What are some of your families favorite summer activities? We love all kinds of water sports, dirt bike riding, bicycle riding and hiking. The list goes on and on.
During the summer our all time favorite is…….sleeping in! Our school mornings start at 5:30am, so sleeping in until 7:30am or even 8am is a real treat!
I’ve had no problem shifting from our structured school routine to our “let’s have some summer fun” routine.
Another favorite summer activity is eating yummy homemade treats like these Root Beer Float Cookies. This was my first experience using pudding mix in a cookie recipe.
Nikkie from Chef in Training is a big fan of pudding cookies so I decided to give her recipe a try. Now I know why she likes them so much, they are amazing! Crunchy on the outside, moist and chewy on the inside, full of Root Beer flavor. The white chocolate chips give these cookies that rich vanilla ice cream taste…..cookie heaven! It’s summer, make a batch of these cookies, put your feet up and enjoy a few because…..
This pin Rocks!
Root Beer Float Cookies
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup butter softened
- 3/4 cup light brown sugar
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 small box instant vanilla pudding mix dry do not prepare
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp. Root Beer concentrate
- 2 1/4 cup flour
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1-2 cups white chocolate chips
Instructions
- Cream the butter and sugars together.
- Add instant vanilla pudding to butter and sugar mixture and mix well.
- Add eggs and the root beer concentrate and beat until well incorporated.
- Add the flour and baking soda and mix thouroughly.
- Add the white chocolate chips and mix well.
- Roll cookie dough into 1" balls and place on greased cookie sheet.
- Bake at 350 degrees F for 8-10 minutes.
Here are a few more of our favorite cookie recipes for you to try! Click on the picture and you will be taken to the awesome recipe!
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Where do you get root beer concentrate? I never heard of it. I want to try these.
Hi Teri!
Walmart carries it in the baking section by the vanilla, you can also purchase it on Amazon. I also recommend calling around to your local grocery stores to ask if they carry it and have some in stock. You will love the cookies! Thanks for following us, Tracy
I made these cookies tonight and they were delicious! The texture was perfect too. I used McCormick Root beer extract and I increased the amount to 1 1/2 tsp. but I think they could have still used a stronger root beer flavor. Does anyone have a brand name of a root beer flavoring that is stronger?
Hi Shannon!
So glad you loved the cookie texture and flavor! I’m actually out of Root Beer extract/concentrate as my darling 19 month old granddaughter found mine and poured it all over my kitchen floor! She then stepped in it and left her cute little footprints all round the kitchen 🙂 I searched around and didn’t find extra strength Root Beer extract/concentrate, I did find this link https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f95/make-your-own-root-beer-extract-174739/ for making your own extract. Maybe you can play with the ingredients to make it stronger? We would love to hear how it worked for you. Thanks for following us and commenting, Tracy
Hello!
I love making these cookies. Also I just adapted your recipe to make Orange Creamsicle Cookies. Which it worked really well for the adaptation. 🙂
Oooh….what a great idea!