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Easy Almond Joy Cookies made with coconut pudding mix and Almond Joy candy bars are soft pudding cookies that are so easy to make. If you’re a coconut fan, you are going to love these easy pudding cookies!
Fun fact: I love to stand in the pudding mix aisle at the store and brainstorm pudding cookie ideas. Am I alone in this? Sometimes I get so absorbed I don’t even realize when someone is hovering behind me trying to grab what they need. Oops. I can’t help it! I love coming up with new pudding cookie recipes, and today? Today it’s Almond Joy pudding cookies!
These sweet morsels are a combination of coconut pudding and mini Almond Joys – a combination you will love if you’re like me. Am I the only one who nabs Almond Joys from their kid’s trick-or-treat bag? Guilty as charged.
So, when I saw instant coconut pudding mix at the store… well, a plan came together.
Why We Love These Almond Joy Pudding Cookies
- Coconut and chocolate candy bars baked into a cookie. There’s a lot to love about that!
- I used my basic pudding cookie recipe as the inspiration because it’s super easy and can be adapted in so many ways.
- This is a NO CHILL cookie dough. Just mix, roll, and bake!
- The cookies are soft from the pudding mix and stay soft for several days – if they last that long! We love them warm from the oven and don’t always have leftovers.
If your or someone you know loves coconut, this recipe needs to be on your list. You will love how easy it is.
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Ingredients
- All-purpose flour: Be sure to measure it correctly.
- Baking soda: I always use baking soda in cookies.
- Butter: Use softened unsalted butter. Learn to soften butter quickly!
- Sugar: This recipe uses both granulated and brown sugar.
- Pudding Mix: I used Instant coconut cream pudding mix but you can substitute vanilla pudding mix and add 1/2 teaspoon coconut extract in it’s place.
- Eggs: Be sure to use large eggs.
- Vanilla extract: You can also add coconut extract.
- Chopped Mini Almond Joy candy bars
How to Make Cookies with Almond Joy Candy Bars
1. Dry ingredients: Whisk the flour and baking soda in a medium-sized bowl.
2. Cream: In a large bowl, cream the butter and both kinds of sugars. Add the pudding mix and beat until well mixed.
3. Mix: Mix in the eggs and vanilla and then slowly add the flour mixture and mix until just combined. Stir in the chopped candy bars.
4. Bake: Roll the cookie dough into one-inch balls and place them on a prepared cookie sheet. Bake them for 10 to 12 minutes at 350°F. Cool them on the sheet for a few minutes before serving.
No chilling needed!
Recipe Tips
- Be sure to buy Instant pudding mix for this recipe. You don’t need to prepare the pudding – you just mix the powder mix right into the cookie dough.
- Substitutions: if you can’t find coconut pudding mix use vanilla and add 1/2 teaspoon coconut extract.
- Storing and Freezing Almond Joy Cookies: If you have leftover cookies (something that doesn’t happen when I make these!), you can store them in an airtight container for several days. You can also freeze them.
- Variations: What’s fun about this recipe is that it’s totally customizable. You can take the base recipe and swap the coconut pudding and Almond Joys for other flavors. Think chocolate pudding with chopped Hershey bars, peanut butter pudding with chopped peanut butter cups, butterscotch pudding with chopped Heath bars… you get the idea!
I might be biased, but everyone needs a great Almond Joy cookie recipe! This one is it for me – soft, sweet, impossible to resist. I know you will love them, too!
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Almond Joy Pudding Cookies
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup (170g) unsalted butter, softened
- ¾ cup (150g) packed brown sugar
- ¼ cup (50g) granulated sugar
- 1 3.4 oz package instant coconut cream pudding mix
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 2 1/4 cups (280g) all-purpose flour
- 18 mini Almond Joy candy bars chopped
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper and set aside.
- Whisk together baking soda and flour and set aside.
- Cream together butter and sugars. Add the pudding package and beat until well blended. Add eggs and vanilla extract. Slowly add the flour and mix until just combined. Stir in chopped almond joy candies.
- Roll into 1” balls and place on your cookie sheets. Bake for 10-12 minutes. Cool slightly before devouring.
Recipe Notes
- If you can’t find the coconut pudding use vanilla instant pudding mix and add 1/2 teaspoon coconut extract.
Recipe Nutrition
These Almond Joy Pudding Cookies are one of my absolute favorite recipes. They are so easy to make and the perfect use of any leftover candy!
Last Updated on May 23, 2021
Oh my gosh! Yay, yay, yay!! I LOOOOOVE almond joys. And I love themed dessert weeks!!!!
YOU’RE KILLING ME WITH THESE PUDDING COOKIES! My best friend and I just made the brown sugar almond ones and I can’t make myself stop eating them. 😀
Lol! I’m glad you liked those! Pudding cookies rock.
I’m completely crazy for coconut. Drooling over your cookies.
Yumm-o!! Those look so good! I bet they were super soft and chewy! Wow!
Just one more reason I love you girl!!! I put coconut in almost everything I make too…LOVE the stuff!!! And it’s true your tastes change because my kids wouldn’t eat anything if it had coconut in it. But now that I have been baking with it so much, they actually like it…just not plain. Wait I take that back. My daughter loves plain toasted coconut. Haha!! I won in the coconut department!! Now if only I had a batch of these awesome cookies to celebrate with. Love Almond Joy week!!!
Almond Joys are one of my favorite candy bars and putting them in a pudding cookie is an amazing idea.
Yay, thanks for the shoutout!! You and I were SO meant to be best friends, I swear. It’s a miracle we live a minute away because if not, I would be seriously depressed. And I am SO happy I actually got to try these because I can attest, people–they are SO GOOD. My brother and I fought viciously over the last cookie and I won, but having two made me feel like I was eating Almond Joys; seriously addictive and you cannot stop in the single digits. I want more and thankfully now I have the recipe 🙂
Aw, you’re sweet Hayley! And I’m super glad we’re so close too ‘cuz then I get to eat your delicious stuff too!
I’m exactly the same way between almond joys and reeses! 🙂 ! I can’t wait to try these!
Sure that wasn’t love at first bite? lol
Mom :}
You’re a gal after my own heart! I could put coconut in EVERYTHING!
We’re coconut sisters! 🙂
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