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Pssst….I’m in a contest. For my Almond White Chocolate Magic Bars. If you’d like…you can vote for me…Thank you!
So, I am about to finish the third book in the Matched series by Allie Condie, Reached. It’s obsessively good, as in, reading it is all I want to do.
If you’re not familiar with the Matched series (and you should be…it’s that good), the cover of the first book has a girl inside a green globe on it. The second book, Crossed, has the girl still inside the globe, but it’s blue and her hand is breaking through. On the final book, the globe is red and she’s fully broken free from it.
Now, I rented the first book from the library, probably 6 months ago, and it went back shortly thereafter. I think I bought the second book, but I have no idea where it is, and I am now reading the third.
Why am I telling you all this? I assure you, I have a point.
The other night Jordan comes up to me while I’m reading. She points to the cover and asks, “is that a series?” and I say yes. She proceeds to tell me that, oh yeah, she remembers the other books. The one with the “girl inside the green globe” (her words) and the “second one with the blue globe, where the girl was breaking out.” Books she hasn’t looked at in months. And she remembered the covers. And taught me a lesson in the meaning of the three covers (seriously, I had not even thought twice about the parallels).
These astute memory and critical reasoning skills came from my 7 year old. The one who didn’t clear her lunch dishes for 24 hours the other day and whose 16 (different) socks I find laying about the house all day long. So…she is a genius when remembering things that have nothing to do with her…but cannot for the life of her, remember not to stack pointy hair things on the stairs where you might step on them, say, at 5am.
Weird.
What else is weird and also obsessive? My addiction to pudding cookies. I just posted some yesterday, and here I go again.
These are molasses cookies…but I pumped them up withe some butterscotch pudding. You can barely taste the butterscotch (molasses is a very strong flavor!) but it is there. These are SO good! You know what would make them even better? If you put those butterscotch chips inside the cookie. (Something I forgot to do until after they baked….oops.)
These are puffy, soft, and delicious cookies! A simple, classic Christmas cookie that has been updated to fit my pudding obsession.
Seriously, I could eat pudding cookies all day every day and die a happy girl!
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/3 cup molasses
- 2 boxes butterscotch instant pudding (3.5 ounces)
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 2 1/2 cups flour
- 1 cup butterscotch chips (not pictured, but would be SO good!)
- Additional sugar for rolling, if desired
Instructions
- Cream butter and sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Add molasses and mix until mixture is smooth. Add pudding mix and blend until combined.. Add eggs and vanilla and beat until combined. Mix in baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and flour. Stir in butterscotch chips, if desired. Chill dough for at least 30 minutes (a few hours is preferable).
- When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper. Place about 1/2 cup sugar in a small bowl for rolling, if desired. (Cookies will be a little crunchy on the outside with the sugar, if you use it.)
- Scoop one tablespoon balls of dough and roll in sugar, or just place on cookie sheet. Bake 7-9 minutes until bottoms just begin to get golden. Cool for 5 minutes before moving to a rack to cool completely. Cookies can be frozen for later consumption, if desired. Place in a ziploc bag between layers of paper towel for best results when freezing.
Notes
Important: do not use sugar-free pudding for this recipe. It creates a crumbly dough that doesn't come together properly. Use regular (instant) pudding mix.
Here are some of my other favorite pudding cookies:
Almond Pudding Cookies with Brown Sugar Frosting
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Hi there! I’m Dorothy, the crazy gal behind the blog. If you didn’t already know, I’m crazy for crust…and cookies…and brownies…and pretty much
anything with sugar.
I love that you are as addicted to pudding cookies as I am:-) These look awesome…great photos! I want to reach right into my computer and grab one! Thanks for the link love too!
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Thanks Jocelyn! I’m soo addicted!
I tried this recipe today and they did not look like the photo.They did not spread out. I used 7 boxes of 1 oz pudding dry mix instead of two 3.5 oz boxes. The dough was very dry and crumbly. I can’t figure out what went wrong…Any ideas? Is the written recipe correct? Thank you.
