These Three Ingredient Pumpkin Spice Pudding Cookies were made with a free sample of Jif Whips from Smuckers.
I love getting deliveries and fun things in the mail. With the holidays right around the corner, I’ve been getting packages like crazy and one of the boxes had a ton of bubble wrap in it. My brother-in-law in his kids came over to our house and I told the kids that they could have the bubble wrap to pop. Of course, they were delighted…until they tried actually popping it…and couldn’t. It was a some new kind of bubble wrap that doesn’t pop. Each of the bubbles is connected to the bubble next to it with a small space. So when you try to pop a bubble, the air is simply squished into the bubbles next to it. They worked at if for a while and eventually were able to get one bubble to pop! Even though the bubble wrap was a bust, I was able to make these easy, three ingredient pumpkin spice pudding cookies using the peanut butter from one of my deliveries. And they were a hit!
These cookies only require three ingredients…unless you want to roll them in sprinkles or add a Hershey’s Kiss and then it is four ingredients. It doesn’t get much easier than that! I used vanilla pudding, pumpkin spice whipped peanut butter and an egg.
Mix the three ingredients in a bowl until well combined. Use a small cookie dough scoop (mine was one tablespoon) to scoop the dough. Roll the dough into balls and place them on a baking sheet covered with a silicone baking mat or a piece of parchment paper.
If you want to add some sparkle and shine to the cookies, roll the dough balls in sugar. I used orange sugar sprinkles since these cookies are pumpkin spice flavor. If you don’t have any of the sparkling sprinkles, you could also use granulated sugar.
Use a fork to make a crosshatch pattern on the cookies. Or if you plan to add Hershey’s Kisses to your peanut butter cookies, leave them as a ball without the crosshatch on top.
Bake at 350 degrees for 12-15 minutes.
If using Hershey’s Kisses (these are the pumpkin spice flavor), press one into the center of each cookie right after they come out of the oven.
These cookies are so easy to make and since there are only 14 cookies in one batch, you don’t have to worry about going overboard on sweets.This would be a great recipe for a baker-in-training! I shared these cookies with some kids after school and they quickly disappeared.
Three Ingredient Pumpkin Spice Pudding Cookies
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup pumpkin spice peanut butter
- 1 package vanilla pudding, 3.4 oz instant pudding
- 1 egg
- Optional: orange sparkling sprinkles and/or Hershey's Kisses.
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Mix together pumpkin spice peanut butter, vanilla pudding and the egg.
- Use a small cookie scoop (mine was the 1 tablespoon size) to form balls.
- Optional: Roll cookie dough balls in sparkling sprinkles.
- Place on a cookie sheet covered with a silicone baking mat (or parchment paper).
- Use a fork to make a crosshatch on each cookie. Or if you plan to add Hershey’s Kisses, leave them as a ball without the crosshatch on top.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 12-15 minutes.
- Optional: Press a Hershey's Kiss into the center of each cookie right after they come out of the oven.
Notes
If pumpkin spice peanut butter is not available in your area, replace it with creamy peanut butter and 1 teaspoon of pumpkin pie spice. Recipe adapted from Picky Palate's Peanut Butter Pudding Cookies
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 14 Serving Size: 1 gramsAmount Per Serving: Unsaturated Fat: 0g
Jodie Carter says
Are these Crispy cookies, or chewy?? Thank, Jodie
gracie says
Hi Tonia,
Disappointment here and feeling defeated I was gonna make different kinds of cookies to send to my family and well I tried this recipe 2 ways a few with the cross hatch and left a few balls with the hershey’s chocolate chip I had. Anyway the crosshatch turned into a very oil greasy mess and didn’t spread ended up with a burnt 1 inch hard rock. lol.
the balls never flattened either like a cookie stayed ball shaped and burned on the bottom.
I was very sad and threw the cookies away and put everything away.
No cookie for the family maybe next year.
Tonia says
Oh shoot! That is very disappointing! 🙁
Sandy says
I wonder if you could use sugar free pudding? My husband loves these.
Katie says
Do you make the pudding first or just use the instant pudding powder?
Tonia says
You just use the instant pudding powder. Best of luck! ~Tonia
Michelle says
Excited to try these! Love Picky-Palate! Going to try pumpkin spice pudding in place of the vanilla…..will update!
Michelle says
Well, I made a batch with pumpkin spice pudding….yum! Then I made a batch with the vanilla pudding…more yummy! I guess the pumpkin spice pudding was overkill of pumpkin flavor. The original recipe wins!
Anna says
I made a batch with the pumpkin pudding mix but used regular peanut butter. They turned out great but I think I might add a bit of pumpkin spice to bump up the flavor. Great recipe, thanks!
Jessica Knott {Swankyrecipes} says
What an awesome and simple idea! Looks delicious!
Marly says
What an interesting combination of ingredients. I would have never guessed this could make such fun and tasty looking cookies!
Heather @ Shards of Lavender says
My kids used to love popping bubble wrap by riding their bikes over the sheets, but it sounds as if the new stuff just wasn’t made to be popped! What a fun and easy cookie that anyone should be able to make! I need to buy a tub of that yummy looking Jif whipped peanut butter and get to baking! There’s so many flavor combinations that could be made from this recipe…Thanks for the great idea, Tonia!
Zainab says
OH MY!!!! I just want a dozen please 🙂
Jenn @ Deliciously Sprinkled says
I love how easy these pumpkin spice pudding cookies are to make and they look delicious! 🙂
Jocelyn @BruCrew Life says
Those are too fun! I love how stinking easy these are! And what a genius idea to sub pudding mix for the sugar in these!
Tonia says
Thanks so much! I’m all about the easy things!
Dorothy @ Crazy for Crust says
Oh my gosh you subbed pudding mix for the sugar in easy PB cookies. You’re a genius!!!
Tonia says
Thanks Dorothy! I’ve got to give credit to Picky Palate. I love how easy they are!
Stephanie @ Back For Seconds says
Woah. These look crazy good! I am totally craving peanut butter now 🙂
Tonia says
Thank you Stephanie! We love pb in this house!