I love discovering fun ingredients when I’m at the grocery store or just in the baking aisle at Target or Walmart. Sometimes they carry things groceries stores don’t carry. When I stumbled across the Andes Baking Mints, I immediately snatched up two bags. I remember seeing them in recipes last year but couldn’t, for the life of me, find them anywhere. This year, I got an early start, I guess.
It’s so hard not to eat the entire bag just by itself. I LOVE Andes mints. When we were younger, my mom would buy packages of the Andes mints for us and it was a real treat whenever we got one after dinner. I don’t know why we made it such a huge deal, but when you’re that young, you think it’s the greatest thing in the entire world. It’s funny that Andes mints evoke so much memory for me. It’s just something I vividly remember. That green wrapper and the dark chocolate & mint covered bottom. I also remember going to Olive Garden and being all like, “OMG they give you ANDES MINTS as a thank you treat.” Haha, the little things in life..and then you realize you were excited over an Andes mint at Olive Garden…
So, a lot of people associate mint and chocolate as a winter time/Christmas dessert but I don’t think this counts as that. I mean, mint chocolate chip ice cream is an anytime thing, so these cookies are definitely anytime too :) plus, why would you wait to make these? I’m officially addicted to pudding in cookies. I love soft cookies and the fact that pudding makes cookies soft for DAYS after it was made, it’s like the best addition to any cookie recipe. If you haven’t tried my butterscotch pudding cookies, you now have TWO pudding cookies to choose from and you must get pudding cookies in your life, asap.
Mint Chocolate Pudding Cookies
Yield: approx. 3 dozen | Prep Time: 15 minutes | Cook Time: 10 minutes
Ingredients:
1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
3/4 cup dark brown sugar
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1 (3.4 oz.) package of chocolate fudge pudding mix
2 large eggs
1 tsp. vanilla extract
2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1/4 cup Dutch-processed cocoa powder
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 cup Andes mint baking chips
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line baking sheets with silicone baking mats or parchment paper. Set aside.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream together butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar until creamy and fluffy. Add in the pudding mix, eggs, and vanilla extract. Beat well until incorporated.
- Slowly add in the dry ingredients until just combined. Fold in the mint chips with a spatula.
- Drop cookies onto baking sheet with a cookie scoop (I used a medium cookie scoop) and bake for 10 minutes or until slightly golden around the edges.
- Remove from oven and let cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes. Transfer to wire cooling racks to cool completely.
- Store in an airtight container for up to 5 days.
Source: adapted from Two Peas and Their Pod
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Get. Out.
And then get in my mouth.
Amazing. Lloyd will LOVE these.
My boyfriend loves the chocolate/mint combo so I think he would go totally crazy for these cookies!
I’m one of those people that associate it with Christmas but I’m always happy with chocolate + mint anything at any time. :) And I’m putting those mints on my must-buy-in-the-US list!
1. i love mint. 2. i love pudding cookies.
Can’t wait to make!!!!!
I think the heavens are telling me something–SECOND pudding cookie recipe I’ve seen today. I’ve used pudding mix for ultra moist cakes before, but never for cookies. Yum, yum. Also, Andes mint pieces are outrageously good. Try them in chocolate chip cookies, in place of the regular chips. To die for!
I’ve been dying to try your butterscotch pudding cookies, I loooove soft cookies to..my fav! These sound equally delicious! Im going to have to give this pudding-cookie thing a go! Thanks! :)
I love mint + chocolate anyyyytime of year. It’s just perfect. So are pudding cookies. And so are Andes Mints which, yes, I have fond childhood memories of, too :) also, other restaurants need to get with it. A toothpick for after dinner? Forreals? We should start yelling “BUT OLIVE GARDEN GIVES YOU ANDES MINTS! ANDES. MINTS.” I think it’s a perfect plan.
I agree! Chocolate and Mint is a all seasons type of flavoring! hehe Andes Mints were one of my favorite as a child as well. =)
Oh my these looks SOO good!