Karen A.
Hahaha astute little Jordan! And I need to read those books if ya say they’re so good. I am desperate for a new series! (do you hear me, Ellen Hopkins? Desperate!)
Love these cookies!
Hayley @ The Domestic Rebel recently posted..Christmas Swirl Sugar Cookies
I know, she needs to come out with another one! It really is that good!
Pudding cookies are pretty much awesome! And I have a jar of molasses that I need to use up…so, this recipe came at just the right time.
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Some of my fave flavors all rolled into one. Chewy soft molasses cookies AND butterscotch. Been such a fan of both lately – and your cookies look so soft and puffy!!
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My favorites too lately. Thanks Averie!
I love how chubby these cookies are! I have made 3 different molasses recipes this month…my daughter and husband loooooove them. Yours look so perfect. I will have to try these next!
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I hope you like them! I love molasses cookies. Can I come to your house??
I’m new to pudding cookies and I’m falling fast in love (have only made two kinds so far). I love butterscotch though, so these would be right up my alley!!!
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Catch up woman!
LOL
its a good thing we aren’t neighbors, I would be in a sugar coma! I LOVE butterscotch, (almost as much as peppermint) and those lemon ones sound amazing too! Maybe I like too many categories of sugar??LOL!
Well, we kinda are neighbors.
I should just give you trays of stuff when the boys are over!
But I probably wouldn’t share! lol
You and me both are having serious obsessions with pudding cookies lately. I just can’t get enough! The results are always so soft and chewy. And you can make so many different flavors and add different mix-ins. I love that you added butterscotch pudding to these molasses cookies. Brilliant!
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Wow, you really love you some pudding cookies! I think I’ve only made pudding cookies once when I added some vanilla pudding to chocolate chip cookies. I must say it did make them a bajillion times better. Apparently, I need to make more pudding cookies!
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Yes, yes you do!
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1. I’m a little ashamed to admit that I have yet to make or eat a pudding cookie. But it’s happening. Soon.
2. I needed a new series after finishing the last one that I’m too ashamed to admit I read. : )
3. I just voted for you. : )
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Thank you!!! And yes, you must try pudding cookies. SOO good.
I am SO behind on the pudding cookie craze – I guess I need to stock up of the jello
congrats on moving onto round two!!
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I remember those lemon pudding cookies which I used in my version. I love butterscotch pudding and molasses cookies, so a win-win in the cookie category.
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Could i use vanilla pudding to make them like regular traditonal chewy mollasses cookies? or should i use another flavor? (Im not into buterscotch)
Molasses and butterscotch in a chewy cookie? mmmm Yes yes yes!!
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These look great–I can’t wait to try them out! PS – I found you on the TidyMom I’m Loving It link party.
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yummy and delicious looking butterscotch molasses pudding cookies. i love them to eat with a cup of tea. sounds good to read the ingredients and instructions in order to prepare it in a better way. thanks for sharing…
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OK I am seriously making some pudding cookies this week! I have done cake mix cookies to death ( don’t get me wrong I love them) I really want to try these! Thanks for Linking up at Show Me Your Plaid Monday’s!
You must! The variations are endless, much like cake mix cookies.
Yum all of these cookies sound amazing!
Thanks Jen!
I have not heard of that series but I will check it out! These cookies sound sooo good!
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That is some serious holiday yumminess!
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I have never tried pudding cookies before. These look amazing – I can almost taste them!
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Oh, you must. They are SO good, every flavor!
How yummy! I have to add these to my “must try” list!! They look soooo good!! Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks so much!
I found you and this recipe on Pinterest and made these cookies for a New Year’s Eve party I attended. I have never gotten so many compliments on a cookie before! There were several desserts at the party and these were devoured almost immediately while the rest just sat there. My husband was so disappointed that I didn’t have any leftover to bring home! He is already begging me to make some more.
I’m so glad you liked them! Yay!