An easy Cream Cheese Cookie Recipe that bakes soft, chewy, puffy and they are melt in your mouth delicious. These cookies require only 1 hour of chilling time!
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Taste and Texture:
- Chewy and sweet with a slight tangy flavor from cheese.
- Soft and Puffy
- Dotted with tart cranberries and sweet chocolate chips
Cream Cheese cookies ingredients:
Cream Cheese: You will require full far cream cheese at room temperature. Make sure you DON'T buy cream cheese spread.
Extracts: While only vanilla extract works well to flavor them, adding a little almond extract will add to their charm. Try it!
Cake Flour: Since cake flour contains a bit of cornstarch, we have already made sure these are the softest cookies to come out of your oven! 😉
Sugar: Only granulated sugar is required for this recipe to make chewier cookies.
How to make Cream Cheese Cookies:
- Always begin with room temp butter and cream cheese. Beat them well
- Next goes in sugar. Beat for a minute or so
- Add egg and extracts and beat again
- Add and fold cake flour and baking powder in 2-3 additions. Form dough
- Chill, make balls and bake
Do cookies made with cream cheese need to be refrigerated?
In my experience, refrigeration is not required to store cream cheese cookies. Since they contain only a small amount of cream cheese and it gets baked well, cookies will remain good stored at room temp for a few days.
Can you use cream cheese instead of butter in cookies?
Yes of course. And this recipe here is the proof. 😉 Try cream cheese chocolate chip cookies by subbing half of the butter with cream cheese! Or make these White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies.
What is the secret to making soft cookies?
- Using some cornstarch in cookies, make them super soft
- Under baking cookies is an another genius trick to help cookies bake soft and stay soft for days
- Replacing some butter in the cookie dough with cream cheese makes them incredibly soft and puffy
More Cream Cheese Recipes:
Cream Cheese Chocolate Cookies
Banana Cupcakes topped with Cream Cheese Frosting
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Recipe
Cream Cheese Cookie Recipe
Equipment
- Baking Tray
- Silicon Mat/Parchment Paper
Ingredients
- ½ Cup Butter (Salted, at room temperature)
- 4 Ounces Cream Cheese (at room temperature, not cream cheese spread)
- 1 Cup Granulated sugar
- 1 large Egg (at room temperature)
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 1 teaspoon Almond Extract (optional, but delicious)
- ½ teaspoon Baking Powder
- 1 ¾ Cup Cake Flour
Instructions
- Beat butter and cream cheese together till well creamed and lightened. Add and beat in the sugar for a minute. Next add in egg and extracts. Beat it in until combined.
- Sift and add cake flour and baking powder in 2-3 additions. Mix it all in and form the dough.
- Cover and chill the dough for an hour in refrigerator. When ready to bake, preheat oven to 375 deg F. Take the dough out of refrigerator and divide it into 20-22 balls.
- Place them on lined baking tray and bake for about 9-11 minutes or till the cookies look puffy and the underside edges will appear golden.
- Allow to cool the cookie for 5 minutes on the tray and then transfer to a wire stand to cool further down.
Notes
- Cookies stay fresh stored at room temperature covered tightly for 2-3 days.
- Baked or unbaked cookie dough balls can be frozen for up to 2 months. No need to thaw dough balls before baking, just bake them for a minute longer.
Ylli
Can we use anything to coat them
GreedyEats
I'd say melted chocolate. Just like you would coat a cake pop!
Natalie
I bet these cookies taste heavenly delicious. Just looks at them... they are so yummy! I'm saving this recipe. I must make them for Christmas.
Sam
Yum, these cookies look so delicious. I love how soft and chewy they are. Can't wait to try them.
Gunjan
Amazing cookies with delectable flavors. Totally a fan of these. Kids went crazy after these cookies.
Melanie
My kids are total cookie monsters, I think they'll love these!
Laura Arteaga
Yummy! I love soft cookies and these look like will go down amazingly at home! thanks for sharing the recipe, we'll try it soon!
Jenny
These cookies are lovely! I like using cream cheese in baking, and your cookies are calling my name! Thank you for the detailed recipe. I will be making these tonight!
Tracy
These were SO good. My family absolutely loved them, thank you! We can't wait to share with friends for Christmas!
Tara
I say yes to cream cheese everyday. What a delicious and soft cookie. Definitely adding it to my cookie box this year!
Anonymous
I can’t wait to make them. I love to try different recipes . My family say that I’m a recipe nut because I like to try lots of different recipes.
Kathryn Donangelo
Delicious! These Cream Cheese Cookies are so tasty, buttery and melted in my mouth. Loved the almond extract flavor and reminded me of shortbread but so much better, thank you!
veenaazmanov
Perfect recipe and perfect time of the festive season. So easy and yet so delicious, soft, moist and fluffy.
Jane Saunders
I've always wondered if cookies like this had to be refrigerated, so thanks for clarifying they do not. Your instructions and images make this recipe very easy to follow - thankyou.