Christmas Pudding Cookies Recipe
Prep time: 15 Mins
Cook time: 12 Mins
Yields: 24 Cookies Per Each Pudding Mix
A very simple recipe to bake tasty cookies using instant pudding mixes. These pudding cookies have a "melt in your mouth" texture.
Ingredients
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven at 375F/190C for 15 minutes.
  2. In a small mixing bowl, cream butter and pudding mix until smooth. I used a hand held electric mixer.
  3. Gradually beat in flour.
  4. Fold in pecans.
  5. Grease a tablespoon with non stick cooking spray.
  6. Take a tablespoonful of dough and drop it on the baking sheet 2 inch apart.
  7. Flatten the dough using your fingers.
  8. Bake it for 10-13 minutes or until light golden brown. Mine were perfectly done at 11 minutes.
  9. Remove it from the oven and let it cool on the baking sheet itself for 5 minutes.
  10. Then transfer it to a wire cooling rack and let it cool completely before storing it in an airtight container.
My Notes:
  1. Toast the nuts before adding it to the dough. This will give a nice crunch to the cookies. Toast the nuts in the oven while it is preheating.
  2. Shaping the dough into balls and then flattening it with my palm. For this I first dropped tablespoonful of dough on the baking sheets. Then I greased my hands by with little butter (from the butter wrapper) and then rolled each into ball and then flattened it by pressing it with my palm. So this time I got beautiful round cookies for all the batches. Last time I just dropped a tablespoonful of dough and used a fork to press it down.
  3. The above measurement yields exactly 2 dozen cookies. I used 2 large baking sheets for each dozen and baked it one batch at a time. You can also bake both at the same time with one sheet on the middle rack and the other one on the bottom rack. If you decide to bake both batches at the same time, be sure to switch the baking sheets half way through. That is, once it’s baked for 5 minutes, move the top rack sheet to the bottom and the bottom rack sheet to the top to ensure even baking.
  4. Using the same method, bake a batch of French Vanilla cookies, using instant french vanilla pudding mix and semi-sweet chocolate chips instead of nuts.
Recipe by Madhuram's Eggless Cooking at https://www.egglesscooking.com/eggless-pudding-cookies/