Cheesecake stuffed chocolate chip cookies are thick as the cookies of the bakery, but with a soft sticky center of light sweetened cream cheese. With every bite, you have a crisp edge, chocolate that is chewy on the inside, but a painless cheesecake surprise inside.
The cookies are amazing to use during special occasions, during baking in the weekends or even when you feel like taking your plain cookie recipe to the next level. They appear elegant, yet without any cooking skills, they can be prepared at home using pantry products.
Why you’ll love these Cheesecake stuffed chocolate chip cookies?
The cheesecake filled chocolate chip cookies are unique due to the variation in texture and taste. The exterior cookie is also buttery and chocolatiest with a lot of chocolate chips and the inside is creamy and somewhat tangy and melts exceptionally well when baked.
They are:
- Mushy and soft and have a sticky middle.
- Gift worthy.
- Easy to make ahead
- Available as with easy fillings.
These cookies will not disappoint whether you are baking them to share with family or they are on your food blog.
Ingredients:
For the cheesecake filling
- 4 oz (115 g) cream cheese, softened
- 3 tablespoons powdered sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
For the cookie dough
- 3/4 cup (170 g) very soft unsalted butter.
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups all‑purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 mean half chocolate chips or chocolate chunks.
Step‑by‑step instructions:
1: Ready the filling of the cheesecake.
Prepare, in a small bowl, the cream cheese that has been softened, the powdered sugar and vanilla, and blend them until they are smooth. Put teaspoonfuls on an a lined plate. Freeze for at least 30 minutes. With freezing, it is more convenient to fill the cookies.
2: Make the cookie dough
With a kettle whisk, stir together the softened butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar till light and airy in a large bowl. Add the vanilla and the egg and beat them together.
Whisk the flour, baking soda and salt in a separate bowl. Insert the dry mix slowly into the wet mix and mix the two. Add the chocolate chips and fold it in.
3: Assemble the cookies
Take the dough in your hand in scoop and press it flat. Insert the filling in the center, which is frozen. Put another little of the dough on it, and roll the edges into a ball. Ensure that the filling is not spilled as it bakes.
The same with the rest of the filling and dough.
4: Chill the dough
Put the dough balls in refrigeration, refrigerate 2030 min on a lined baking sheet. Chilling maintains the shape of cookies when baking.
5: Bake
Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C). Bake 1214 minutes or until the sides are slightly golden, yet the centres appear not hard. Avoid over baking the cookies as they will harden when allowed to cool.
6: Cool and serve
Allow the sheet to cool recipes between 5 and 10 minutes then transfer them to a wire rack. Well, warm, to serve to a squidgy center of cheese-cake, or leave them to cool, and get a firmer bite.
How to make just right cheesecake stuffed cookies?
Freeze filling: it ensures that the cheesecake does not melt out of the oven too quickly.
Seal well: any holes allow leakage of filling.
Room-temperature butter is to be used: it forms a smooth and evenly combined dough.
Do not over bake: plush interiors are the major ones.
Make ahead and instruction on storage:
Keep in a sealed container at room temperature of up to 2 days or in the fridge of up to 5 days. Cookies can be frozen 2 months to be stored longer. Warm up in a few seconds in the microwave oven and serve.
Another thing you can do with the prepared dough balls is freeze the balls and bake them directly out of the freezer, but it will take an additional 1-2 minutes to bake them.
Variations and flavor ideas:
- Combine Oreo cookies crushed in the cheesecake filling.
- Use white chocolate or dark chocolate cigars.
- Add 1 spoon of peanut butter to cream cheese filling.
- Before baking sprinkle seasonal sea salt on top.
Final thoughts
The cookies are stuffed chocolate chip with cheese cake, this is the ultimate one any cookie lover who wants to have something special. Soft, creamy, and loaded with surprises on the inside, they will make a brilliant part of your baking repertoire due to their great taste. The dish should be simple enough of entry level and worthwhile of celebration. These cookies not only can never be the same with a regular chocolate chip cookies, but once you give them a taste, you will never think the same of that particular cookies.