Santa's Chocolate Chip Cookies
Soft and chewy chocolate chip cookies with holiday M&M's, white chocolate chips and vanilla pudding mix. They will be Santa's new favorite.
Ingredients
- ½ stick butter
- ⅓ cup brown sugar
- ¼ cup sugar
- ¼ tablespoon vanilla extract
- ½ egg
- ½ box vanilla pudding mix just the powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ⅓ cup chocolate chips
- ½ cup white chocolate chips
- ¼ cup M&M's Holiday (red and green)
Instructions
Making the dough
- In bowl, beat butter, sugar & brown sugar together until fluffy.
- Add egg and vanilla. Beat well.
- Add in flour, pudding powder mix, baking soda and salt. Slowly stir first and beat until all ingredients are completely incorporated.
- Slowly stir in chocolate chips.
- Fold in ½ the M&M’s.
- Cover and refrigerate the dough overnight. (Do not skip this step. It is the reason these cookies are thick and full).
Making the cookies
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Roll the dough into balls. The dough it will be firm.
- Place the balls on the prepared baking sheet and bake cookies for 9-12 minutes.
- Remove and immediately top each cookie with a few white chocolate chips and M&M’s before they cool.
- Leave cookies to cool on the baking sheet.