Recipe tip for cookies that will stay soft...

I have never heard this before and I will have to try it next batch! I don't like hard cookies as much as the soft and chewy ones.

It works, I don't have any idea why! LOL But, I actually don't have it written down anywhere on my recipes, I just automatically do it and everytime the cookies come out nice and soft, and better yet, stay that way. I'd have shared this before the holidays if I'd thought of it! :)

Thanks for the tip! I make cookies in large batches and freeze them, and they always seem to get hard no matter what. I will definitely have to try this one.

COOL! Thank you for the great tip!

Do you use vanilla with all the cookies, or do you add chocolate to chocolate cookies? I guess it doesn't matter.

Here is a link to my article on homemade pudding recipes:
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976798388

Thanks for this tip Marilyn!!! I have been looking for a solution to this for a long time!!!

Just so I don't screw it up--you put it in dry? or made up? and if you put it in dry, do you add any extra liquid? and what size box do you use? help....

The regular small sized box, not the double box, and the instant pudding goes in dry. I don't add any extra liquid at all, just add the instant pudding dry.
I've used for a change in some of my cookie recipes, chocolate pudding for chocolate-chocolate-chip cookies, or butterscotch instant pudding and add butterscotch chips to the chip cookie recipe and it's never matter what flavor I've used, but it does give you variations on the regular recipes - and I do mine in large batches too, and sometimes they make it to the freezer even!
Thanks for the link to homemade pudding, I don't actually make pudding, I buy it to use in the cookie recipes. When we freeze them, it almost seems as if anything, they come out softer - I use it in sugar, chip cookies, peanut butter, oatmeal and anything else I'm making. Throw in a regular sized package with any cookie recipe, dry and forget about it, which is why I "forgot" to post it till now, I just do it automatically.

Marilyn - Sounds like a solution to my problem of recent years. Lydia asked the questions I would have asked. Thank you for the advice.

Great tip-I needed this also!!!!!Thanks

This is a great tip, thank you for submitting it to the Kitchen Tricks, Hints & Tips group, Marilyn. I am featuring it there.

thanks

Hey Marylin, I actually hate sorting through recipe articles (I'm a 'guy') ... but this one caught my eye as very useful ... I printed it out for my wife ... I also like soft chewy cookies (hers usually are ... but sometimes not and we have discussed it with her admitting she did not know what to do about it ... now she will have excuses) :-)

Thanks for the tip !!!

typed too fast ... I meant NO excuses ...

that sounds very interesting I will remember that next time I make some cookies.

You're all welcome, try it and I forgot, even with sugar cookies, if you want to make some with a light lemony flavor, use the lemon instant pudding, or coconut :)

Thanks Marilyn, I wish I could add it to those Cookie Do company batches. I bought many more than I should have from my cousine when she was selling them. They taste good but they get harder and harder the longer they stay in the cookie jar. By the end it's almost like eating peanut brittle.

I'm glad you shared this as I certainly didn't know it. I'll put instant pudding on my shopping list so I can try it. I'm a real cookie monster.

Demetria,
LOL! I like peanut brittle, but not when it's supposed to be a cookie! You poor thing!
Clicker, everytime there's a sale on instant pudding, the cashiers in the grocery store must wonder WHY I need so much! I stock up and use it all the time in any cookie recipe.

I'll have to try it. Thanks!!!