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Easy M&M Pumpkin Pudding Cookies with milk are a great after school snack for fall days.  They also make a great midnight snack when you can’t sleep.

M&M Pumpkin Pudding Cookies - soft chewy cookies loaded with chocolate chips and colored M&M candies make a great fall treat. Easy recipe to fill the cookie jar with!
Well, it was bound to happen again. I had to make more pudding cookies.

Especially after I made these peanut butter pudding cookies, and then I have seen so many yummy combinations online lately. I have had pudding on the brain dreaming up combinations for a while now. I hope you are ready for pudding cookie mania!!!

M&M Pumpkin Pudding Cookies - cookies loaded with candies and chocolate chips make a great late night snack. Easy recipe to fill the cookie jar with this fall.

What was I supposed to do when I saw the box of pumpkin pudding at the grocery store? Make pudding and eat it?

Of course not. My first thought was to make it into yummy cookies because if you have not tried pudding cookies, then you are missing out. They are soft and chewy and basically addicting, no matter what the flavor. It is my favorite way to make cookies right now, along with the cake mix cookies.

Yes, I may have bought a few different pudding flavors, and yes, I may have made 3-4 different kinds in the last 2 months. You need to try these vanilla pudding cookies and these chocolate mint pudding cookies.

I’m just warning you there is a pudding obsession happening here, so be prepared. I promise to spread them out though, so the obsession isn’t quite so recognizable!!!

M&M Pumpkin Pudding Cookies - candies and chocolate chips make these soft cookies disappear in a hurry. Great recipe to fill the cookie jar with this fall.

Lucky for me, my son needed a dessert kind of a snack this week…for get this…National Punctuation Day! Apparently this was a “real” holiday on Monday. I don’t know. Yeah, I had never heard of it either, but I’m all for celebrating any day with more cookies.

Soft, chewy M&M pumpkin pudding cookies made with fall colored candies are a must make this month!!!

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M&M Pumpkin Pudding Cookies

M&M Pumpkin Pudding Cookies

Yield: 48 cookies
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 8 minutes
Total Time: 23 minutes

These soft M&M Pumpkin Pudding Cookies are loaded with chocolate and candies. Perfect treat to go with a glass of milk!

Ingredients

  • 1 cup butter, softened
  • 3/4 cup brown sugar
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
  • 1 - 3.4 ounce box instant pumpkin spice pudding
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 2 1/4 cups flour
  • 1 1/2 cups fall colored M&M candies
  • 1/2 cup miniature chocolate chips

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Set out some baking sheets.
  2. In a mixing bowl, beat the butter and sugars until creamy. Add the eggs and vanilla and beat again.
  3. Sift together the flour, baking soda, pumpkin pie spice, pudding mix and salt. Slowly add to the butter mixture.
  4. Stir in the M&M's and chocolate chips by hand.
  5. Use a teaspoon to scoop the dough onto a baking sheet. Bake for 8-9 minutes. They will appear undone, but they will set up while cooling.
  6. Let cool on baking sheet for a few minutes before removing to a wire rack. Store in a sealed container. Makes about 48 cookies.

Notes

*If you cannot find the pumpkin pudding, use vanilla pudding with an extra teaspoon of pumpkin pie spice added.

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© Jocelyn @ Inside BruCrew Life
Cuisine: American / Category: Cookies & Whoopie Pies

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  • Never heard of that holiday!! Actually, haven’t seen the pumpkin pudding either! But I’m heading to Meijer today and you KNOW I will be looking for it. YUM.

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  • These look great! I love your pudding cookies, and I love pumpkin! Perfect 🙂
    I hadn’t seen the pumpkin pudding out yet, either. Is it Jello brand?? If I can find it, I might try these with toffee bits instead of the M&Ms.

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  • They look awesome! Yum! I would appreciate it if you could post your recipe in my first blog party! This will be perfect! Please spread the word! Thank You! Can’t wait to try this tecipe!

    Warmest Regards,
    Annamaria

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  • I honestly have that pudding in my pantry right now. I was thinking it would probably expire before I could figure out what to do with it. I always keep M&M’s on hand too. I know what I am making!

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  • You are definitely a woman after my heart…and tummy too! =D I am wild about cookies…your photos always make me drool. I am looking for pumpkin pudding next time I go shopping! Fabulous! I say…let them make my up ole day as a holiday…you and I can be ready to bake cookies for whatever reason huh? ;-} Thanks for linking up at Weekend Potluck! Enjoy a fabulous weekend.

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  • These look great……National Punctuation day? sorry to say that I would def be kicked out of the celebration cause me and run on sentences would just keep on going all the way to next year’s National Punctuation day….see what I mean? Thank you so much for taking the time to link up again….I am so happy to see you every week…xo have a great day ! Lucy

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  • I don’t normally post about the recipes, but these are amazing!! My husband, who’s not a pumpkin fan, was skeptical at first, but ate too many already. My son, who’s pretty picky about new stuff, loves them too. My new fall favorite 🙂

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  • Dumb question but what does it mean if my cookies didn’t spread out? I baked them but they just stayed I’m somewhat of a ball shape. I dont know if it matters but used a Pampered Chef stone to bake on.

    Thanks. Andrea

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    • Hi, Andrea. You have me stumped with this one. I have made them several times and never had them stay in a ball shape. One question, did you preheat your stone before you baked on it? The baking stone would be my only guess at why they didn’t turn out. I hope you will give the recipe another chance and try again.

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  • I can’t find the pumpkin pudding, but I did find pumpkin cake mix. How would I substitute it? Thanks these look delicious. I use your peanut butter m&m cookie recipe all the time.

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  • Hi, Janel. I am so glad to hear you use the peanut butter cookie recipe. It’s one of my favorites too 😉 For these cookies you could substitute a vanilla pudding mix with a teaspoon of pumpkin pie spice in place of the pumpkin pudding if you can’t find it. I hope that helps 🙂

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      • Yes, I would add an additional teaspoon of the pumpkin pie spice because you don’t have the pumpkin flavor from the pudding. I did just see pumpkin pudding at Walmart last week. And last year I bought it at Meijer…in case you wanted to keep looking for it.

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  • Hello! Thank you so much for sharing this recipe! I just tried them, but made a few changes (I used white chocolate chips instead of the M&Ms and I used cinnamon instead of the pumpkin spice, hubby’s not a big pumpkin fan) and they came out SO GOOD!! You weren’t kidding when you said they’d look undone coming out of the oven. I was tempted to put em back in – but I figured I’d follow the recipe! I’m glad I followed it the way you said, they came out delish! I even topped them with cream cheese icing to mask the pumpkin spice a little more. Wonderful! Thanks again for sharing!!!

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    • I am so glad you liked them. Good call on not putting them back in the oven 🙂 I just love the texture of the cookie after it sets up. You could also substitute any flavor pudding in the future since your hubby doesn’t like pumpkin.

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