Strawberry Cheesecake Cookie Recipe - Easy, delicious light and fluffy cookies with a creamy center, topped with a heart-shaped strawberry. Perfect Valentine's Day dessert recipe!
Happy Monday! I have the cutest little cookie recipe for you today-Strawberry Cheesecake Cookies! I wanted to make these cookies because I was inspired by a recipe that I shared a whopping five years ago-Strawberry Cheesecake Bites. I decided to alter the recipe just a tad to give them more of a cookie texture but they still have all the delicious flavor and creaminess of cheesecake!
It's funny because in my original recipe I talk about my then 4 year old and how he's obsessed with strawberries, and he still is now at nine! In fact, I had three pints just sitting in my fridge because he goes through them so quickly!
These cookies are not hard to make but there are a few notes for the result to come out good.
Ingredients
- cheese
- butter
- sugar
- egg
- lemon juice
- flour
- strawberries
Step by step
- Cream together butter and cream cheese until light and fluffy.
- Add sugar, egg, and lemon juice and mix well.
- Add flour a little at a hand, stirring by hand until just blended.
- Cover and refrigerate at least 2 hours.
- When ready to bake roll the dough into balls and flatten slightly.
- Bake ten minutes while you prep your strawberry hearts.
- Add strawberries immediately after removing from the oven, then cool before eating.
Tips for best results
- Start with room temperature butter and cream cheese (neufachel is okay too) and whip it for at least two minutes so it's extremely light and fluffy.
- Chill the dough at least two hours, when I tested the recipe I preferred to chill it overnight as it's quite sticky
- Do not overbake and remove cookies from the pan to a cooling rack within five minutes
- Add the strawberries immediately while cookies are still very soft.
- Do not place dough on a hot pan, alternate cookie sheets or wait until the pan is cool between batches.
You might also like these strawberry recipes:
- Strawberry Crisp
- Strawberry Cake
- Strawberry Muffins
- Chocolate Chip Strawberry Cake
- Strawberry Danish
- Strawberry Banana Bread
If you’ve tried this recipe please comment and rate it below, I love hearing from you!
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Strawberry Cheesecake Cookies
- Prep Time: 10 min
- Cook Time: 10 min
- Total Time: 2 hours 20 minutes
- Yield: 30 cookies 1x
- Category: dessert
- Method: baking
- Cuisine: American
Description
Strawberry Cheesecake Cookie Recipe - Easy, delicious light and fluffy cookies with a creamy center, topped with a heart-shaped strawberry. Perfect Valentine's Day dessert recipe!
Ingredients
- 8 oz cream cheese, softened
- 7 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
- 1 ¼ cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 2 ½ cups self-rising flour
- approximately 1 pint of strawberries
Instructions
- In a mixer combine cream cheese and butter and beat on medium-high speed at least two minutes until light and fluffy.
- Reduce mixer speed and add in sugar, lemon juice, then eggs one at a time and mix until uniform.
- Remove bowl from mixer and slowly add flour a little at a time and stir by hand until just blended, do not overmix.
- Refrigerate at least two hours or overnight (covered).
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Line a baking sheet with a baking mat or parchment paper.
- Use a cookie scoop to measure out 1" balls of dough. Roll in your hands and place on the prepared baking sheet. Flatten balls slightly with your hand or the back of a spoon.
- Bake for ten minutes. In the meantime, cut off top of strawberries, halve them, then notch the top into a heart shape if desired.
- Remove baking sheet from oven and immediately press strawberry halves into the top. Remove from pan to cooling rack and allow to cool ten minutes.
- Store in a covered container in the refrigerator up to one week.
Keywords: strawberry, Cheesecake, Cookies
I hope you love these as much as our family did, I think they are just adorable for Valentine's Day! Let me know what you think in the comments below!
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