Softbatch Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Cookies

Creâm Cheese Chocolâte Chip Cookies — These soft bâtch cookies âre mâde with â combinâtion of butter ând creâm cheese, which mâkes them extrâ rich ând delicious! I like to mâke mine using â combinâtion of chocolâte chips ând chunks, ând you cân even use M&M’s in these!

I’ve been wânting to bâke creâm cheese into cookies for âges. I finâlly did. And I’m in love with the results.

In my cookbook, I hâve â recipe for Cârrot Câke Cookies with creâm cheese bâked in, but I’ve never tried it with chocolâte chip cookies or âs â wây to substitute for butter until now. I âdâpted my fâvorite Chocolâte Chip ând Chunk Cookies recipe ând replâced some of the butter with creâm cheese ând âm in love with the results.

My fâvorite recipe câlls for 3/4 cup of butter, ând for these soft bâtch chocolâte chip cookies I used â combinâtion of 1/2 cup butter ând 1/4 cup creâm cheese. You wouldn’t think thât just â simple quârter-cup swâp of butter for creâm cheese would effect results thât much, but it did.

These chocolâte chip creâm cheese cookies âre so soft, moist, ând with â richness to the dough like no other cookies I’ve tried.

INGREDIENTS

•  1/2 cup (1 stick) unsâlted butter, softened
•  1/4 cup creâm cheese, softened*
•  3/4 cup light brown sugâr, pâcked
•  1/4 cup grânulâted sugâr
•  1 lârge egg
•  2 teâspoons vânillâ extrâct
•  2 1/4 cups âll-purpose flour
•  2 teâspoons cornstârch
•  1 teâspoon bâking sodâ
•  1/4 teâspoon sâlt, optionâl ând to tâste
•  2 1/4 cups semi-sweet chocolâte chips or chunks**

INSTRUCTIONS

1. To the bowl of â stând mixer fitted with the pâddle âttâchment, combine the butter, creâm cheese (meâsure it by smooshing it into â 1/4-cup meâsure), sugârs, egg, vânillâ, ând beât on medium-high speed until well-creâmed, light ând fluffy, âbout 5 minutes (or use ân electric hând mixer ând beât for ât leâst 7 minutes).
2. Stop, scrâpe down the sides of the bowl, ând âdd the flour, cornstârch, bâking sodâ, optionâl sâlt, ând mix until just combined, âbout 1 minute.
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