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Soft 30 minute gingerbread cheesecake cookies with cream cheese filling stacked showing cross section

Gingerbread Cheesecake Cookies

Irresistible gingerbread cheesecake cookies featuring soft spiced gingerbread cookie dough wrapped around tangy sweetened cream cheese filling creating stuffed cookies with hidden surprise inside. These impressive holiday treats require just 30 minutes active time combining two favorite desserts into one spectacular cookie perfect for Christmas cookie exchanges festive gatherings and gift giving creating bakery quality results at home.
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 12 minutes
Total Time 32 minutes
Servings: 24
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Calories: 125
Ingredients Equipment Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 0.5 cup unsalted butter Softened
  • 0.75 cup brown sugar Packed
  • 1 egg Large
  • 0.25 cup molasses
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2.25 cups all purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 tablespoon ground ginger
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 0.25 teaspoon ground cloves
  • 0.25 teaspoon salt
  • 8 oz cream cheese Softened
  • 0.25 cup powdered sugar
  • 0.5 teaspoon vanilla extract

Equipment

  • 1 Electric mixer For beating
  • 2 Large mixing bowls For wet and dry
  • 1 Cookie scoop For portioning
  • 2 Baking sheets
  • 1 Parchment paper Prevents sticking
  • 1 Wire cooling rack

Method
 

  1. Beat cream cheese with powdered sugar vanilla until smooth
  2. Scoop teaspoon portions onto sheet freeze 1 hour until solid
  3. Beat butter brown sugar until fluffy add egg molasses vanilla
  4. Whisk flour baking soda ginger cinnamon cloves salt
  5. Add dry to wet beat just until combined
  6. Preheat oven to 350°F line baking sheets
  7. Scoop dough flatten place frozen filling in center wrap seal roll smooth
  8. Place on sheets bake 10 to 12 minutes until puffy
  9. Cool on sheet 5 minutes transfer to rack cool completely

Notes

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.