Banana split cookies. Soft, chewy banana pudding cookies loaded with chocolate chips, sprinkles and maraschino cherries.
Chocolate, sprinkles, and cherries, OH MY!! Not to mention an incredibly soft banana pudding cookie to put it all in.
Before I get to that though, I feel like I owe you an apology for not posting these sooner this week! It’s Wednesday already! Where have I been? Ever feel like things just get away from you?
I’ll just blame it all on an upcoming move, children’s school projects, and life itself.
I’m sure everyone can relate? Right?
So now that I apologized, lets get on to possibly the best cookie ever invented!
I’ve made three batches of these already, just in the last week. No single batch has survived past the day it’s been made. So sadly, I am unable to tell you how long these can be stored for. But honestly, I don’t think anyone is going to have the problem of them going bad!
These cookies are made with a simple cookie recipe that involves a package of banana cream pudding. Have you had cookies with pudding before? If not, I highly recommend giving it a try. They are the softest cookies imaginable. So soft, that if I didn’t eat them all I probably could have fashioned a pillow out of them to sleep on. Hmmm…that would be awkward. Moving on..
Maraschino cherries. As I think about these little delightful balls of sweet red stickiness I can’t help but smile. Who doesn’t love these cherries?! Ever make anything that you just want to have stand out and be AWESOME? All you have to do is add a cherry to it! When I’m at a restaurant and I get a drink with a cherry on top, I get so excited! And of course I try to take my time and enjoy my drink with that little red treat on it, but I can’t do it! I must eat the cherry!!!
I was worried about how these would bake in the cookies, but they did great! I took the stems off and cut each one into about four pieces. Then the important part thing is to grab a paper towel and pat them dry so that all that sticky sweet red juice doesn’t ruin your cookies. And yes by the end of this process your fingers will be dyed red. Then when you add them to the cookie dough, just gently fold it in so that they don’t become mashed up, and you’re not spreading any of the remaining juices around staining the cookie.
You are going to LOVE these cookies because of how simple they are to make, and how incredibly they taste.
Banana Split Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 cups flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ½ cup butter, softened to room temperature
- ½ cup light brown sugar, packed
- ¼ cup sugar
- 1 (3.4 ounce package) Banana creme pudding, (not prepared)
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup maraschino cherries, roughly chopped
- 1/8 cup sprinkles
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Mix together the flour and the baking powder together and set aside
- In mixing bowl cream together the butter and sugars. Add in the pudding mix, vanilla and the eggs. Mix on low speed until combined.
- Slowly add in the flour mixture and continue to mix on low speed until fully combined.
- Fold in the chocolate chips and sprinkles.
- Make sure the cherries have been patted and dried with a paper towel and fold them into the dough. Stir as little as possible at this point.
- Roll dough into 1 inch balls and place on greased or parchment lined cookie sheet. Press the cookies down so they are slightly flattened discs.
- Bake for about 11 minutes, just until the edges start to turn golden. Leave the cookies on the pan for an additional 5 minutes to cool. Then remove to a cooling rack to continue cooling. Store in an air tight container.
- Makes 20 cookies
Nutrition
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Hi, do you know if these will keep in the freezer okay? I’m worried about the cherries. Thanks
Do you know how many carbs would be in 1 cookie? My grandson is a type 1 diabetic.
Do u use regular. Banana. Crime. Pudding or. Instant
Hi Raeann! I used Instant pudding 🙂
Made these last night, they turned out very good. My husband liked them.
Thanks so much Pam! I’m so glad you enjoyed them 🙂 These are some of my hub’s favorite cookies!
Hello Serene!
For the butter is it salted or unsalted?
Thank you!
Hi Angie! I used unsalted butter.
Hi Serene! I’m thinking of making these for an upcoming Girl’s Night! Have you ever added pecans or walnuts to them? Do you think it’d be a good addition?
Hi Brittany! You’re going to love these cookies! I haven’t made them with nuts before though! I imagine they would be good with walnuts though 🙂 or peanuts like a real banana split sometimes has on top. Let me know how it goes!
I just made these cookies this past week, and included chopped walnuts. They were great. Even my son who does not like bananas liked these cookies. Thanks for sharing a great recipe.
Ok thank you Serene and I will just stick with what the recipe calls for. Can’t wait to try them and thank you again. Enjoy your day.
Respectfully,
Tim
Hello Serene, Thank you for sharing your recipe as I will bake these cookies, but wanted to know if you can substitute Agave nectar in place of the 1/4 cup sugar (white)? Thank you.
Respectfully,
Tim
Hi Tim! I’m so happy you want to try the recipe. I haven’t made this recipe with Agave before. Typically substituting sugar for agave makes a batter more liquidy since we’re replacing a dry ingredient with a wet one. So other alterations would need to be made to balance the cookie dough back out. Not to say it can’t be done, but we would need to add more dry ingredients to get the same consistency.
I was just wondering the pudding mix, is it the instant pudding mix you use or the cook and serve?
Hi Rebekah 🙂 I used the instant pudding mix for these.
Serene, what fun cookies! Loving the cherries in them! Hey, life just gets busy and you are such a great mom… no need to apologize, girlfriend! Thanks for sharing this banana treat with us at the Show Stopper this week!
Visiting from I’m Lovin Link Party. They look very colourful and sound so yummy! I co-host Sweet and Savoury Sunday and would love for you to stop by and share these and other recipes with us when the party goes live on Sunday evening . Have a great day!
Thank you so much Laura! I will be sure to stop by on Sunday for the link party 🙂 Happy Friday!
Oh, now these are so much fun. Hope you have a great day.
Thank you so much Heidi! They were a lot of fun 🙂 and tasty too! Happy friday! Thanks for stopping by.
These cookies sound AMAZING! I am a huge banana fan, so these are right up my alley! Pinned!
If you love banana then I know for sure you will love these! Thanks for stopping by Gayle 🙂 Thanks for the pin!
Color me impressed! Who knew you could get banana split in cookie form! Haha, I have had recipes like that, where you don’t even want to think about how many boxes or bananas you used that week (or calories for that matter!) Oh well, totally worth it because soft cookies are THE BEST. Pinning!
I do my best NOT to count calories! Don’t even remind me! And thanks for the pin Mary Frances 🙂
Such a fun recipe and idea! My boys would flip out over these and with summer coming up, they would be perfect for a trip to the beach. Thanks!
Thanks so much Matt! They are a fun snack, they definitely didn’t last long with our family! Hope you’re having a great day 🙂
Oh yummmm! I could eat a dozen of these with big glass of milk. 🙂
I think I did eat a dozen of these! Thanks Maggie 🙂 Hope you’re having an awesome week!
Serene, these cookies are so clever! I love banana splits so I bet I would adore these 🙂
Thanks so much Amy! Banana splits are one of my favorite treats too, you are going to LOVE these!