Description
Homemade chocolate chunk pecan pudding cookies combine rich vanilla pudding mix with melted chocolate and toasted pecans for an irresistible treat. Sweet crumbly edges and gooey centers make these cookies impossible to resist.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 cup (225 g / 8 oz) unsalted butter, softened
- ¾ cup (150 g / 5.3 oz) brown sugar, packed
- ¼ cup (50 g / 1.76 oz) granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 ¼ cups (280 g / 9.88 oz) all-purpose flour
- 1 package (3.4 oz / 96 g) instant vanilla pudding mix
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 cup (175 g / 6.17 oz) chocolate chunks
- ¾ cup (90 g / 3.17 oz) chopped pecans, toasted
- 1 sprinkle sea salt flakes
Instructions
- Prep Surface: Line baking sheet with parchment paper for seamless cookie removal and preventing adhesion.
- Create Base Mixture: Cream butter with brown and granulated sugars until achieving a smooth, homogeneous consistency. Integrate vanilla pudding mix thoroughly, ensuring complete incorporation.
- Liquid Integration: Whisk eggs and vanilla extract into the mixture, transforming the batter into a light, uniform pale composition with airy texture.
- Dry Ingredient Combination: Sift flour, baking soda, and salt together to eliminate potential clumps and guarantee even ingredient distribution.
- Merge Ingredients: Gently fold dry ingredients into wet mixture, maintaining delicate batter structure and avoiding overmixing to preserve optimal cookie texture.
- Add Textural Elements: Delicately incorporate chocolate chunks and chopped pecans throughout the dough, ensuring balanced distribution of flavor-enhancing ingredients.
- Shape and Position: Portion uniform cookie dough mounds onto prepared baking sheet, spacing approximately two inches apart to accommodate natural spreading during baking.
- Bake to Perfection: Roast in preheated 350°F (175°C) oven for 10-12 minutes, achieving golden-brown edges while maintaining soft, tender centers.
- Cool and Set: Allow cookies to rest momentarily on baking sheet, then transfer to wire cooling rack for complete stabilization and final texture development.
Notes
- Butter Temperature Matters: Ensure butter is softened but not melted for optimal cookie texture and even mixing.
- Prevent Overmixing: Stir dry ingredients gently into wet ingredients to maintain a tender, soft cookie crumb and avoid tough results.
- Customize Mix-Ins: Swap chocolate chunks with white chocolate or add different nuts like walnuts for personalized flavor variations.
- Precise Baking Time: Watch cookies closely during last 2 minutes of baking to prevent overcooking, keeping centers soft and edges golden-brown.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Category: Desserts, Snacks
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 25
- Calories: 250
- Sugar: 15 g
- Sodium: 150 mg
- Fat: 14 g
- Saturated Fat: 8 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 6 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 30 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 3 g
- Cholesterol: 40 mg