Earlier I had baked eggless butter pecan pudding cookies using instant butterscotch pudding mix, which was a big hit. These pudding mix cookies are very easy to put together and taste very good.
You don't need eggs, baking soda, baking powder or sugar. This pudding cookie recipe calls for only 3 ingredients (nuts optional) butter, pudding mix and flour you can bake these easy pudding cookies in no time.
If you are interested in baking but have not baked before this is "the recipe" you should try. Nothing can go wrong and I guarantee that everybody who tastes these cookies will be asking you for the recipe.
Christmas is nearing and I've decided to bake goodies and give it to the people in my community, like the firefighters, ER workers, librarians, postmen, etc. So I'm thinking of trying this pudding cookies recipe in 3 different flavors, create an assorted pudding mix cookies tray and gift it to them.
This time around I tried to bake these cookies using pistachio and French vanilla pudding mix. Simply follow the butter pecan pudding cookies recipe and substitute the butterscotch pudding mix with pistachio pudding mix for 1 batch and french vanilla pudding mix for another batch.
For the pistachio pudding cookies mix in coarsely chopped pistachios and semi-sweet chocolate chips for the vanilla pudding mix cookies.
For a Christmas themed eggless pudding cookies, you can add red, green and white sprinkles in the French vanilla flavor or even crushed peppermints. Chocolate pudding mix will also make very good pudding cookies. I have tried that too.
Of all the flavors of instant pudding cookies without eggs I have baked so far the butterscotch pudding cookies and pistachio pudding cookies are my most favorite.
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Recipe
Christmas Pudding Cookies
Ingredients
- ¾ Cup Butter Softened
- 3.4 Oz Instant Pistachio Pudding Mix 1 Package
- 1 and ¼ Cups All-Purpose Flour
- ½ Cup Pistachios Toasted and Chopped
Instructions
- Preheat oven at 375F/190C for 15 minutes.
- In a small mixing bowl, cream butter and pudding mix until smooth. I used a hand held electric mixer.
- Gradually beat in flour.
- Fold in pistachios.
- Grease a tablespoon with non stick cooking spray.
- Take a tablespoonful of dough and drop it on the baking sheet 2 inch apart.
- Flatten the dough using your fingers.
- Bake it for 10-13 minutes or until light golden brown. Mine were perfectly done at 11 minutes.
- Remove it from the oven and let it cool on the baking sheet itself for 5 minutes.
- Then transfer it to a wire cooling rack and let it cool completely before storing it in an airtight container.
My Notes
- Toast the nuts before adding it to the dough. This will give a nice crunch to the cookies. Toast the nuts in the oven while it is preheating.
- Shaping the dough into balls and then flattening it with my palm. For this I first dropped tablespoonful of dough on the baking sheets. Then I greased my hands by with little butter (from the butter wrapper) and then rolled each into ball and then flattened it by pressing it with my palm. So this time I got beautiful round cookies for all the batches. Last time I just dropped a tablespoonful of dough and used a fork to press it down.
- The above measurement yields exactly 2 dozen cookies. I used 2 large baking sheets for each dozen and baked it one batch at a time. You can also bake both at the same time with one sheet on the middle rack and the other one on the bottom rack. If you decide to bake both batches at the same time, be sure to switch the baking sheets half way through. That is, once it’s baked for 5 minutes, move the top rack sheet to the bottom and the bottom rack sheet to the top to ensure even baking.
- Using the same method, bake a batch of French Vanilla cookies, using instant French vanilla pudding mix and semi-sweet chocolate chips instead of nuts.
rachita says
Hi Madhu,
I stumbled upon your website looking for eggless cake recipes and eversince then, my day doesn't go without looking at your website. I tried your chocolate cake, beetroot recipes, kootu...everything turned out fabulous. I would certainly try these cookies. They are so simple and look delicious. You are a great inspiration. You have turned my cooking seem like a hobby rather than a mere chore.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS
Thats the best thing anybody has ever said to me Rachita. You have made my day. Thank you very much. Happy Holidays to you and your family too.
Soma says
Beautiful Pictures!
happy holidays to you!