So making these soon! I am addicted to pudding in cookies too, and chocolate/mint is one of my favorite combinations!
Must.Make.These!
I love chocolate and mint together! And I just love pudding cookies and all the fun variations there are on them:-)
I use this same recipe for my pudding cookies! Definitely need to put Andes mints in them the next time!
Mint is good year round. I have a very similar recipe with the most gosh awful pic. lol!
YESSSS PLEASEE!
Bookmarked- making these!
Andes Mint Chips were my obsession last year… also… they have peppermint white chocolate (not in chip form) but I break them up into chunks… those a freaking awesome!
I actually got those peppermint white baking chips a couple weeks ago! They were in baking chip form!
No you didn’t! Seriously. This might cure my mint aversion.
I love Andes – I just can’t stop eating that. I bumped into their minty baking chips couple weeks ago, so this is perfect!
Oh yea, love those baking chips! And yes, mint chocolate is for all year round. Love these, girl!
I miss Andes candies at restaurants. They are hard for me to find at the store and they are so tasty!
Andes are my favorite! I absolutely love anything chocolate & mint… At Starbucks, I used to order mochas with a couple pumps of peppermint year-round cause I just couldn’t wait for Christmas to order Peppermint Mochas! These sound incredible, and I love the addition of the pudding mix!
Love these, Julie. Of course, I’ll never turn a good cookie down! :)
To me, Andes reminds me of my grandma. I don’t actually know if she ever ate them or if I just had a dream, but they seem vintage to me. How can that ever be bad? I usually associate them with Christmas time as well, but no longer! At least I’ll try.
Oh goodness, these look amazing! I want all of them please!
I love those nades mint baking chips! I just bought two more bags because I used all mine up for my andes mint fudge! I’ve never tried pudding cookies before Julie. I know, I’m really missing out!! Oh and mint + chocolate knows no seasons! Hence my mint chocolate recipes all year round lol.
I think Andes are definitely an anytime treat too. And right now sounds fantastic :) I love these cookies!
I think it’s so cute how the Andes mint evoke such an awesome memory. I don’t think I’ve actually tried them before (shocking, I know) but that needs to change! I hope I can find a bag of these at Target so I can make these cookies. I have yet to try pudding cookies but I’m definitely sold on it, especially if it keeps the cookies soft for days! :)
Yes! Olive Garden & Andes mints! My childhood! :)
When I was a kid, I was obsessed with those Andes mint candies. Now that I can buy them myself, I feel like I’m still obsessed with them because I can use them in baking.
I love those Andes baking chips! I could definitely eat the entire bag too. :/ These look yummy. I’ve got to get in on the pudding trend!
I’m so lucky that Julie shared this cookie with me. I love chocolate and mint together and these are soft and delicious!
So I made double chocolate cookies for Ben tonight and he asked if they were this recipe. When I told him “no”, he was visibly disappointed. Apparently you need to come back out here and make them for him haha Cause any cookies I make just won’t cut it haha
And now I MUST find those andes mint chips
Oh my gosh!
I’m drooling over these cookies! They look amazing!
I am obsessed with all things chocolate and mint so of course I need these cookies in my life! They look so perfectly soft!
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Can’t seem to find the cocoa – any suggested substitutes?
If you can find carob powder that would be an equivalent substitute.
Thanks! What about the Hershey’s cocoa powder?
Oh, didn’t realize you were saying you can’t find dutch-processed cocoa. I thought you were asking for a substitute for cocoa powder. In regards to your question, you can certainly use any kind of unsweetened cocoa powder as a substitute for dutch-processed cocoa powder.
Thank you for your help. I ended up researching and learning the difference between unsweetened Hershey’s cocoa and Dutch processed cocoa and making the necessary changes. Anywho, made these tonight for my son’s preschool cookie walk on Saturday-These. Are. The. Bomb. Oh wow! Thanks for the recipe! I might just have to try the peppermint chips now!