These Chocolate Chip Cookie Cups with Cheesecake Filling are a delicious dessert! A cookie with a crisp outer edge and soft chewy middle filled with cheesecake makes this recipe irresistible!
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Chocolate Chip Cookie Cups with Cheesecake Filling
Who’s a fan of the cookie cup? I DEFINITELY am. They’re versatile, cute and can be filled with all kinds of deliciousness. Not to mention easy to make! They look hard to pull together, but really it’s not any harder than baking cookies. These Chocolate Chip Cookie Cups with Cheesecake Filling are simply amazing and worth trying if you haven’t made them before.
And don’t even getting started on the cheesecake filling. Cheesecake is one of my all-time favorite desserts, after the all-american classic chocolate chip cookie, so mixing the two….wow, just wow! I could eat just a bowl of cheesecake filling and be happy…well, I may have actually done that, but don’t tell anyone 🙂
I like making these when having a girl’s night or when asked to bring a dessert for the potluck. They’re like a single serve dessert that looks fancy, but simple to pull together.
Making the Cookie Cup
Making the actually cookie cup is part of the fun. You put the cookie dough in a mini cupcake pan. Bake. Then, you use your fingers or a spoon to depress the middle once they come out of the oven and have cooled for a little bit.
This is a pic of my amazing Strawberry Lemon Cookie Cups right after their middles have been indented, but before the fully strawberry filling is added. Like I said, it’s actually kinda fun to press them in and make the little cup 🙂
Chocolate Chip Cookie Cups with Cheesecake Filling
Ingredients
- 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup 2 sticks butter, softened
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs
- 2 cups 12-oz. pkg. semi-sweet chocolate chips
For Filling:
- 8 ounces cream cheese softened
- 4 tablespoons butter softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 1/2 cups powdered sugar
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Spray mini cupcake pan with non-stick spray.
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Combine flour, baking soda and salt in small bowl. Beat butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar and vanilla extract in large mixer bowl until creamy.
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Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition.
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Gradually beat in flour mixture. Stir in chocolate chips.
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Place 2 tablespoon of batter into each cupcake cup. Bake for 9 to 11 minutes or until golden brown. Cool in pan for 2 minutes.
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Using the end of a wooden spoon handle, indent the puffed cookie cups. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack to cool completely.
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In a small bowl, beat the cream cheese, butter and vanilla until smooth. Gradually beat in powdered sugar. Spoon or pipe into cookie cups. Store in the refrigerator.
Customize Your Cookie Cups
Chocolate Chip Cookie Cups are also perfect for an after school snack, or after dinner treat. It’s so cool that these cookie cups can be customized to your own taste because you can use a variety of fillings – yogurt and fruit, ice cream, chocolate, nuts and so much more! Get Creative!
TIP: To make your cookie cups pretty, use an icing bag with a fancy tip to pipe in your filling. Then top with shaved chocolate, nuts or candy.
More dessert recipes from Suburban Simplicity:
Strawberry Lemon Cookie Cups
No Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies
Amazing Oatmeal Butterscotch Cookies
Strawberry Shortcake in a Jar
What’s your favorite cookie or cookie cup recipe?
Happy Baking!
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Oh my goodness! My two favorite desserts in one. Looks like heaven!
Those look absolutely amazing, Erin! Have a great day! 🙂
Thanks, Mike! They look pretty, but are very easy to make! Let me know how they turn out for you if you decide to make them 🙂
Lucky us, we’ve got the ingredients at home and are making them right now. They are too cute.
Awesome! It’s like cookies and cream in one bite! So, so good! They are great for when you’re entertaining because they are single serve, well, if you eat only one that is 🙂
These look so delicious, and I’m glad that they are easy too.
Making for the weekend 4th gathering.
They’d be perfect for the 4th, Celeste! They make enough for a party and then some 🙂 I just love the flavor combination. Yu. Yum. Yum!
What a fun way to have a cookie. I love this idea. Pinning for later.
