Do you ever find yourself wavering when faced with a choice of desserts? Do I want cookies? Do I want cheesecake? With this dessert, you can have both.
Rather than a traditional graham cracker crust, I decided to up the chocolate chip ante and make a chocolate chip cookie crust. So, underneath all that cheesecake goodness, there’s a big, thick layer of chocolate chip cookie.
And, for good measure, the cheesecake is topped off with a little extra cookie dough. I know, right? What’s not to love about these?
This is the kind of dessert you can use to make new friends. Or make current friends even better friends. If you decide not to share, just don’t tell anyone about them and keep the friends you have.
Ingredients
- 1 & 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
To make the crust:
Preheat oven to 350°. Lightly grease an 8-inch square baking pan. Line with parchment paper or aluminum foil, leaving an overhang on two opposite sides. Lightly grease lining.
Whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
Using an electric mixer on medium speed, beat butter, sugar, and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Add egg and vanilla, and mix well.
Reduce mixer speed to low, and gradually add flour mixture. Mix just until combined. Stir in chocolate chips.
Reserve about 1/2 cup of crust mixture. Press remaining crust mixture evenly into bottom of prepared pan.
To make the filling:
Beat cream cheese and sugar with an electric mixer until well-blended. Mix in egg and vanilla, beating until smooth.
Pour filling on top of crust and spread evenly. Drop reserved crust mixture over the top of the filling.
Bake 35-40 minutes, or until edges are lightly browned and center is set.
Cool completely in pan. Then, using the overhanging liner, lift bars out of pan onto a cutting board. Use a sharp knife to cut into bars.
Store tightly covered in your refrigerator.
Notes
If you are feeding a crowd, this recipe is easily doubled to be baked in a 9”x 13”x 2” pan.
March 6th, 2013 at 12:46 pm
Holy cow! That must be an explosion of texture and flavor. I’m going hiking in a couple of weeks, and it would serve me well to learn how to make these. I daresay that just one of them contains enough of the good stuff to keep me moving for a few more miles.
March 6th, 2013 at 1:23 pm
Putting them on a chocolate chip cookie bar is genius!
March 6th, 2013 at 1:29 pm
I’ve been wanting to try this dessert combination for forever! Chocolate chip cookies basically meld well with anything!
March 6th, 2013 at 2:20 pm
Wow, these bars are gorgeous. I often can’t decide on one dessert, so when I have one of those times, this will be an option! I’m all for going over the top for dessert when it looks like this!
March 6th, 2013 at 2:37 pm
Wow these look DELISH! Chocolate cookies and cheesecakes … two of my favorite things … great idea to combine them. I will definitely be giving this recipe a try.
March 6th, 2013 at 4:10 pm
I love the pieces of cookie dough speckled on top. What a creative cheesecake, I can’t wait to try!
March 7th, 2013 at 7:34 am
These look awesome! Gotta love anything chocolate chip and cheesecake!
March 7th, 2013 at 12:25 pm
Oh wow! I love any type of cookie bar and these look delicious!
March 8th, 2013 at 11:45 am
I know that most people will say that chocolate makes everything better (and these do have chocolate) but I think cheese cake makes everything better! Happily, these have something for everyone!
March 10th, 2013 at 4:59 am
I made these tonight and they hadn’t even cooled down and the sweet tooth vultures were cutting into them. I doubled the recipe and it was perfect for a 9″x13″ pan.
Now that the bars have cooled down, their flavor is even better. This recipe is definitely a keeper. Thank you for the recipe Jennifer.
March 10th, 2013 at 6:15 pm
Mmm yum, these sound so good!
March 12th, 2013 at 2:52 pm
what a brilliant amalgamation of treats!
March 16th, 2013 at 4:52 pm
These sounded so good. In reality they are hideous. They are so sweet I threw the whole thing out. Awful, awful. I am a bsker with 50 years of experience and these are simply terrible. In and of themselves and not because I did anything wrong.
March 22nd, 2013 at 8:46 am
This cheesecake recipe looks wonderful!
March 22nd, 2013 at 3:43 pm
I made this recipe for my non-profit organizations last meeting and they were a huge hit! I even had some of the women asking me if they could take some home to their spouses! Thank you for providing such great things to make!