Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies made with pudding mix, mint extract & chocolate chips. Lovely cookie recipe perfect for those who love mint chip ice cream!

Mint Chocolate Pudding Cookies are great for anyone who love the mint-chocolate combination. The addition of pudding yields a soft cookie with wonderful texture. Perfect for the holiday Christmas cookie exchanges! The dough really does look just like mint chip ice cream and the flavors meld together into a delightful baked cookie.

I’m a huge fan of the chocolate – mint combination and with the holidays coming up, well this is the perfect time to make them! The result is Andes mints in cookie form- they’ve got wonderful flavor and a lovely, soft texture.

How to make Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies

My Mint Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe begins as a lovely chocolate chip pudding cookie dough, with the addition of mint extract! You’ll start by creaming together the butter and sugar with an electric mixer. Then add the egg, sour cream and dry pudding mix. You can use plain yogurt instead of sour cream if you’d like! In a separate bowl, combine the dry ingredients and give them a little whisk to incorporate the salt. Then add the dry ingredients to the butter mixture.

Next add in the mint extract and green food coloring, if you’d like your cookies to be green. It’s not necessary of course, but it’s fun and festive for Christmas or even St. Patrick’s Day. Finally, you’ll want to add in the chocolate chips. I like semi sweet and for these cookies, I added a combination of regular chocolate chips and chocolate chunks. Yum!

Bake the cookies for 10 minutes, then let them cool for a minute or two on the cookie sheet before transferring them to a cooling rack. Enjoy these delicious cookies that are reminiscent of mint chocolate chip ice cream!

Tips to get the PERFECT Pudding Cookies:

Three kitchen items make these cookies come together really fast. I actually use these items in nearly every cookie recipe I make, so they’re quite versatile. First, I line my cookie sheets with a piece of parchment paper. They’re sold in sizes that fit a 12×16 cookie sheet perfectly and enable to cookies to bake well without sticking- and no mess from spraying oil on the cookie sheets!

The second item is a KitchenAid mixer. I love mine! I have a Bosch as well but I find I use my KitchenAid for cookies. There is a cookie paddle that comes with every mixer that you attach to the top of the mixer. They’re easy to use and help you mix the ingredients uniformly. I also use the metal whisk attachment in this recipe to make the frosting. It whips it up super fast! Add this to your wish list because it’s one of my all-time used small appliances ever!

The third item is a cookie scoop! Years and years ago I used to use 2 spoons to measure and scrape cookie dough onto the pans. It wasn’t a perfect process and I often ended up with oblong cookies in various sizes. A friend of mine brought cookies to a party and I noticed each and every one of her cookies looked PERFECT. Her secret? A cookie scoop! They come in three sizes- 1/2 tablespoon, 1.5 tablespoon and 3 tablespoon scoops. I used the middle size- 1.5 tablespoon for these, and most other cookies. (Although when I’m serving a large crowd, I use the small cookie scoop. People love having a smaller cookie, especially at an event with several other desserts.)

Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe ingredients

• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup butter, softened (1 stick)
• 1 egg
• 1/2 cup sour cream (or plain yogurt)
• 1 small box instant vanilla pudding mix (3.4 oz)
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 tsp mint extract
• 3 drops blue coloring + 10-15 drops green coloring
• 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips*

Directions for making Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies

1. Cream together sugar and butter. Add egg, sour cream and pudding mix.
2. In a small bowl, combine flour, salt & baking soda.
3. Incorporate flour mixture into the pudding mixture and mix until well combined.  Add mint extract and food coloring until desired color is achieved.
4. Add in chocolate chips. *I used 3/4 cup chocolate chunks, 3/4 cup regular chocolate chips and 1/2 cup Andes baking bits. Any combination is wonderful, but note that while the Andes mint baking pieces add an incredible flavor, they kind of disappear in the cookies. So add them in addition to the 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips, if you opt to put them in!
5. Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls onto greased cookie sheet.
6. Bake at 375 for 10 minutes. Transfer to a cooling rack and enjoy! Yields 3 dozen cookies.

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MINT CHOCOLATE PUDDING COOKIES

Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies made with pudding mix, mint extract & chocolate chips. Lovely cookie recipe perfect for those who love mint chip ice cream!

Course: Cookies, Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: mint chocolate chip cookies

Servings: 3 dozen

Author: Butter With A Side of Bread

Ingredients

• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup butter softened (1 stick)
• 1 egg
• 1/2 cup sour cream
• 1 small box instant vanilla pudding mix 3.4 oz
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 tsp mint extract
• 3 drops blue coloring + 10-15 drops green coloring
• 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips*

Instructions

1. Cream together sugar and butter. Add egg, sour cream and pudding mix. In a small bowl, combine flour, salt & baking soda. Incorporate flour mixture into the pudding mixture and mix until well combined. Add mint extract and food coloring until desired color is achieved.

2. Add in chocolate chips. *I used 3/4 cup chocolate chunks, 3/4 cup regular chocolate chips and 1/2 cup Andes baking bits. Any combination is wonderful, but note that while the Andes mint baking pieces add an incredible flavor, they kind of disappear in the cookies. So add them in addition to the 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips, if you opt to put them in!

3. Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls onto greased cookie sheet.

4. Bake at 375 for 10 minutes. Transfer to a cooling rack and enjoy!

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Mint Chocolate Pudding Cookies made with pudding mix, mint extract & chocolate chips. Lovely cookie recipe perfect for those who love mint chip ice cream!

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