Thanks for the pin, Charlene! It is a fun way, so much goodness in one bite! You could fill them with chocolate or peanut butter filling and they’d be great too!
These look like I’ll eat more than I should so I’ll have to workout a little longer and harder!
That’s what I have to do…work out a little longer and a little harder. Ha! This one is too good to pass up!
Hi Erin, I really fancy this recipe, but thought I’d need a fancy tin to make the cookie cups. Such a simple idea that I would not have thought to do.
Pinning for future reference.
xx
Just a mini cupcake pan will do, Debbie. Nothing fancy…they just look fancy 🙂 Enjoy!
These look so good! I love cheesecake treats! We’d be delighted to have you share this at our weekly link party. http://www.thelifeofjenniferdawn.com/2016/06/farmers-market-meals-and-little-bird.html Hope to see you there!
They are good…not question about that! Thanks for coming by and I’ll check out the party!
I love these they are so cute and look delicious!
They are! Who could resist a chocolate chip cookie with a cream filling?? Too good! Thanks for stopping by, Lucy.
Oh YUM!! I am going to make these for my grandchildren. I love cookie cups.
Me too, Pamela! My all-time favorite cookie. With a little filling they are out of this world! Enjoy!
Drooling over here! Love this idea and can’t wait to try it!
You have to try it! It’s like cookies and cream in one bite!
Erin, is there a word that means more than delicious? If so, that’s what these look like! We are definitely going to make these, but this weekend I am using your idea for a dessert I’ve been waiting to try. I have the ingredients for lemon curd, but couldn’t think how I wanted to serve it. Your cookie cups are the perfect idea. I found a GF sugar cookie mix and I’m going to make it per your instructions, then fill with the lemon curd and a few blueberries! Thanks for sharing this, I was stumped. Now I have 2 new desserts to try. Brilliant, just brilliant!
These are so darn cute! (I love how you put them with big versions of small things!). I’ve never tried to make a cookie cup before, but you make it look so easy, I’ll have to give it a shot! Thanks for sharing with the Wednesday Showcase!
Cookie cups are so easy, Cristina! You should definitely give them a try. Just about any type of cookie will do…but chocolate chip is my favorite! Give it a try and let me know how it goes!
These look amazing and so delicious. Thanks for sharing at the Thursday Favorite Things Blog Hop.
They are amazing! I’ve had so many people try this recipe since it was posted and they are raving about it! They’ve filled it with everything from lemon curd to peanut butter…all good choices!
They look and sound amazing, Erin. I’ve been wanting to make cookie cups, and I’ve got to try these! 🙂
Thanks, Dee! These were a big hit at my bunco night! The girls loved them. The cookies where the perfect combination of crisp and chewy.
Yum!! My mouth is watering right now 🙂 These look so yummy, and I love how versatile they can be! Thanks for linking up with Merry Monday this week. I’m sharing this on Pinterest, Twitter & FB.
Ahh, thanks, Emily. They are sooo, so good! Who wouldn’t want to gobble these up? I appreciate the shares! Love your party. See you next week!
Erin, this puppy went into my recipe folder and my Yummly, although I’m not sure what that means. It will be made in my kitchen, although, a less beautiful, yet just as tasty, distant cousin. My baking makes up for in taste what it loses unabashedly in aesthetics.
Thanks for the add to your recipe folder and Yummly (whatever that means 🙂 I appreciate you stopping by and checking out the recipe. I’m a huge fan of the cookie cup right now, and these little bites are no exception!
This recipe is definitely for the larger cupcake size pans NOT the minis!!!! The mini pan will overflow if you use them. I used regular sized muffin pans and had GREAT success with the quantity of dough.
Any tips on freezing them for a party ??
Good question, Shreya. I haven’t frozen this recipe before, but I have frozen both chocolate chip cookies and cheesecake, so I would say, bake these and then freeze them and see how it goes. Just make sure you freeze them so that they maintain their shape and won’t get crushed.