Love strawberry cheesecake? This is a way to share the taste of cheesecake with all of your friends without a plate or fork. And the best part is that it is so easy. I made these with my friend for a potluck and they were a huge hit. People kept coming up to us and telling us how much they tasted like the real thing.
Ingredients:
-½ cup cream cheese, you can use the regular or the whipped cream cheese. The whipped gives the cookies a more “cake- like texture” and the regular gives it more of a “pound cake texture. I used the whipped cream cheese.
- ½ cup of softened butter and room temperature, do not melt it in the microwave it will make the cookies fall.
- 1 cup flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 strawberry preserves
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
Beat the 1/2 cup butter and 1/2 cream cheese together until combined. Begin to add the sugar in increments until the mixture is fluffy. Then beat in a whole egg.
In another bowl, whisk together the 1 cup flour, 1/4 teaspoon baking powder, and 1/8 teaspoon salt until combined. Then add it to the cream cheese mixture and stir well.
Drop the mixture by tablespoons onto a cookie sheet (no need to grease it, the cookies will come right off). Stir the preserves well and swirl on top of the cookies. Bake for 12-15 minutes until the tops are golden. The cookies will be sticky, gooey, and oh so yummy!
You can use this same recipe to make other fruit cheesecake cookies. This recipe works well with raspberry and blackberry preserves. If you want an extra challenge, you can try making the preserves yourself! Follow this simple recipe:
Take 2lbs of strawberries cut into fourths and crush them until you have 4 cups of mashed strawberries. Place mashed strawberries into a saucepan with 4 cups sugar and 1/4 cup lemon juice and stir over low heat until sugar is dissolved. Then increase to high heat and bring mixture to a boil until it reaches 220 degrees. Then refrigerate. Be sure to put in sterile jars if saving preserves for later.
Happy eating!
