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.
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.
Aruna Advaney
These are adorable (bookmarked)!
Rosie @ Blueberry Kitchen
Yum, these sound so good, they look so cute too!
Jenna
Chocolate and orange remind me of the chocolate covered oranges that you can get at holidays. My brothers and I used to love those growing up. Putting them together with cheesecake in a bite sized form seems delicious and dangerous at the same time. Great SRC pick!
Margaret
EH!! Yes. Please!! These look sooooooo good.
Jersey Girl Cooks
What cute little treats!
My Inner Chick
–I shall be baking these over the weekend.
DEEEEEEEEEEELISH! Xx thank you, B. Xx
Jamie
These look so good – flavorful and chewy! I think I would love these more than just cookies; baking cups gives more goodness in every mouthful. Thanks for passing this recipe on!
Katrina
I agree with the others, your site does look great!
And as soon as I saw you made cookie cups, I knew you had Lisa’s blog. 😉
I made cookie cups when I had her blog, too, last year. Love orange and chocolate, they
sound perfect for spring/Easter, too.
Maureen | Orgasmic Chef
Oh Barbara, I’m in love with these cookie cups! What a perfect day for my return to the living. 🙂
teresa
i am going to have to try these! they’re so cute and look amazing. the orange zest really has me intrigued!
jehanne@thecookingdoctor
those cookie cups look fab, Barbara! Especially love the ziggy zaggy chocolates on top;-)
Cindy Harris
These do look delicious. Love orange anything.
Blond Duck
Cheesecake and cookies? Yum!
Chaya
These cookies are simply the best. They are attractive and clever with the center filling and I know, they are delicious.
Elizabeth@ Food Ramblings
wow- these look SOOO good! yay for src 🙂