Sugar Cookie Cups with Cream Cheese Filling

Description

If you can’t decide between cookies or cheesecake now you don’t have to. This would be good with chocolate chip or peanut butter cookie cups also.

Ingredients

  • ½ cup butter
  • ½ cup white sugar, or more as needed, divided
  • 1 egg
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
  • ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • ¼ teaspoon baking soda
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
  • ¼ cup white sugar
  • 2 tablespoons white sugar
  • 1 egg

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line 18 cupcake cups with paper liners.
  2. Beat butter
  3. sugar
  4. egg
  5. and vanilla extract together using an electric mixer in a mixing bowl until smooth.
  6. Sift 1 1/2 cups plus 2 tablespoons flour
  7. baking powder
  8. baking soda
  9. and salt together in a separate bowl. Mix into butter mixture until combined.
  10. Place 1 teaspoon of batter into each of the prepared cupcake cups. Sprinkle each cup with a little sugar.
  11. Bake in the preheated oven until golden
  12. about 10 minutes. Remove from the oven and indent each cup using a teaspoon-sized measuring spoon. Let cool 10 minutes.
  13. While cookie cups cool
  14. beat cream cheese
  15. 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar
  16. and egg together using an electric mixer in a mixing bowl until smooth. Place a little more than 1 teaspoon of filling into each cookie cup. Sprinkle with sugar.
  17. Bake in the preheated oven until filling sets
  18. 10 to 15 minutes more. Let cool completely before serving.

Prep Time: 20 mins

Cook Time: 20 mins

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins

Servings: 18

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