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These lemon pudding cookies are so soft and chewy they practically melt in your mouth! The pudding mix brings the extra chewiness and the combination of lemon zest, lemon juice and lemon pudding mix gives them the perfect lemon flavor!!
We are doing something new and exciting today! Obviously it isn’t these Lemon Pudding Cookies because we all know I have had a recent obsession with both pudding cookies AND lemon!
It’s my very first guest post! Hooray!
Today I’m guest posting over at The Cooking Actress while the fabulous Kayle makes the big move from NYC to Cleveland and whips her new townhouse into shape!
You are absolutely going to LOVE these soft, chewy lemon pudding cookies! They will practically melt in your mouth and are bursting with lemon flavor, so make sure you check out the full post there!
Lemon Pudding Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter softened
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 3.4 oz lemon pudding mix
- 2 eggs
- 2 tablespoons lemon zest 2 lemons, but only use the dark yellow part!
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
Instructions
- Whisk together flour, baking soda, pudding mix and salt in a medium bowl and set aside.
- Cream together butter and sugar in the bowl of an electric stand mixer with the paddle attachment until light and fluffy. Add eggs, lemon zest, and lemon juice, and beat until well combined.
- Slowly add the flour mixture, beating until just combined after each addition.
- Refrigerate dough at least 4 hours. To achieve the height of the cookies pictured, I actually rolled them into 1-inch balls, froze the dough balls for approximately 20 minutes and then baked them.
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. Bake 8-10 minutes or until the edges have started to lightly brown and the tops are set. [If you freeze the dough it will take several more minutes to cook –just watch them!]
Hi! Can you tell me if the pudding is instant or the cooked kind?
Hi Julie! I believe it was the cooked kind but I think the instant would work just as well. Happy baking!
Hello, just wondering how many cookies one batch will yield
I made about 18 but I got lazy and started making them larger. If you made 1″ balls, it should make about 2 dozen.