Easy Cream Cheese Cookies Recipe (2024)

If you love cheesecake, you are going to go crazy over this Cream Cheese Cookies Recipe. Cheesecake cookies recipe has everything that you love about cheesecake in bite size cookies.

Cream Cheese Cookies Recipe:

Cheesecake fans need to stop what they are doing and make these cookies today. Now you can eat cheesecake on the go thanks to these littlecream cheese cookies.

You will not believe how delicious something so easy to make can be! It only takes a few minutes to whip up these cookies but the finished product is something out of this world!

Whether you need something spectacular for a bake sale or just a tasty dessert, this recipe is a must try. Everyone loves these light and fluffy cookies.

What do Cream Cheese Cookies taste like?

These cream cheese cookies are bite size cheesecake. They are light, fluffy and melt in your mouth. These perfectly sweet cookie have a hint of vanilla but the cream cheese takes them to the next level.

Dusted with powdered sugar, these are the perfect cookies to make for the next holiday or your next bake sale.

What type of Cream Cheese to use in Baking?

Use the cream cheese that comes in a brick form and not the one in a tub. The cream cheese in a tub is generally softer and meant for spreading. It’s not the best for baking.

Also, I recommend using full fat cream cheese to get all the flavor in these cookies. Using the reduce fat cream cheese doesn’t hold up as well in this recipe.

Cheesecake Cookies Ingredients:

• Cream Cheese
• Butter
• Granulated Sugar
• Eggs
• Vanilla Extract
• All-purpose Flour
• Baking Powder
• Salt
• Powdered Sugar

How to make Cheesecake Cookies:

• Prepare Oven and baking sheets – Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone mats.
• Mix butter and Cream Cheese – Beat butter and cream cheese together at high speed until fluffy and smooth. This will only take a couple of minutes.
• Mix in Sugar – Add sugar to the butter mixture and beat until fully combined and fluffy.
• Add egg and Vanilla – Beat in the eggs and vanilla and continue mixing.

• Mix dry ingredients – In a separate medium size bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt.

• Mix the dry ingredients with the butter mixture – Gradually add the dry ingredients to the butter mixture. The stir just until combined. Do not over-mix.

• Refrigerate dough – Place batter in fridge for 10-20 minutes to firm.
• Add dough balls to baking sheet – Drop by rounded tablespoons onto the lined baking sheets about 2 inches apart.

• Bake Cookies – Place the cookies in the oven to bake for 10-11 minutes. Note that cookies should be light in color, not browned. Just lightly golden brown. Bake times will vary based on your oven.
• Cool Cookies – Cool cookies on the baking sheet for a few minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.

• Serve and Enjoy – Sprinkle with powdered sugar. It is that simple.

What to top these cookies with:

These cookies are not overly sweet. I love topping them with powdered sugar to add just a bit of sweetness.

If you want them to be sweeter, you can top them with a glaze or frosting as well. A lemon glaze would be perfect over this cheesecake cookies.

Cheesecake Cookie Recipe Tips:

• I highly recommend using acookie scoop.Youwillthank me later because it saves so much time on spooning out the cookies.

• Another handy kitchen item I like to use are thesebaking linersto bake my cookies. Clean up is easy and the cookies turn out perfectly every time! You can also use baking sheet with parchment paper. We love using the silicone baking liners though because they are reusable and work really well.

• Use ingredients that are at room temperature. Room temperature ingredients mix more evenly and bake more evenly.

• Make sure to measure your flour correctly. First fluff the flour. Fill the measuring cup with flour and level it on with a knife. Do not pack the flour into the measuring cup.

• This dough is very sticky. I recommend damping your hands or the cookie scoop when putting the dough on the baking sheet.

• The dough does need to be chilled before baking so don’t skip this step. This helps keep the cookies fluffy and not flat.

• Bake these cookies on the center rack. This will ensure that the cookies will bake more evenly.

Can you use Cream Cheese instead of Butter?

In most cookie recipes, you can use cream cheese instead of butter. I prefer to use half and half instead of replacing all the butter with cream cheese.

However, you can use all cream cheese when baking. Just watch the cooking time as the bake times will differ.

Do these Cookies need to be Refrigerated?

Typically items with a large amount of cream cheese will need to be refrigerated such as cheese cake. Baked good with a smaller amount of cream cheese do not have to be refrigerated.

The cookies have a smaller amount of cream cheese and should be fine store in just an air tight container.

Perfect Cookies for the Holidays:

They are simple enough to make any day of the year but special enough for holidays. They are so tasty and delicious and sure to be a hit. These cookies would be perfect for a Christmas Exchange Party.

Everyone will love these cookies and they are so very simple to make! The flavor is amazing and the cookie is so rich and creamy.

Cheesecake is so amazing. Now you can enjoy a cookie with all the delicious flavors of cheesecake that melts in your mouth.

Variation Ideas:

• Chocolate Chips – Add in ½ cups of chocolate chips to make chocolate chip cream cheese cookies.
• Almond Extract – You can use almond extract instead of vanilla extract for a slightly different flavor.
• Roll Dough in Powdered Sugar – Instead of topping in powder sugar, rolled the dough in powder sugar before baking. This gives the cookies a crinkle look.
• Cinnamon Sugar – You can also roll the dough in a cinnamon sugar mixture before baking as well.
• Peanut Butter – Add a small amount of peanut butter to make peanut butter cheesecake cookies.

Feel free to adjust the recipe to try different variations of cheesecake that you love. We have a blast trying new things and they are so yummy too.

How to Store:

Store these cookies at room temperature in an air tight container for up to 1 week. I keep a piece of white bread in the container with the cookies to keep them soft.

These cookies are great to make in advance. Since these cookies have simple ingredients, I like to have them already prepared especially during the holidays.

Can you freeze these cookies?

You can also freezer these cookies in a freezer safe bag or container for up to 3 months. Defrost them out at room temperature and they are ready to enjoy!

These cookies are easy to freeze. You can easily double to batch so that you have them ready to go for your next bake sale.

Print recipe below for cheesecake cookies:

Try these other easy cookie recipes:

• Funfetti Cake Mix Cookies
• Chocolate Crinkle Cookie Recipe
• 4th of July Cake Mix Cookies Recipe
• Russian Tea Cakes
• Cake Mix Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
• Lemon Cool Whip Cookies

More Cream Cheese Desserts to Try:

• Cream Cheese Cake Mix Cookies
• Chocolate Oreo Lasagna Recipe
• Cinnamon Roll Poke Cake Recipe
• Sopapilla Cheesecake Recipe