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Soft and chewy chocolate chip cheesecake pudding cookies with white chips, chocolate chunks, and pink, red, and white M&M’s on a cooling rack.

Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Pudding Cookies

Source: donuts2crumpets
Soft, chewy Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Pudding Cookies loaded with chocolate chunks, cream cheese chips, and festive M&M’s. Ready in 30 minutes.
Servings: 36
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 9 minutes
5 from 4 votes

EQUIPMENT

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup butter or margarine cold and cut up into cubes
  • 1 cup brown sugar packed
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 3-1/4 cups AP flour spooned and leveled
  • 1 pkg cheesecake pudding mix 3.4oz
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chunks
  • 1 cup cream cheese chips or white chocolate chips
  • 1 cup valentine's plain M&M's plus extra for decorating

Instructions
 

  • Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.  Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
  • In your mixer bowl, cream together the cold, cubed butter or margarine and both sugars for approximately 3 minutes.
  • Beat in the eggs and the vanilla, one at a time, scraping down the sides in between.
  • In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, pudding mix, baking soda and salt.
  • Add it to the creamed sugar mixture and stir until combined.
  • Mix in the white and semi-sweet chocolate chips, then stir in the M&M's.
  • Using a 2 Tbsp cookie scoop, scoop the dough on to your prepared trays, leaving about 2 inches between each cookie ball.
  • Press extra M&M's in to the top of each ball of dough if desired.  I press in 3 different colors, just to help them show better in the cookies.
  • Bake for 8-9 minutes until the cookies are light golden brown on the top.  (For best results I cook one tray at a time on the middle shelf.)
  • Remove from the oven and let the cookies sit on the trays on a cooling rack for 5 minutes, then transfer the cookies to the cooling racks.

Notes

Tips for the Best Cheesecake Pudding Cookies:
  • Use white chocolate, cheesecake, or vanilla pudding mix, but avoid sugar‑free and make sure the package is 3.4 oz so the dry ingredient ratio stays correct.
  • White chocolate chips or Hershey’s cream cheese chips both work beautifully.
  • Trader Joe’s chocolate chunks melt into the best chocolate puddles, but any semi‑sweet chunk or chip works. (Skip milk chocolate—these cookies are already sweet.)
  • Swap the M&M colors for any holiday or use classic colors for an everyday cookie.