Chocolate Chip Cookies With A Twist

Hello everyone,


I couldn't just make one dessert yesterday, so I decided to make two. What I made was a throwback to my high school food & nutrition class. I took the class my junior year of high school, and the class really made me want to go into a food/nutrition related field. I knew that I wouldn't want to make the lifetime commitment as a chef to 80 hour work weeks and missed holidays. This realization helped guide my decision to major in nutrition which I am very passionate about. I'm always on the hunt to make recipes healthier, but still flavorful. In the future, I would love a career where I can use my nutritional science expertise to explain why certain foods are good for you, and how to make delicious dishes with those ingredients. Teaching healthy cooking classes would be an awesome fit and hopefully I'll find a career in it. Since you never know who may be reading this blog (hi mom), I would also just like to say my dream job would be to teach healthy cooking on the food network so if anyone from the FN is reading this, YES I WILL COME WORK FOR YOU. Now that I've shared my life goals with you, you may ask what does healthy cooking have to do with your dish? The answer is..very little. Basically my reminiscing on my high school class led me to share my aspirations with the blogosphere.  Now getting back to the point, in my high school food & nutrition class we made outstanding Chocolate Chip Pudding Cookies. We had so many leftovers that I brought some into my spanish class. They were such a hit that people actually told me I should open a bakery. This compliment went to my head and I proceeded to spend the next 55 minutes of spanish toying with the idea of making said bakery dream come true. I realized that maybe a bakery wasn't in the cards right now, but I had an awesome recipe on my hands. I've kept the recipe for these cookies on me for over 2 years, and am now ready to share with all my readers the recipe for 


Chocolate Chip Pudding Cookies
 1 & 3/4 C flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 C butter (room temp)
1/4 C white sugar
3/4 C brown sugar
1 pkg JELLO Instant Pudding Mix (Vanilla)
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 eggs
12 oz pkg chocolate chips


* In a medium sized mixing bowl, combine flour & baking soda
* In a separate, larger mixing bowl, beat the butter, both sugars, pudding mix, and vanilla extract until creamy.
*Beat the 2 eggs into the butter and sugar mixture
*Gradually add the flour mixture into the butter and sugar mixture with a wooden spoon.
* Stir in the chocolate chips, the batter will be very stiff
* Drop by rounded tsp on ungreased baking sheets
* Bake at 375 degrees for 8-10 min
*Enjoy

                                                    Don't these look awesome?


Thoughts on the recipe: I like to bake these cookies until the 9 minute mark. I will warn you that when they come out of the oven, the cookies will feel raw on top. That is ok! The pudding gives the cookies a cake like texture in the middle (awesome) & they might not feel completely cooked through. Let them sit for 15 minutes, and you will realize they are cooked through. Then when you eat one you will realize that they blow store bought cookies out of the water. Definitely give these cookies a try. They've stayed in my memory for 2 years, and hopefully they will stay in yours too.