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Cream Cheese Cookie Recipe

Published December 3, 2020 Last Modified December 7, 2020 By GreedyEats

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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! 

Try my Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies next! Find all Cookie Recipes at one place.

Cream Cheese Cookies topped with confectioners' sugar are perfect for your Christmas Tray.

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:


Chilled cream cheese cookie dough in a glass bowl with a cookie scoop in it.

Cream Cheese Cookie dough balls ready to be baked
Freshly baked cheese cake cookies cooling down on a baking tray.

  • 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

A stack of soft Cream Cheese Cookies made with easy ingredients, sprinkled with powdered sugar.

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. 

Cream Cheese Cookie Recipe that makes soft, thick and chewy cookies.

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

Puffy Cream Cheese Cake Sugar Cookies sprinkled with confectioners' sugar kept on a golden plate.

More Cream Cheese Recipes:

Easy Pumpkin Bars

Cream Cheese Chocolate Cookies

Banana Cupcakes topped with Cream Cheese Frosting

Pecan Pie Cookies

 

If you liked these Cookies give it a star review. Also, tell me in the comments below, how did this turn out for you! And don’t forget to share your creations with me on Instagram at #greedyeatsblog Also follow me on Pinterest and Facebook! 

Cream Cheese Cookie Recipe

An easy Cream Cheese Cookie Recipe that bakes soft, chewy and puffy. These cookies require only 1 hour of chilling time! 
5 from 10 votes
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Course: Dessert, Snack
Cuisine: American
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Chilling Time: 1 hour
Total Time: 1 hour 20 minutes
Servings 22 Cookies
Calories: 130kcal
Author: Neha

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 tsp Vanilla Extract
  • 1 tsp Almond Extract (optional, but delicious)
  • ½ tsp 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.
    Beaten butter, cream cheese and sugar in a glass mixing bowl.
  • 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.
    Cream Cheese Cookie dough balls ready to be baked
  • Allow to cool the cookie for 5 minutes on the tray and then transfer to a wire stand to cool further down.
    Freshly baked cheese cake cookies cooling down on a baking tray.

Notes

Storing Information:
  • 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.
Sprinkling powdered sugar over cookies:
When the cookie are cooled down, you can sprinkle them with powdered sugar. This step is optional, but it makes cookies look prettier.

Nutrition

Serving: 1Cookie | Calories: 130kcal | Carbohydrates: 17g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 6g | Sodium: 57mg | Sugar: 9g
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Comments

  1. Ylli

    December 14, 2020 at 3:48 pm

    Can we use anything to coat them

    Reply
    • GreedyEats

      December 14, 2020 at 4:40 pm

      I'd say melted chocolate. Just like you would coat a cake pop!

      Reply
  2. Natalie

    December 07, 2020 at 5:12 am

    5 stars
    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.

    Reply
  3. Sam

    December 07, 2020 at 1:14 am

    Yum, these cookies look so delicious. I love how soft and chewy they are. Can't wait to try them.

    Reply
  4. Gunjan

    December 06, 2020 at 10:38 pm

    5 stars
    Amazing cookies with delectable flavors. Totally a fan of these. Kids went crazy after these cookies.

    Reply
  5. Melanie

    December 06, 2020 at 10:13 pm

    My kids are total cookie monsters, I think they'll love these!

    Reply
  6. Laura Arteaga

    December 06, 2020 at 3:54 pm

    5 stars
    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!

    Reply
  7. Jenny

    December 06, 2020 at 12:13 pm

    5 stars
    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!

    Reply
  8. Tracy

    December 06, 2020 at 1:26 am

    5 stars
    These were SO good. My family absolutely loved them, thank you! We can't wait to share with friends for Christmas!

    Reply
  9. Tara

    December 05, 2020 at 11:57 pm

    5 stars
    I say yes to cream cheese everyday. What a delicious and soft cookie. Definitely adding it to my cookie box this year!

    Reply
    • Anonymous

      December 06, 2020 at 11:08 am

      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.

      Reply
  10. Kathryn Donangelo

    December 04, 2020 at 11:15 am

    5 stars
    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!

    Reply
  11. veenaazmanov

    December 04, 2020 at 5:32 am

    5 stars
    Perfect recipe and perfect time of the festive season. So easy and yet so delicious, soft, moist and fluffy.

    Reply
  12. Jane Saunders

    December 04, 2020 at 4:26 am

    5 stars
    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.

    Reply

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