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These Oatmeal Pudding Cookies are made with oats and instant pudding mix to add a ton of flavor as well as enhance the soft and chewy texture! These cookies are so easy to make and they stay soft for DAYS!
Easy Oatmeal Pudding Cookies
Cookie recipes like this one are so of my favorite because they are pudding cookies! This recipe uses instant pudding mix which adds flavor and softness to a cookie recipe. You can use any flavor pudding mix but I prefer using vanilla, white chocolate, or cheesecake flavor pudding to fit this recipe the best. Instant pudding makes for a softer cookie with a great texture. I am a big fan of them and you will be too!
I have lots of favorite oatmeal cookie recipes but this one is such a classic – it tastes like the ones you get at the store but better – and softer. Plus you can freeze them and add any kinds of chocolate chips. These have a wonderful nice flavor and are crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. You’re going to love this cookie recipe!
Ingredients Needed
- Butter: Always make sure it’s softened butter. I always use unsalted butter!
- Sugars: You’ll want a combination of Light Brown Sugar and Granulated Sugar (white sugar)
- Instant Vanilla Pudding Mix: Be sure to use INSTANT not cook ‘n serve pudding mix. I have not tested this recipe with sugar free pudding, so use regular.
- Oats: Need oats for an amazing oatmeal cookies; I used quick cooking oats. If you only have rolled oats (old fashioned oats) you can make your own quick oats!
- Regular and White Chocolate Chips: You can really use any kind of chocolate chip that you’d like!
How to make Oatmeal Pudding Cookies
- Mix all purpose flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt in a medium bowl. Set the flour mixture aside.
- In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment (or a large bowl with a hand mixer), combine butter and sugars until creamy. Add pudding and mix until combined. Add the large eggs and vanilla and beat well.
- Add the dry ingredients to the sugar mixture and mix until combined. Stir in the oats and chips.
- Drop cookie dough balls by tablespoonfuls onto your prepared baking sheets. I like to use a 2 tablespoon sized ice cream scoop for this so the cookies will all be the same size. I pressed 2-3 chips on the top of the cookies, for presentation. This is optional!
- Bake about 9-11 minutes or until light golden brown around the edges and no longer glossy. Cool five minutes and then remove to a wire rack to cool completely.
Expert Tip
- Chocolate chips are a staple in this recipe, but you can substitute them for 1 cup raisins and make the best oatmeal raisin cookies you’ve ever eaten!
- With pudding cookies it’s always important to remember that you are not adding prepared pudding. Always add the dry powder straight from the package.
- Store these in an airtight container for up to a week. Store extras in the freezer for up to 3 months.
FAQs
You can freeze them! Freeze them in an airtight container for up to 3 months.
Oatmeal Pudding Cookies Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup (226g) unsalted butter , softened
- 1 cup (200g) packed brown sugar
- ½ cup (100g) granulated sugar
- 1 package (3.4-3.9 ounce size) instant vanilla pudding mix (see note)
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 ½ cups (186g) flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 3 cups (240g) quick cooking oats
- 1 cup (170g) chocolate chips (see note)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°. Line your baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Mix flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt in a medium bowl. Set aside.
- In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the butter and sugars until creamy. Add pudding and mix until combined. Add the eggs and vanilla and beat well. Add the dry ingredients and mix until combined. Stir in the oats and chips.
- Drop by tablespoonfuls onto your prepared baking sheets. I like to use a 2 tablespoon sized ice cream scoop for this so the cookies will all be the same size. I pressed 2-3 chips on the top of the cookies, for presentation. This is optional!
- Bake 10-12 minutes. Cool five minutes and then remove from pan to cool completely.
Recipe Notes
- Be sure to use instant pudding mix, not cook ‘n serve. This recipe has not been tested with sugar-free pudding. Use a regular 3.4-3.9 ounce box of instant pudding, the mix not the pudding.
- You can use vanilla, cheesecake, or white chocolate flavor pudding mix.
- Add in up to 1 cup any kind of chocolate chips or white chocolate, or use raisins or nuts.
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Last Updated on February 19, 2024
I am also obsessed with pudding cookies and regularly use Chef In Training’s pudding cookies as the basis for my flavor experiments. I had been wondering about an oatmeal chocolate chip cookie recipe and I stumbled on this. I made mine with Old Fashion Oats and lots of milk chocolate and white chocolate chips. My husband and daughter LOVE them! Thanks!
Thanks Amanda!! I’m glad you liked them!
I was shopping for the ingredients for this, and the only White Chocolate Instant Pudding I could find was the “Fat Free” one, the sugar free one, would that work too??
Thanks!
the box I have is a 32g (4 serving). I’m from Canada! 🙂
Thank you so so much for the cookies. They were the first I received and I was so excited! The BF waited patiently for me to get home before we tore open the box and devoured half. 🙂 And you extra little surprise (was that matzoh toffee??) was delicious as well. Definitely did not last long in this house. So excited to read more of your blog!
The swirl chips make these cookies so pretty! And is it weird that I’ve never seen white chocolate pudding mix? I swear, my grocery store hates me. STILL looking for gingerbread Oreos (there isn’t a Walmart near me and I’m hoping somewhere/ANYWHERE else decides to carry them). Let’s hope I don’t have as much trouble finding white chocolate pudding mix, because that sounds delish!
Really????? Um, your store is weird. LOL
Dorothy, these look so yummy! I love the swirly chips too 🙂 Oh, and I eat a dozen cookies or so on a daily basis. Is that not normal?!
I love all flavors of cookies, but a good oatmeal cookie always tops my list. These look soooo good. And I hear you on the food baby–I’d successfully lost quite a bit of weight–then started my blog. Things have been downhill ever since. I have to sample the product, for quality-control, right??
Totally. Wouldn’t want to kill anyone! LOL
These sound SO good!! We were on the same page with the pudding cookies apparently 🙂
Thanks Taylor!
Oh I wish you had my name, these look delicious. It’s funny how the pudding mix makes cookies so good, I just made some recently as well.
I love your packaging as well., so cute.
Ha, thanks!!! 🙂
Thank you for the cookies! These were delicious!
I’m glad you liked them!
i love those swirled chips Dorothy! I’ve seen them once or twice but have never bought them for a recipe. And oatmeal cookies are my favorite kind of cookie. 🙂 The pudding addition is wonderful – white chocolate flavor is one of my very favorites. 🙂
Thanks Sally! I picked them up on a whim one day, they look so pretty. 🙂
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