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Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Bites

June 1, 2012 14 Comments

So, you may have noticed that I’ve been M.I.A. from this blog lately. Sorry about that! Things have been kind of hectic around here, and between all the traveling we’ve been doing, my bar exam review classes, and work, I just haven’t had the time or energy to cook and blog. It doesn’t help that I’ve sort of lost my cooking/photography mojo recently. This week alone, I overcooked a big pot of BBQ chicken one day, under-cooked a pizza the next, and mixed up a batch of blueberry lemonade that tasted great but looked exactly like dirty dishwater.  I don’t even want to talk about what those pictures looked like. Ugh.

In order to regain my mojo, I decided to go back to basics and make something simple but delicious. Chocolate chip cookies immediately came to mind, because what is simpler and more delicious than the humble chocolate chip cookie? Nothing. Except for these mini chocolate chip cheesecake cookies, which are mind blowing-ly delicious and ridiculously easy to make. Don’t be put off by the ingredients — I know it seems weird (and kinda wrong), but the cream cheese really works in this recipe! It doesn’t affect the flavor much, but gives your cookies an extra bit of creamy moistness that is simply divine. I’m definitely going to have to pawn these bite sized treats off on other people, because they are far too easy to eat.

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Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Bites
Author: Tina @ Just Putzing
Recipe type: Dessert
 
Ingredients
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 tsp salt
  • ½ tsp baking powder
  • ⅛ tsp baking soda
  • 10 tbsp butter (1 stick plus 2 tablespoons), softened
  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • ½ cup granulated sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • 3 oz cream cheese, room temperature
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 1-1/2 cups chocolate chips
Directions
  1. Preheat oven to 375. Grease or line a cookie sheet with parchment paper, then set aside.
  2. In a large bowl, cream together butter, both sugars, egg, cream cheese, and vanilla.
  3. Slowly add the dry ingredients, mixing after each addition, until batter is smooth.
  4. Stir in the chocolate chips.
  5. Drop tablespoon-sized scoops of dough onto sheet, at least 1 inch apart. (At this size, you should get about 40 cookies.)
  6. Bake 10 to 12 minutes, or until cookies are golden brown around edges.
  7. Enjoy one or two, then hide the rest immediately to avoid eating every last cookie in one sitting
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(Adapted from the Dainty Chef’s recipe)

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Filed Under: Cheesecake, Chocolate, Cookies, Dessert, Kid-Friendly, Snack Tagged With: chocolate treat, cookies

Comments

  1. Rita says

    June 2, 2012 at 6:14 am

    They are perfect! I am intrigued with the cream cheese in there,
    Rita

    Reply
    • justputzing says

      June 2, 2012 at 5:59 pm

      Thank you! The cream cheese is definitely different, but in a great way.

      Reply
  2. mjskit says

    June 3, 2012 at 1:23 pm

    Are you serious?!?!!? Chocolate chips cookies and cheese cake?! Talk about melt in your mouth goodness! This cookie monster would definitely be happy with these in the cookie jar!

    Reply
    • justputzing says

      June 4, 2012 at 3:15 pm

      Haha, then hurry up and go fill your cookie jar!

      Reply
  3. Jaidis says

    June 11, 2012 at 9:16 pm

    Thanks for sharing this recipe! I made them a couple days ago and they turned out great! I just blogged about making them and linked to your blog 🙂

    Reply
    • justputzing says

      June 11, 2012 at 9:18 pm

      Awesome! I’m glad the recipe turned out well for you — your pictures look great 🙂

      Reply
  4. Anna says

    June 14, 2012 at 11:50 am

    Just made these last night, and they are delicious! They came out just like the picture, which was good since I was worried when they weren’t browning on the top.
    Thanks so much for the recipe!

    Reply
    • justputzing says

      June 14, 2012 at 1:11 pm

      I’m so glad the recipe turned out well for you! I was worried about the tops of mine browning too, but then I realized the bottoms were getting plenty brown.

      Reply
  5. Meagan @ Scarletta Bakes says

    June 19, 2012 at 1:22 pm

    These are adorable! I just LOVE how sweet and soft they look. Could you please send me a few?

    Reply
    • justputzing says

      June 19, 2012 at 1:26 pm

      Thanks! I WOULD send you some (maybe…), but they were scarfed up immediately. Not by me. Definitely not…

      Reply
  6. Andrea says

    February 11, 2015 at 9:05 pm

    Made these today with my young son and they were soooo amazing! Thank you!!

    Reply
    • justputzing says

      February 11, 2015 at 9:39 pm

      I’m so glad you guys liked the cookies!!

      Reply
  7. Diane DePauw says

    August 31, 2016 at 11:32 pm

    Do you refrigerate the cookies or are they ok left out? Made them today, love them. Thank you!

    Reply
    • justputzing says

      September 1, 2016 at 7:40 am

      They should be OK left out, but I actually prefer to store all my cookies in the fridge b/c I like the texture more when they’re a little cold 🙂

      Reply

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