Cheesecake Chocolate Chip Cookie
A cheesecake flavored chocolate chip cookie with a creamy vanilla cheesecake center.
Ingredients
- 2 sticks butter unsalted, room temperature
- ¾ cup brown sugar
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 1 package cheesecake pudding mix 3.4 ounce package
- 1 tspn vanilla extract
- 2 eggs
- 2½ cups flour
- 2 tbspn milk powder nonfat dried powder
- 1 tspn baking soda
- 1 tspn baking powder
- ½ tspn salt
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
Cheesecake Filling
- 8 ounces cream cheese full fat, softened to room temperature
- 3 tbsp powdered sugar
- 1 tspn vanilla extract
Instructions
Cheesecake Filling
- In a bowl add softened cream cheese and all of the other ingredients and mix until smooth.
- Scoop into a plastic piping bag for filling the cookies later. Set aside.
Cheesecake Chocolate Chip Cookie
- In a stand mixer with paddle attachment, combine sugars and butter. Mix on medium high for 3-5 minutes until very creamy.
- Add in eggs and vanilla extract. Mix well.
- In a separate bowl sift together flour, baking soda and baking powder. Add in pudding mix and salt and lightly mix through.
- Add dry ingredients to mixer on low and mix just until incorporated. Do not overmix.
- Add chocolate chips and mix on low.
- Using a 5 ounce scoop, take a scoop of cookie dough. Make sure the scoop is not full and there is a gap at the top of the scoop.
- With a spoon or a clean finger, push the dough to the sides of the scoop to make a well in the center.
- Cut the tip off of the plastic pastry bag and pipe out the cheesecake filling into the center well. Fill just a little past halfway so the filling doesn't leak out.
- Fold over the edges of dough on top of the filling carefully.
- Take the scoop and release the dough onto a parchment lined baking sheet.
- Repeat with remaining dough and filling.
- Chill dough for at least 30 minutes and up to overnight in the fridge.
- Preheat oven to 375*F
- Bake 4-6 cookies per baking sheet. They will spread slightly during baking.
- Cool for 5 minutes on baking sheet, then transfer to wire rack to finish cooling.
- Enjoy!
Notes
Sweetened cream cheese makes a wonderful cheesecake type filling for these cheesecake flavored chocolate chip cookies. These cookies will last up to a week in the fridge or you can freeze for up to 6 months. Because of the cream cheese filling it is best to refrigerate what you don't eat in a day. These cookies can be enjoyed cold and will stay soft even if stored in the fridge.