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 yearning 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 have now it for birthdays as a substitute of standard cake, and it’s at all times on our vacation tables.

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

We even flip our cupcakes into cheesecake with cherry cheesecake cupcakes. So after all we might 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, mould the cookie dough right into a bowl-like form, with a little bit 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 every one with some cherry pie filling (as a result of what’s cheesecake with out cherries?!), and there you have got it. Cherry cheesecake in an lovable cookie kind!

Methods to make my cherry cheesecake cookies

These candy little bites may look difficult, however they’re truly tremendous straightforward to make. And the substances are fairly fundamental, so that you may simply have the whole lot 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 gentle brown sugar
• 1 egg, white and yolk separated
• 4 ounces softened cream cheese 
• ¼ cup granulated sugar
• ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• do-it-yourself cherry pie filling

Earlier than you begin baking, be sure to know easy methods to measure flour appropriately. This may assist your cherry cheesecake cookies to return out good each time.

You should buy graham cracker crumbs from the shop or crush complete graham crackers to make your personal. 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, attempt making a easy brown sugar substitute.

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

Home made cherry pie filling is at all times my go-to for topping these cookies, however be at liberty to make use of store-bought if that’s simpler for you. I attempt to purchase the “further fruit” pie fillings so there’s a number 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 gentle and fluffy. This may take about 3 minutes. Add the egg white and blend till effectively mixed.

Stir the dry substances 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 clean.

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 heart.

Spoon or pipe the cream cheese filling into every indentation. 

Bake the cookies at 350°F for 12 minutes; the filling must be barely set and the cookies will probably be flippantly golden after they’re carried out.

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

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.