I will admit, I am a cookie addict. Chocolate chip cookies, sugar cookies, cookie cakes, you name it, I'll probably eat it. So when I found this recipe for a cake batter pudding cookie bar (say that five times fast!), I couldn't wait to try it.
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 (3.4 oz) box INSTANT vanilla pudding mix, dry
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 teaspoon almond extract
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 3/4 cup yellow cake mix
- 2 cups bread flour
- 1 cup white chocolate chips
- 1/3 cup sprinkles
Directions
- Combine baking soda, yellow cake mix and bread flour into a bowl and set aside.
- Cream butter, I find it best to use a stand mixer, as the dough is reaalllly thick. Cream sugars into butter.
- Add dry pudding mix and mix until well incorporated. Add vanilla, almond extract and eggs to the mixture and beat well.
- Add flour/cake mix mixture and mix well. Add white chocolate chips and sprinkles and mix until evenly distributed.
- Press dough evenly onto the bottom of a greased 9x13 inch baking pan. Note: dough will rise up, so use a deep-dished pan.
- Add more sprinkles, if desired.
- Bake at 350ºF for about 20 minutes or until top is golden brown.
Original recipe was found at Chef in Training.
I recently made the cookie bars for a work potluck, and I got rave reviews, despite the odd flavor. What odd flavor?, you ask. Banana cream.
Yes. Banana cream.
I grabbed the wrong pudding mix at Kroger. But in my defense, both boxes look the same!
So children, always remember to read box labels before dumping them into your dough.