Lakshmi says
Hi Madhuram,
I decided to look at your blog to bake something for Christmas, and what a good decision 🙂 Thanks so much for sharing the receipe. I am definitely going to try baking these cookies.
Do you happen to have a tried method for baking eggless christmas cake also? Please do let me know, I am going to give it a shot based on my own assumptions/substitutions. But if you have tried something, I would rather follow your method 🙂 Happy holidays to you and your family,
Lakshmi
You should try these cookies Lakshmi. As for the christmas cake, even I've been looking for one. If you don't find one, I think you can probably follow the Carrot cake with bananas recipe, add few more dried fruits (that cake uses only raisins) and various nuts (as against only walnuts in that cake). Happy holidays to you too.
Uma says
this is such a nice gesture Madhu! And those are some lovely cookies. Nice assortment.
Thanks Uma.
Lubna Karim says
Wow yummy and looks melt in mouth cookies. 😛
Yes it is Lubna.
rekha says
hummm I made the same after reading your pudding mix cookie recipe yes they are superb and abig hit too I used chocolate jello puding mix with peacans they are so so yummy Thanks alot for the idea I will post the recipe
That was very quick Rekha. Thanks for trying it out. Actually I also wanted to try the chocolate variation, but I did not get it in the store that day.
Bharti says
That's so sweet of you Madhuram to think of all the people in the community. Nice gesture...and cookies look wonderful.
Thanks Bharti.
RedChillies says
These are my style of cookies, in which minimum ingredients, no egg is involved. I am bookmarking this to try over the weekend.
Also, I have armed myself with beetroot and intend to try beet pasta this upcoming holiday. Keeping my fingers crossed. Wish me luck 🙂
RC, you should try it, it's so good, but I have to agree that it uses a lot of butter. Hope your little one likes the pasta.
sowmya says
they look superb..
anudivya says
Totally understand why you did not experiment on this one... and I forgot to mention how sweet of you it was to give away those cookies to others!
I am making these and planning to gorge on them all by myself 😈 , sorry good cookies are my weakness! 🙂
My comfort food says
Hi there!
I love baking and I thoroughly enjoy baking cookies, pies, biscuits, cakes etc. I recently found out that my son is allergic to eggs and all tree nuts(along with a list of other things). My baking has come to a complete stop. Your website is fantastic, and I am amazed to how many things you have baked without eggs. These cookies look great. I will try them as I have volunteered to bake some cookies for santa. 😀
Thank you very much. I bet Santa would love it.
Mansi says
The platter of cookies looks absolutely delightful madhu! wish you and your family a very Happy Holiday seaosn too! 🙂
Usha says
Lovely gesture and awesome cookies, I just loved these cookies and the idea of using pudding mix in them, I am sure I will try these, have bookmarked the recipe 🙂
Usha, you should try these cookies, they crumble in your mouth.
Sweatha says
Perfect cookie tray,Madhu.I too am on a cookie spree and sometimes I do not know what to do with many varieties.Love to have these though.Perfect and perfect.
Thank you very much Sweatha. Happy holidays.
mahimaa says
perfect and cute looking cookies.it is awesome to use pudding mix in cookies.. never thought of that. pic is tempting as usual.
It's so simple Mahimaa. I found the recipe in Taste of Home magazine.
anudivya says
That was pretty simple... I am thinking of making these with whole wheat flour and less butter. I wonder how that is gonna turn out... It is too simple and easy to pass, great recipe madhuram.
I also thought of reducing the butter, I guess it would be little hard. I didn't do it because I didn't want to mess up when I was going to gift it to somebody else.
Laksh says
Looks yummilicious! Where is my batch?? 😀
Kudos to S on the pics. Happy Holidays to all of you.
Thanks Laksh. We should have a potluck one of these days.
Sunshinemom says
The variations look great! Just wish I was at the receiving end 🙁
Thanks SM. Happy holidays.
Anonymous says
Where are the recipes? How am I supposed to do this without a recipe? I don't feel like I should hunt around a website for it.
I guess you overlooked the first and the third paragraph, where I have mentioned eggless butter pecan cookies with the link to the recipe, click the highlighted words for the recipe. Since it's the same recipe, I don't see the point to duplicate it once again.
SS says
Nice gesture, Happy Holidays 🙂