You love cookies, you love cheesecake— heck you love dessert, so do I! Let’s celebrate it with a mash-up of two classics: chocolate chip cookies and cheesecake. What’s not love?
Chocolate Chip Cookie Cheesecake Bars
Here’s a question, have you ever been caught double fisting food like a toddler in a high chair or opening wide for a bite, by wide I mean, when your jaw becomes unhinged-not attractive.
Keeping those two things in mind and having a bowl left of chocolate chip cookie dough, I decided time to get a mash-up going in a mini sort of way by using Wilton’s mini brownie pan. I have to admit I was a little worried they would be difficult to pop out or they just might crumble while being removed from the pan, but neither proved to be true.
The best part about these bars is they are super easy to make and always a hit.
A few notes:
- For the chocolate chip cookie portion, I used my favorite recipe found here. Feel free to use your favorite recipe or ready-made cookie dough to short cut the time.
- You can bypass using the brownie bite pan and just use a regular 8×8 pan and then increase the bake time to 30minutes.
- If you are using Wilton’s Brownie Bite pan, it works out much better if you prep each well manually by smearing the bake spray in each well one at a time, rather than doing a sweeping spray of the whole pan. The latter tends to leave heavy pools of bake spray here and there.
- Do not try to remove these from the pan while warm or they will crumble. Once cooled the bars will pull away slightly from the walls and make for easy removal.
- Unrelated: Bark recipe will be up tomorrow . . . I’m really excited about this one! And don’t forget to enter the LeCreuset Holiday giveaway here.
Chocolate Chip Cookie Cheesecake Bars
24 mini bites (using Wilton’s Brownie Bite pan) | Preparation: Heat oven 350 degrees F. Cover each well with bake spray.
Chocolate chip cookie dough:
- Chocolate chip cookie dough recipe found here
Cheesecake:
- 8 oz. cream cheese, room temperature
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions:
- Add cream cheese and sugar in a bowl and beat until well blended. Add in eggs and vanilla and beat until blended.
- Press approximately ½ teaspoon of dough into each well. Add approximately ½ teaspoon of cheesecake mixture on top of bottom layer. Crumble remaining cookie dough and spread on top of cheesecake layer.
- Bake at 350 degrees for about 10-15 minutes or until inserted toothpick into the cheesecake portion comes out clean. Remove pan from oven and place on a wire rack to completely cool before removing chocolate chip cookie and cheesecake bars. Store refrigerated in an airtight container.
oooh these sound so good & they look easy to make! my kind of holiday dessert 🙂 love that photo!!
These are drool worthy and I love that they are bite size.
Oh man, those sound sooo good! I can’t wait to give them a try
Whoa. These are absolutely heavenly!
Wishing I had one of these for after dinner tonight!
i LOVE brownie bites, and bites made out of chocolate chip cookie dough (best type of cookie dough) and cheesecake is bound to be even more delicious! 😀
Cookie Dough & Cheesecake all in one brownie bite… Sounds incredible! I would love to have one right now as a midnight snack 🙂 Wonderful recipe Naomi!
these look crazy good. and they’re fat free, right? 🙂
I’m just so into it! 😀
OMG!! Love! What an excellent combination! Pinning this to make later.
PINNED!! Looks so delicious!
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You are evil with all this sweet goodness! 🙂
Naomi, this is just plain evil. And ridiculously delicious looking. Holiday season is already tough enough to hold off on all that good food and now you put this in my face? Evil. And love it.
I do not know what good I have done in the past to deserve something as wonderful as this for a treat. This is just perfect! Choco chip, cheesecake and chocolate all in a bar…Whatever list I have of things to do for today, has to be postponed, I am alotting today to make this! Thanks for sharing. Yum!
I’ve always wondered how well that Wilton Brownie Pan worked. Sounds like is was a success! Rich and chocolaty – love it!!
Who can withstand.. when you put these two together…
Those look so amazingly delicious. Now, I just have to find someone to make them for me!
I need this in my life. Can I come live near you?!
Hey Naomi!
Just wanted to wish you a Happy and Healthy 2012! I really wish I had seen these bars earlier, they would have been perfect for a bake sale I had recently. Beautiful photography!
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Why goodbye any of those weight loss goals I may have teased myself with for 2012 and hello heaven. These bars look awesome.
What a delicious looking combination! Cream cheese and chocolate are definitely two of my favorite baking ingredients.
I made these when family came over they were a hit with everyone!
I had to change two things: I only had light brown sugar so I added 1-tsp of molasses to help give the cookie dough the flavor that was talked about. Then I only had salted butter so I cut back on the salt amount of the recipe to 1/2 tsp. Using the mini-muffin tins I was able to make 48 of these pop in your mouth treats.