These delicious Christmas pudding cookies are loaded with yummy chocolate and would be perfect for a cookie exchange or bake sale!
The holiday baking season is upon us, and I’ve got a great Christmas dessert for you to add to your baking repertoire.
These chocolate peppermint pudding cookies are easy to whip up and with the added icing and peppermint sprinkled on top you’ve got a bona-fide Christmas cookie!
Do you do a big holiday baking day? Who do you give your cookies to – do you do a cookie exchange?
I think I’ll be deliver some plates to those whose work is under-appreciated this year like my mailman, trash collectors, house cleaners, and (of course) Max’s teacher. I’d love to hear who you take your baked goods to.
(go here for more easy cookie exchange recipes!)
Chocolate Pudding Cookies
I have a few essentials in my kitchen when it comes to baking, and my Silpats are fantastic. They help my pudding cookies bake perfectly even on the edges, and the cleanup is a breeze!
I also really love my cookie scoops; it totally makes the whole process so much easier.
To make the peppermint topping, I crushed peppermints while they were inside a Ziploc bag. I used a mini hammer because a rolling pin just doesn’t work well with these guys.
If you have leftover peppermint shards, make peppermint marshmallow hot chocolate sticks. They are delicious!
You’re going to make a delicious buttercream icing for these Christmas pudding cookies. And FYI – you don’t have to use the peppermint extract in the icing if you don’t want to.
It just adds to the peppermint flavor and, if you are not going to use the crushed candy canes, I recommend doing it to make the cookies actually flavored like peppermint.
BUT if you don’t love peppermint that much, you can also just substitute with vanilla extract.
I can’t tell you how much easier it is to spread icing with it in a pastry bag than with a knife, seriously it’s totally worth the extra couple minutes to pull out a pastry bag and pop the icing in there.
If you’ve never used them before just pick up a pack next time you’re at Walmart or the craft store – I prefer the disposable because then you don’t have to clean them after.
Get my tips for making and working with the buttercream icing here. You’re going to start making this icing for every cookie you eat (and every cake too!).
Chocolate Pudding Cookies
These delicious Christmas pudding cookies are loaded with yummy chocolate and peppermint. They are be perfect for a cookie exchange or bake sale!
Ingredients
Pudding Cookies
- 1 cup butter
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 4 oz instant chocolate pudding
- 2 egg(s)
- 2 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 12 oz chocolate chips
- 3 crushed candy canes, (optional)
Buttercream Icing
- 1 cup butter, (unsalted, very soft)
- 1 3/4 lb confectioners sugar
- 1/2 cup milk
- 2 teaspoons peppermint extract
Instructions
- Cream the butter and sugar, add the eggs and pudding mix, beat until smooth and creamy.
- Add the baking soda and then the flour and mix until combined.
- Mix in the chocolate chips.
- Scoop onto silpat lined baking sheet and bake at 375 for 8-10 minutes.
- While the cookies are baking, make the buttercream icing. Do this by first beating the butter (preferably with a paddle attachment on your mixer) until smooth.
- Add half the bag of powdered sugar, the milk, and the peppermint extract to the butter. Place a towel over your bowl and mix on low speed.
- Once it's all combined, add more powdered sugar until it gets to the consistency you like. If it ends up too thick, simply add more milk.
- After the cookies cool, place the icing in a pastry bag and squeeze on top of the cookies. Let set. Sprinkle crumbled candy canes on top if you like!
Notes
Recipe makes 24 - 30 cookies. Nutritional information is shown for a 24-cookie batch.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
24Serving Size:
1 cookieAmount Per Serving: Calories: 427Total Fat: 20gSaturated Fat: 13gTrans Fat: 1gUnsaturated Fat: 6gCholesterol: 57mgSodium: 204mgCarbohydrates: 62gFiber: 1gSugar: 49gProtein: 3g
Happy baking friends! I hope you enjoyed this post! If you’d like, please pop over to Handmade in the Heartland to see more of my creative projects.
I’d also love for you to visit these other seasonally appropriate cookie recipes:
- Red Velvet Thumbprint Cookies
- Old Fashioned Ginger Molasses Cookies
- 30+ Thumbprint Cookie Recipes
- Cinnamon Almond Shortbread Cookies
- Cranberry White Chocolate Cookies