Pistachio Pudding Cookies with Chocolate Chips
Pistachio Pudding Cookies with Chocolate Chips
These Pistachio Pudding Cookies with Chocolate Chips are soft and so chewy! The addition of pudding mix makes these a simple and super delicious cookie.
About these cookies.
The secret ingredient in these cookies is instant pistachio pudding mix. The addition of the pudding mix is what makes them green, but pudding mixes also make cookies SO soft and SO chewy. These taste like pistachio pudding + chocolate chip cookies with a light nutty flavour.
Perfect for St. Patrick’s Day!
If you’re looking for a green dessert for St. Patrick’s Day that is delicious and easy to make, these green cookies are perfect! If you want to take these cookies to the next level, use them to make ice cream sandwiches: sandwich a scoop of pistachio ice cream between two cookies and enjoy! Also, these chewy cookies are perfect any time of the year (they’d be great for a Christmas cookies cookie exchange too)!
Pistachio Pudding Cookie Recipe Tips
- INSTANT PISTACHIO PUDDING MIX: Use a 3.6 ounce (102 gram) package of pistachio dry pudding mix…use the powder box of instant pudding mix, not prepared pudding). It’s ok if the size of the box is a little off…some boxes are 3.2 ounces, some are 3.4…all are fine.
- CHOCOLATE CHIPS: You can use semi-sweet chocolate chips, milk chocolate chips, dark chocolate chips or white chocolate chips.
- BAKING TIME: I bake my cookies for 11 minutes, which makes them perfectly soft and chewy. If you want your cookies even softer, bake them for less time (9-10 minutes), if you want them a little bit more crunchy, bake them for more (12+ minutes).
- STORAGE: Keep these cookies in an airtight container, at room temperature, to keep them soft. They should last 4-5 days if stored properly…that is if they don’t disappear more quickly than that!
- FREEZING: These cookies freeze beautifully. Store the baked cookies in an airtight ziplock freezer bag in the freezer for up to 6 months. I like to freeze half the batch of cookies for later.
- WANT THEM MORE GREEN? Feel free to add a drop or two of green food coloring if you want them to be have more green color. I didn’t add any to my cookies, and they are still green, just more light in color.
- OPTIONAL ADD-INS: If you’ve got pistachio lovers feel free to add 1/4 cup chopped pistachio nuts (unsalted pistachios are best).
Freezing Tip!
This easy recipe makes about 36 medium sized cookies so there are plenty to enjoy now, and enough to freeze for later. Most times when I bake cookies I like to freeze half of the batch so I have several different types of cookies in my freezer to enjoy.
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Pistachio Pudding Cookies with Chocolate Chips
Ingredients
- 2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 cup butter
- 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 3.6 ounce pistachio instant pudding mix
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F.
- In a bowl whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
- In a separate bowl, use a stand mixer to cream together the butter and sugars (I just use the paddle attachment). Mix until light and creamy, about 2-3 minutes.
- Then add the pistachio instant pudding mix powder to the butter/sugar. Mix until creamy.
- Add the eggs, mixing in 1 at a time.
- Mix in the vanilla.
- Add the flour mixture into the butter mixture, combine.
- Stir in the chocolate chips.
- Drop the cookie batter by the large spoonful onto a parchment paper lined baking sheet.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes (I find that 11 minutes is perfect). The bottom edges of the cookies should look golden brown.
- After baking, let the cookies sit on the cookie sheet for a couple of minutes, then transfer to a wire cooling rack to cool completely.
More St. Patrick’s Day Treats!
Simple, festive, fun.
I hope you enjoy these chewy pistachio pudding cookies as much as we do! Have a delicious day!
Very good and easy to make with my 4yr old! We added lots of green gel food coloring for fun but I’d recommend the drops instead for a deeper color. The cookies are so soft and tasty but I do wish it had a bit more of a pistachio flavor. I will absolutely be making these again though!
I’m not sure what I did but my cookies don’t look anything like the picture. I did add a small mount of food coloring and apparently I should have added more because the color is very light. Additionally my cookies spread quite a bit and I wish there was a stronger pistachio flavor. The cookies taste good just not a pistachio flavor.
Both the colour and flavour of the cookie really depends on the quality of the pudding used. If the pudding used isn’t very green or flavourful, then cookies won’t be either.
A way to get more pistachio flavor is to add a bit of chopped pistachio nuts. 😊