Chocolate & White Chocolate Chip Pudding Cookies

These cookies are so soft and delicious!

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter (slightly soft)
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 1 small package instant vanilla or French vanilla pudding
• 2 1/4 cups flour
• 1 tsp. soda
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1 package chocolate chips (I like to use 1/2 pkg white and 1/2 pkg milk)

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 375.
• Line pans with parchment paper.
• Cream butter, sugar, and brown sugar.
• Add eggs and vanilla, mix well.
• Add dry pudding powder and stir until incorporated.
• Add flour, soda, and salt, mixing until flour is just incorporated.  
• Bake for 7-8 minutes (you want to undercook them slightly so the center remains soft). 

Brown Butter Biscoff Rice Krispie Treats

These are an easy, delicious upgrade to your basic rice krispie treat.  I found the original recipe here.

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup (1 cube) butter
• 16 oz. bag mini marshmallows
• 1/2 cup cookie butter (I get mine from Trader Joe's)
• 1/2 tsp. vanilla
• 1/2 tsp. sea salt
• 5-6 cups rice krispies*
• 1-2 cups chopped Biscoff cookies*
• flaky sea salt (for sprinkling on top)

Instructions

• Grease 8x8 pan (or 9x13 if you're doubling the recipe).  Set aside.
• Melt butter over medium heat, stirring often, until it foams, smells nutty, and browns.  This should take just a few minutes.
• Turn heat to low and add marshmallows, stirring constantly until marshmallows are mostly melted.
• Remove the pan from heat and stir in cookie butter, vanilla, and salt.
• Gently fold in rice krispies and chopped Biscoff cookies until well coated with marshmallows.
• Transfer mixture to prepared pan, and gently press the mixture into the pan (I just grease my fingers and do it by hand).  (Don't press too firmly, or the treats will end up hard and dry.)
• Lightly sprinkle sea salt on top.
• Cut into squares and enjoy!

*I prefer a soft, gooey rice krispie treat, so am toying with these amounts.  Start with smaller amounts of the dry ingredients, and add more until the mixture reaches your desired consistency.