In my haste to publish my post yesterday, I think I neglected to mention for the benefit of my non-Jewish readers that it’s traditional to eat dairy on the upcoming holiday of Shavuos/t. And so, while I generally bake everything non-dairy, in honor of the holiday, I pulled out my dairy mixer, bought more cream cheese and butter than I care to disclose, and got to work salivating over the recipes I will make. Cheesecakes and the like are a no-brainer, but I really wanted to make a cookie. I have to live up to my name as The Cookie Girl.
However, just using butter instead of my usual margarine didn’t seem worthy of my (basically) once a year dairy fest. No, I needed more.
A couple of minutes with my trusty pal Google, and I discovered this gem of a recipe. You start by browning the butter which you totally can’t do with margarine. Then you add cream cheese. Sure, I am known to use the toffuti variety on occasion, but let’s face it, there’s nothing like the real thing. Just in case this wasn’t already a lactose intolerant individual’s worst nightmare, I added some more dairy goodness in the form of chopped up milk chocolate, chopped up white chocolate (and chopped up dark chocolate to round it out).
The result: Well, you get a cookie that looks pretty ordinary, but then my tasters bit into it and a look of delightful shock spread across their face. A little hint, however: don’t, and I mean seriously, honestly really just don’t make these cookies if you’re on a diet. I am pretty sure hell is a place where you bake these cookies all day and never get to taste a bite.
Brown Butter Triple Chunk Cream Cheese Cookies
Adapted from Becky Bakes
Ingredients:
1 cup butter
4 oz cream cheese
3/4 cup brown sugar
3/4 cup white sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 1/4 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 (3.5 oz) bar milk chocolate, chopped
1 (3.5 oz) bar white chocolate, chopped
1 (3.5 oz) bar dark chocolate, chopped
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 375.
In a small saucepan, melt the butter over a medium flame until brown. Let cool.
In a large mixing bowl, cream together the butter, cream cheese, brown and white sugar until smooth and creamy.
Add in the eggs, one at a time, and the vanilla, beating well after each addition.
In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda and salt.
Slowly pour the flour into the mixing bowl, mix until just incorporated.
Using a wooden spoon, stir the three kinds of chocolate into the batter.
Form 1 inch balls of dough, and place on prepared cookie sheets. Bake at 375 for 8-10 minutes.
Cookies will come out of the oven slightly puffed. If you like a flatter look (as I do!) immediately press down on the cookies using a glass. (Don’t attempt this with your hands- the hot chocolate will burn you!)
Do I even have to say it? Enjoy!
Note: you can use two cups of chocolate chips (your choice of variety) instead of the cut up bars.
I have (at least) one more delicious dairy recipe for you, so come back soon! What interesting dairy recipes are you making? Please share your ideas in the comment section below. 🙂 -Miriam
they look yummy. and so good that they must be not so healthy 🙂
These might just be the most amazing cookies ever! So happy to be your brown butter win for today. We rock!
oh. my.
love the sound of these. think i’m making them!
thanks miriam.
Hi Miriam, I saw that you tweeted you made some healthy choco cheese muffins, I was looking for a more nutritious version of these heavenly muffins, can you share the recipe?
Your photo of the cookies is not showing up for me but judging from the ingredients they sound like they would be pretty awesome!
They look gorgeous – isn’t brown butter so yum?
they look yummy. morequicheplease did a whole brown butter feature. You pix are great and the recipe looks amazing.
I’ve never heard of making cookies with cream cheese before! These look fantastic!
These I’m going to HAVE to try, they look and sound so good!
Hold on. Browned butter, extra chocolate and cream cheese?? Yesss
SO good! But the best thing about them is that you can’t eat too many at once. For real. They’re very filling.
overrated! taste very oily, have no crunch
I’m sorry you had a bad experience with these cookies. Many people (either here in the comments, on twitter or by email) told me that they made these and they came out delicious. I wonder what went wrong for you. Did you substitute anything? Or change any of the directions?
-M
just made these!! so so so good!!!
thank you!!!
I baked it on parchment paper and the bottoms burnt- lesson learned I guess.
The cookie tasted good but not amazing- honestly with all that butter, cream cheese and chocolate I expected to be blown away by the taste of the cookies but I really wasn’t. It was an average flavor.
I’m sorry that you’re experience with these wasn’t as good as the hundreds of people who told me how amazing they were. Not sure what went wrong there…
How many cookies does this make?
How many should this yield?
Can these be made Parve?