Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Cookies. This is a slightly healthier version of traditional chocolate chip cookies because margarine and cream cheese replace straight butter. They bake up moist and cake-like and have a delicious taste. The dough seems more buttery, which is ironic since there's actually less butter used, not more. I can't taste the cream cheese, but it adds depth, density, and richness that my regular chocolate chip cookies don't have. Use cream cheese in a block or the spreadable kind.

Smoosh it into a one-quarter cup measure and cream it with the butter and sugars. This cream cheese chocolate chip cookie recipe starts the way most cookie recipes do by creaming the butter and sugar in a mixer. Simply add in the cream cheese along with the butter, beating together with the sugars until light and fluffy. You can have Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Cookies using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Cookies

It's 2 stick of unsalted butter (at room temp).
You need 8 oz of cream cheese (at room temp).
You need 1/2 cup of granulated sugar.
It's 1/2 cup of brown sugar.
You need 2 cup of flour.
Prepare 2 tsp of vanilla extract.
It's 1 tsp of baking powder.
You need 1/2 tsp of baking soda.
You need 1 tsp of salt.
You need 1 1/2 cup of chocolate chips (i used milk and dark).

This will take several minutes and is an important step. Replace the semisweet chocolate chips with milk chocolate chips, or replace half of them with peanut butter or white chocolate chips. Cream cheese chocolate chip cookies are an incredible thing. They're super soft, chewy, oozing with chocolate chips, and have a mild, almost creamy flavor thanks to the cream cheese.

Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Cookies instructions

Preheat oven to 375°F Fahrenheit. Line cookie sheet with parchment paper..
Cream butter and cream cheese until thoroughly combined..
Add sugar and vanilla..
In a bowl, mix flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt..
Add flour mixture 1 cup at a time to cream cheese mixture until well combined. (Dough will be very sticky).
Stir in chocolate chips..
Spoon on baking sheet. I used 1/2 tablespoon for measuring but you can use 1 if you prefer larger cookies. They will not flatten out a lot..
Bake 10 to 12 Minutes depending on size. Let cool on baking sheet for a few minutes, then let cool completely on a wire rack..

They'll honestly change how you think about chocolate chip cookies forever. In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter and cream cheese with an electric mixer until smooth. Whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt. Beat butter, cream cheese, sugar, and brown sugar until fluffy. I love cream cheese chocolate chip cookies!