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