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A sweet orange cream cheese cookie dough baked in a mini muffin tin, filled with cream cheese filling and drizzled with semi-sweet chocolate.
Sweet as Sugar Cookies is my Secret Recipe Club blog this month. Last month Lisa had Barbara Bakes for her Secret Recipe Club blog. She baked my Pumpkin Fantail Cinnamon Rolls, so I was excited to pick a recipe from her sweet site this month.
We both share a love of cookie cups. Lisa might even love them a bit more than I do. She has 19 cookie cup recipes on Sweet as Sugar Cookies. Lisa posted her Orange Cheesecake Cookie Cups about a year ago, and I commented then how amazingly delicious they looked.
I love the combination of orange and chocolate and adding in cream cheese adds an extra layer of deliciousness. When the cream cheese frosting sets up in the fridge, it does taste more like cheesecake than cream cheese frosting.
Lisa adapted the recipe from Evil Shenanigans’ Orange Cheesecake Cookies. Kelly adapted the recipe from the Chewy Cheesecake Cookies on Christmas Cookies.com, so this cookie has a long history.
Some of my cookies got a little too brown on the bottom, so be sure and take them out of the oven as soon as you see they’re browning around the edges.
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Orange Cheesecake Cookie Cups
Ingredients
Cookies
- 1 tablespoon orange zest
- 1 cup sugar
- ½ cup 1 stick unsalted butter, softened
- 3 ounces cream cheese
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
Cream Cheese Filling
- 3 ounces cream cheese softened
- 1 ½ Tbsp. butter at room temperature
- 6 Tbsp. powdered sugar
- melted semisweet chocolate for drizzling
Instructions
- Heat oven to 375º. Grease or spray a mini muffin tin with cooking spray.
- Combine orange zest and sugar in a small bowl. Cream the butter and cream cheese until well combined.
- Add the orange sugar, salt, and vanilla, and blend until ingredients are well combined, but not fluffy. Add the flour and mix just until incorporated.
- Fill each muffin cup with 1 tablespoon of cookie dough. Bake 10 to 12 minutes until edges are browned, the centers will not be completely set. Remove the cookies from the oven and using the end of a thick-handled wooden spoon make a small, deep well in the center of each cookie. Remove to a wire rack to cool.
- Cream Cheese Frosting
- Cream the butter and cream cheese together. Add the powdered sugar and beat until light and fluffy.
- Pipe the frosting into the cookie cups (I used a ziploc bag with the tip cut off) or spoon it in. Drizzle with the melted chocolate. Put into the fridge until ready to serve.
Teresa
Hey, Barbara, I was trying to pin several of your recipes but your Pinterest button is not working. Thought you would want to know.
Barbara Schieving
Teresa – thanks for the heads up. The Pinterest button should be working now. Thanks for pinning!
Lesa @ Edesia's Notebook
These look amazing! I love the idea of the orange and the chocolate together. Simply delicious!
sarah k @ the pajama chef
cookie cups are great! i love this flavor combo…they are so pretty 🙂
PolaM
Love orange and chocolate! great pick!
Camilla @ Culinary Adventures
Those look AMAZING as does your new site layout. I love orange and chocolate, too. I might just have to give these a try soon. Nice pick for the SRC.
Valérie (Franche-Comté)
Barbara
Une délicieuse idée
Je te souhaite un agréable journée
Valérie.
Angie@Angie's Recipes
They look divine! And I love your cookie pan!!
Catherine Holt
These cookies look absolutely amazing! Cheesecake – tick, chocolate – tick, orange – tick…what is not to like?!
Kitchen Belleicious
barbara I love the new look to your site. It is modern and clean and refreshing just like these cookie cups actually. I love the orange hint throughout the cheesecake
Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella
These look like the best of both worlds mum! I’ve never tried one but I have a feeling that I’d love them 😉 P.S. Love the new site design! xxx
carrian
These look amazing, but more importantly, your site does!
Claire @ Claire K Creations
My goodness, cheesecake in a cookie cup coated with chocolate. Yes please!
Lisa~~
Bite sized deliciousness! I love using cream cheese in cookie dough and then adding more…well yum! Looks perfect.
Lisa~~
Rocky Mountain Woman
Love the site redo!
The recipe looks wonderful also. Unusual flavor combo!
cooking rookie
Such cute pretty cheese cake cups! I saw them in the SRC links and knew that they were yours 🙂 – one more brilliant recipe, Barbara! Have a sweet week 🙂
Delishhh
First – the NEW site looks AWESOME. I was in here this morning and wow – things have changed. Since you were my SRC person this month i spent a lot of time here :). But the new look is so clean and refreshed – very nice!
As i said i was your SRC person this week and i just had a blast on your site. So many choices and so many things to make. I decided on something easy for this month but have several things saved to make at a later time.
The cookies look awesome.
melissa@IWasBornToCook
Bite size deliciousness!
Averie @ Averie Cooks
Your new site looks awesome, Barbara! And so do the cookies!
Barbara Schieving
Thanks Averie! I still have lots of tweaking to do and have to go back and format all the recipes for the Ziplist pllugin which may take me forever, but it should be a lot more user friendly and easier to navigate.
Rosa
Those are wonderful!
Cheers,
Rosa
sara
These cookies look incredible! Wow – so delicious. Definitely need to give them a try! 🙂