Strawberry Cheesecake Cookies
The homemade cookies are easy to make with real strawberries. They are soft, buttery and packed with strawberry flavor with a decadent cheesecake filling.
Servings 30
Calories 161kcal
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter softened
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs large
- 3 tbsp strawberry preserves
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- ¼ cup graham cracker crumbs plus more for sprinkling on finished cookies
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ¼ tsp salt
- ¾ cup strawberries finely diced
Cheesecake Filling
- 5 oz cream cheese
- ⅓ cup sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 egg white large
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- In a large bowl, cream together the butter, brown sugar and sugar until light and fluffy with a mixer on medium speed.
- Add the vanilla extract and egg and mix at low speed until combined.
- Add the strawberry preserves and mix at medium-low speed until combined.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, graham cracker crumbs, baking soda and salt.
- Mix a small amount of the dry ingredients at a time to the wet ingredients on medium-low speed until combined.
- Gently fold in the diced strawberries with a wooden spoon or silicone spatula until evenly dispersed in the cookie dough.
- Next, prepare the cheesecake filling. In a medium bowl, mix the cream cheese and sugar at medium-high speed with a mixer until combined. Then mix in the egg white and vanilla until smooth.
- Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. If you have 2 cookie sheets prepare a second one or bake one batch at a time.
- Use a medium cookie scoop to drop cookie dough 2 inches apart on the cookie sheet with 15 cookies per sheet.
- Using a teaspoon, make an indent in each cookie dough mound. Fill the indent with 1 teaspoon of the cheesecake filling. Continue until all cookies are filled.
- Bake 10 to 12 minutes until lightly golden. Sprinkle cookies out of the oven with additional graham cracker crumbs for garnish, if desired. Allow cookies to sit for 5 minutes on the cookie sheet and then transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely.
- Once the cookies have cooled down, they can be enjoyed immediately or chilled in the fridge and then served.
Nutrition
Calories: 161kcal | Carbohydrates: 20g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 8g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 38mg | Sodium: 85mg | Potassium: 39mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 11g | Vitamin A: 277IU | Vitamin C: 2mg | Calcium: 15mg | Iron: 1mg
