Cherry Cheesecake Cookies

Cherry cheesecake cookies have all of the flavors of conventional cheesecake – in cookie kind. They’ll be a brand new household favourite for years to return!

A couple of years in the past, Elle and I had been choosing up some vacation baking necessities on the retailer whereas I had a huuuuge longing for cherry cheesecake. However we had been proper subsequent to a bunch of cookie-baking provides, and it struck me. 

Cherry cheesecake COOKIES.

You guys know that my household adores cheesecake. We’ve it for birthdays as an alternative of standard cake, and it’s all the time on our vacation tables.

 From my nana’s straightforward cheesecake to lemon cheesecake, my household has a cheesecake for almost each event. 

We even flip our cupcakes into cheesecake with cherry cheesecake cupcakes. So after all we’d love these cookies, too!

What are cherry cheesecake cookies?

These cherry cheesecake cookies are just about a cheesecake model of thumbprint cookies.

You’ll whip up a cookie dough and cheesecake filling individually. Then, mildew the cookie dough right into a bowl-like form, with just a little indentation. Spoon or pipe the cheesecake filling into every little indentation, and bake ’em up.

The cookie dough has graham cracker crumbs in it, so that you get the flavour of a graham cracker crust.

As soon as they’re baked, you’ll high each with some cherry pie filling (as a result of what’s cheesecake with out cherries?!), and there you’ve gotten it. Cherry cheesecake in an lovable cookie kind!

The way to make my cherry cheesecake cookies

These candy little bites would possibly look sophisticated, however they’re really tremendous straightforward to make. And the components are fairly fundamental, so that you would possibly simply have every thing readily available already!

Components you’ll want

To make these candy little cookies, you’ll want:

• 1 ¼ cups finely crushed graham crackers 
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
• 12 tablespoons softened unsalted butter 
• ½ cup packed mild brown sugar
• 1 egg, white and yolk separated
• 4 ounces softened cream cheese 
• ¼ cup granulated sugar
• ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• selfmade cherry pie filling

Earlier than you begin baking, be sure to know tips on how to measure flour appropriately. This can assist your cherry cheesecake cookies to return out good each time.

You should purchase graham cracker crumbs from the shop or crush complete graham crackers to make your individual. You’ll want about 1 sleeve of graham crackers for 1 1/4 cups of crumbs.

Brown sugar provides a richness and chewiness to the cookie dough. If you’re out of brown sugar, strive making a easy brown sugar substitute.

In case your brown sugar hardened within the pantry, try my tips for softening brown sugar.

Home made cherry pie filling is all the time my go-to for topping these cookies, however be happy to make use of store-bought if that’s simpler for you. I attempt to purchase the “additional fruit” pie fillings so there’s plenty of cherries in it.

Making these cookies

Begin by making the graham cracker cookie dough. Whisk collectively the graham cracker crumbs, flour, and baking powder.

In a separate bowl, use a mixer to cream the butter and brown sugar till mild and fluffy. This can take about 3 minutes. Add the egg white and blend till properly mixed.

Stir the dry components into the butter combination till simply mixed.

Now make the cheesecake filling. In one other bowl, beat collectively the cream cheese and granulated sugar till mixed. Add the egg yolk and vanilla extract and blend till the filling is easy.

Use a medium cookie scoop (about 1.5 tablespoons) to scoop the cookie dough onto lined baking sheets. Press your thumb or a spherical measuring spoon till the middle of every ball to barely flatten and create a bowl form within the middle.

Spoon or pipe the cream cheese filling into every indentation. 

Bake the cookies at 350°F for 12 minutes; the filling ought to be barely set and the cookies shall be evenly golden once they’re finished.

Let the cookies cool for five minutes on the baking sheets earlier than transferring them to a wire rack to chill fully.

Earlier than serving, high every cookie with a spoonful of cherry pie filling.

Storing these cookies

Retailer cherry cheesecake cookies in an hermetic container within the fridge for as much as 3 days. Retailer the cookies with out the cherry pie filling; wait to high them with the filling till simply earlier than serving.

You possibly can freeze the cookies in an hermetic container or zip-top freezer bag for as much as a month. Let the cookies thaw within the fridge in a single day or at room temperature for a few hours.