Description
These Banana Pudding Cookies are crispy on the edges, yet soft in the center. Made with mashed banana, vanilla pudding and Nilla Wafers, these cookies taste just like banana pudding, but in cookie form. They take only 12 minutes to bake and minutes to mix together.
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter, melted
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar (104 grams)
- 1/2 cup brown sugar (104 grams)
- 1 medium banana, mashed
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract (4 grams)
- 1 box (3.4 ounce) instant vanilla pudding mix
- 1/2 teaspoon salt (3 grams)
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda (4 grams)
- 2 cups all-purpose flour (250 grams)
- 4 ounces white chocolate, roughly chopped
- 28 Nilla wafer cookies, crushed/broken into small pieces
Icing
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar (65 grams)
- 1 tablespoon whole milk or heavy cream (15 grams)
Instructions
1. Preheat oven to 350F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
2. In a large bowl, add banana and mash with a fork. Add butter, sugars, egg yolk and vanilla extract. Whisk to combine.
3. Add in vanilla pudding mix, salt, baking soda and flour. Whisk to combine.
4. Stir in chopped white chocolate, and Nilla Wafer cookies (reserve a few pieces of each for the top of the cookies).
5. Scoop 8 large cookie dough mounds onto prepared baking sheets. Top the cookies with leftover pieces of chopped white chocolate and Nilla Wafer cookie pieces, if desired.
6. Bake in preheated oven for 12-15 minutes. At the 9 minute mark, if the cookies are not flattening as much as you like, remove the baking sheet from the oven and very carefully flatten the cookies to your desired thickness, with spatula. Place back in the oven and finish baking an additional 3-5 minutes. (12 minutes for a softer cookie, 15 minutes for a firmer/crisper cookie). Allow to cool on baking sheet 5 minutes before transferring to a wire cooling rack.
7. In a small bowl, whisk together ingredients for icing. Drizzle icing over cookies. Enjoy!
- Prep Time: 10
- Cook Time: 12
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American