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These Quadruple Chocolate Pudding Cookies have bittersweet chocolate chips, melted chocolate, chocolate pudding mix and cocoa powder! Soft, thick and chewy – chocolate cookies don’t get much better than this!!
It’s my favorite day of the year: the day when I get to stand in line for hours, and hours, and hours just to mail away my hard-earned money!
{That would all be in a sarcasm font, if my Mac were so advanced.}
There is only one thing that can make Tax Day more bearable and that is chocolate. Copious amounts of soft, fudgy chocolate. Enter Quadruple Chocolate Pudding Cookies! These are officially my new favorite chocolate cookies.
They are the richest, chocolatiest, thickest, best chocolate cookies I have ever had! Once you bite into one, your life will never be the same. Never.
Mmm hmm. After a few of these bad boys writing that check to Uncle Sam won’t seem as devastating. Miracle cookies these are.
Pudding cookies seem to be the new “It Food of 2014”. Never one to miss a cookie party, I figured I’d see what all the buzz was about by whipping up some of my own.
All I have to say is these Quadruple Chocolate Pudding Cookies are buzzworthy!
I used bittersweet chocolate chips {Ghirardelli, you know me by now!}, Hershey’s Special Dark Chocolate Pudding mix, cocoa powder AND melted chocolate! The pudding mix, melted chocolate, and brown sugar make these cookies extra moist and pushes them over the edge into Chocoholic’s Heaven!
So pudding mix in cookies?! My new favorite thing! I bought every flavor that Kroger had yesterday, so prepare yourselves to be inundated with soft, chewy cookies, bars and cakes!!!
If you want more pudding cookie inspiration, you should check out Dorothy’s Triple Chocolate Pudding Cookies and Averie’s Quadruple Chocolate Soft Fudgy Pudding Cookies! They both look amazing! Plus they are amazing, so there’s always that…
Quadruple Chocolate Pudding Cookies
Ingredients
- 4 ounces semi-sweet chocolate melted and cooled
- 1 cup unsalted butter softened
- 1 cup light brown sugar lightly packed
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 3.5 oz box instant chocolate pudding mix {I used Hershey’s Special Dark}
- ¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- ½ teaspoon coarse sea salt
- ⅔ cup bittersweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Whisk together flour, baking powder, pudding mix, cocoa powder, and salt in a medium bowl and set aside.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, add butter and sugar. Beat on medium-high speed until light and fluffy.
- Add the eggs and vanilla, beat to combine. {The mixture may look curdled at this point, which is fine.}
- Reduce the mixer speed to low and slowly add the flour mixture in several additions, mixing just until combined after each addition. Stop several times to scrape down the sides of the bowl. I did 7 total additions.
- With the mixer running, slowly pour in the melted chocolate; mix until combined. Stir in the chocolate chips.
- Refrigerate 3 hours or overnight for the thickest, chewiest cookies. I baked several without chilling, because I am impatient, and they were still thick with a fabulous texture, but they improved greatly after some refrigeration.
- Preheat oven to 350° and line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Roll into balls approximately the size of ping-pong balls, place 2 inches apart on parchment lined cookie sheets, press down slightly to flatten top.
- Bake 12 minutes in pre-heated oven. The tops should still be glossy in the middle. They won’t look “done”. Allow to cool 10 minutes on cookie sheet and then move to a wire rack to cool completely. The cookies will firm up as they cool. If you break one open while it is warm, it will be a mess. A delicious mess.
Oh, wow, another one of your recipes I must try! I think I’ll send a batch of these home with my college student son when he goes back after Easter. He and his roomies will be thrilled!
Lol! Thanks, Liz! Your chocoholic son will love them!
I don’t have a standmixer,just a hand held one. Will this do?
Yes it will work, but it is a very thick batter so prepare for your arm to get tired!!! It will all be worth it in the end! 🙂 Enjoy!
Yum they look so chocolateicious and rich. I got cookies in front of me everyday (from our bakery side and leftovers are always “take all” for staff), so there’s many cookies that I am sick of…but this is something different! Haha I’d imagine a Reese’s version of this would be heavenly too!
Poor you! On second thought, maybe I would have to work out less if I were sick of more desserts! This would be heavenly with some Reese’s mixed in! Then again, there are few desserts that wouldn’t be!!
I’d eat these cookies like chocolate was going out of business! So decadent and perfect. 🙂
lol! god I hope chocolate doesn’t go out of business! I’d cry. For days. 🙂
Now this are some awesome chocolate cookies. Ahh.. wish I’d be there.
Thanks, Ella! They definitely are! I wish I could share them with you ! All about sharing the love (and the calories)!
These look so dreamy! All I need is a glass of milk (make it a tall one!) and about a dozen of these and I’ll be in chocolate coma in no time! 😉
Haha! I think even a half-dozen would do the job!
Those cookies look so rich and chocolatey! I’m sure a cold glass of milk is practically required. I love pudding cookies and these look amazing!
Thanks, Kristine! Milk is definitely required!
Yikes — these definitely take the sting out of tax day 🙂
Definitely! Magical