy texture to the cookies.
- Salt– I use kosher salt in the recipe.
- Baking Soda– Baking soda helps the cookies rise during baking.
- Chocolate Chunks– You can cut your own chocolate into chunks or look for chocolate chunks in the chocolate chip section.
- Butterscotch Chips– Butterscotch chips are located near the other chocolate chips in the baking isle of the grocery store.
How To Make Chocolate Chip Cookies With Pudding
Preheat Oven and Prepare Baking Sheet. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
Cream Butter and Sugars. Cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy.
Eggs and Vanilla. Add eggs and vanilla until well combined.
Dry Ingredients. Slowly add flour, baking soda, salt and pudding mix. Stir in chocolate chunks and butterscotch chips until just combined.
Scoop Dough Onto Baking Sheet. Scoop dough onto prepared baking sheet with cookie scoop about 1 inch apart.
Bake. Bake for 12-15 minutes, until baked through. Remove and let cool for 10 minutes before removing. Serve warm or room temperature.
Tips For Making The Best Cookies
- Don’t alter the recipe, use all ingredients as listed.
- For a more firm cookie, refrigerate your cookie dough for 24 hours before baking.
- Always use butter, not margarine. ALWAYS. I prefer salted butter for my chocolate chip cookies. Try it!
- Try sprinkling dough with just a touch of salt for a perfect sweet and salty combination.
- Don’t overtake your cookies. Cookies will continue to cook on hot cookie sheet when removed from oven.
- Let cookies cool completely before storing in containers. This will keep their crispness
How To Serve
Serve these pudding cookies warm or room temperature at your next party or family dinner. They’re great for any occastion.
Storage Instructions
Store any leftover cookies in an airtight container for up to 3 days room temperature or chilled in the refrigerator.
Try More Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipes
- S’mores Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Malted Oreo Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Oreo Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies
Butterscotch Chocolate Chunk Pudding Cookies
Equipment
- Oven
- parchment paper
- baking sheet
- mixing bowl or stand mixer
- measuring cups
- measuring spoons
- mixing spoon
- cookie scoop
Ingredients
- 2 sticks unsalted butter softened
- 3/4 cups granulated sugar
- 3/4 cups light brown sugar packed
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 3.4 ounce box instant vanilla pudding mix
- 1 1/2 cups chocolate chunks
- 1 1/2 cups butterscotch chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a large baking sheet with parchment paper or a silpat liner.
- Cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla until well combined. Slowly add flour, baking soda, salt and pudding mix. Stir in chocolate chunks and butterscotch chips until just combined.
- Scoop dough onto prepared baking sheet with cookie scoop about 1 inch apart. Bake for 12-15 minutes, until baked through. Remove and let cool for 10 minutes before removing. Serve warm or room temperature.
Can you add oatmeal to these? Thanks!
These cookies are the best! The first time we made them with semi-sweet mini chips instead of the butterscotch. So good. We’ve made them several times, and our current batch is the best: we used chocolate pudding, semi-sweet mini chips instead of the butterscotch – and English Toffee bits (I used Heath). Each version we make is – well, we think it’s the best cookie ever! And the cookie dough is to die for! I love all your recipes, Jenny!
Delicious! I would be tempted to just eat the cookie dough and forgo baking!
Looks very yummy 🙂 …… I never heard of putting custard powder in cookies……….will definitely try this,bookmared this recipe 🙂
Oh yummm! I love these cookies- they look amazing!
These are the best! Kevin still remembers fondly of a giant butterscotch cookie you made for him when we visited a few years ago. xoxo
My boys would go crazy for these cookies! So delicious.
Awesome flavor combo – I need these cookies!
Way to induce instant cookie cravings.
These cookies need to be in my life! They look completely amazing!!!
I. Want. These. NOW. 😉
Love pudding cookies!! These are the perfect afternoon treat!
I just love butterscotch- yum!
I adore butterscotch and these cookies look as though they’d be perfect with a glass of milk.
These cookies are just packed with goodies! Yum!
So I’ve decided that pudding mix is the secret to all of the best baked goods!!! I must try this – you know how much I love any cookie you make!
These look delicious and I just love the color of your mixer! Happy Spring.
They look glorious ones! With so much chocolates, its making the cookies so tempting.
These cookies look wonderful!!
Ooh yum! So buttery and loaded with chocolate! Love these!
I am a soft cookie lover to the core (while my husband prefers crispy) so that means I’m keeping a batch of these butterscotch beauties all to myself! 🙂
I’ve never used pudding in cookies although I’ve seen recipes which call for it. These cookies look absolutely delicious. I need to try them asap.