Name: Banana Pudding Cookies
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 32 min
Total time: 37 min
Yield: 42
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1/2 cup softened butter; 1/2 cup shortening; 3/4 cup brown sugar; 1/4 cup granulated sugar; 2 tsp vanilla extract; 2 large eggs; 2 3/4 cup flour; 1 tsp baking soda; 1/2 tsp salt; 1 pkg banana instant pudding and pie filling (3.4 oz.) dry from the packet, unprepared; 1 cup coarsely chopped vanilla wafers

If you love soft and tasty cookies, you’re not going to want to miss out on these easy Banana Pudding Cookies. This simple recipe will have you making up a batch of cookies without any reason at all!

Because sometimes, we all just need to snuggle up on the couch with a plate full of warm cookies. This Easy Banana Pudding Cookies recipe is one that everyone is going to love.

Will These Banana Cream Pudding Cookies Expand as They Cook?

Contents

These soft cookies are like creamy banana pudding in a cookie form! As they bake, they will slightly but not a lot. They will have a little bit of thickness to them as that is what makes them so soft!

Make certain that you use a scooper to get the right size cookie and you’ll have no issue with them expanding too much on the baking sheet.

Golden banana cookies piled on a white platter.

Banana Pudding Cookie Ingredients

This recipe yields 42 cookies. The prep time is about 5 minutes and they take about 32 minutes to bake.

Overhead view of ingredients on a counter: eggs, sugar, flour, jell-o mix, 'nilla wafers.

1/2 cup softened butter
1/2 cup shortening
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup granulated sugar
2 tsp vanilla extract
2 large eggs
2 3/4 cup flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 pkg banana instant pudding and pie filling (3.4 oz.) dry from the packet, unprepared
1 cup coarsely chopped vanilla wafers

How to Make Banana Pudding Cookies

1. Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F

2. In a bowl, blend together the butter, shortening, brown sugar, granulated sugar, vanilla, and eggs.

Eggs, butter, sugar, and shortening in a glass bowl.

3. Once those are well incorporated, pour in the banana pudding dry mix, baking soda, and salt. Blend together.

Batter in glass bowl with dry ingredients added.

4. After those have been mixed, add flour a little bit at a time until it is well mixed.

5. Next, pour in the chopped vanilla wafers. Fold those in the batter with a large spoon.

6. On a greased cookie sheet, scoop the dough to form balls into 1 1/2-2 inch balls, or you can use a cookie scoop.

Banana cookie dough with vanilla wafers mixed in with a wooden spoon.

7. Bake each cookie sheet at about 8-9 minutes.

Balls of cookie dough on a baking sheet.

8. When cooked, remove each cookie from the pan and place on a cooling rack.

9. When cooled, serve and enjoy!

Yield: 42 cookies

Banana Pudding Cookies

These banana pudding cookies are so soft and chewy!

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 32 minutes

Total Time 37 minutes

Ingredients

1/2 cup softened butter
1/2 cup shortening
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup granulated sugar
2 tsp vanilla extract
2 large eggs
2 3/4 cup flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 pkg banana instant pudding and pie filling (3.4 oz.) dry from the packet, unprepared
1 cup coarsely chopped vanilla wafers

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F
In a bowl, blend together the butter, shortening, brown sugar, granulated sugar, vanilla, and eggs.
Once those are well incorporated, pour in the banana pudding dry mix, baking soda, and salt. Blend together.
After those have been mixed, add flour a little bit at a time until it is well mixed.
Next, pour in the chopped vanilla wafers. Fold those in the batter with a large spoon.
On a greased cookie sheet, scoop the dough to form balls into 1 1/2-2 inch balls, or you can use a cookie scoop.
Bake each cookie sheet at about 8-9 minutes.
When cooked, remove each cookie from the pan and place on a cooling rack.
When cooled, serve, and enjoy!

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

Serving Size:

1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 114Total Fat: 6gSaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 3gCholesterol: 16mgSodium: 103mgCarbohydrates: 14gFiber: 0gSugar: 6gProtein: 1g