# Gingerbread Cheesecake Cookies

Perfectly spiced cookies with crispy edges, soft center, and a creamy cheesecake filling, coated in cinnamon sugar bliss.

- Category: Dessert
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 0.25 cup molasses
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 0.5 cup granulated sugar
- 0.5 cup dark brown sugar
- 2 egg yolks
- 0.75 cup unsalted butter; softened
- 2.33 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tsp ground ginger
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 0.5 tsp nutmeg
- 0.5 tsp salt
- 0.5 tsp baking soda
- 8 oz cream cheese; softened
- 0.25 cup granulated sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract

## Instructions

1. Add cream cheese to a bowl.
2. Add granulated sugar to the cream cheese.
3. Add vanilla extract to the cream cheese mixture.
4. Mix the cream cheese filling until smooth.
5. Scoop portions of the cream cheese filling onto a parchment-lined baking sheet.
6. Add molasses to a bowl.
7. Add granulated sugar to the bowl.
8. Add dark brown sugar to the bowl.
9. Add egg yolks to the bowl.
10. Add softened unsalted butter to the bowl.
11. Mix the wet ingredients until well combined.
12. Add all-purpose flour to a separate bowl.
13. Add ground ginger to the flour.
14. Add cinnamon to the flour.
15. Add nutmeg to the flour.
16. Add salt to the flour.
17. Add baking soda to the flour.
18. Whisk the dry ingredients together.
19. Pour the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients bowl.
20. Mix the dough until combined.
21. Scoop a portion of gingerbread dough.
22. Flatten the gingerbread dough.
23. Place a scoop of cheesecake filling on the flattened dough.
24. Enclose the cheesecake filling with the gingerbread dough to form a ball.
25. Roll the cookie dough ball in cinnamon sugar.
26. Place the coated cookie dough balls on a parchment-lined baking sheet.
27. Bake the cookies until golden brown.

## Equipment

- bowl
- mixer
- baking sheet
- parchment paper
- cookie scoop
- whisk

## Source

- Original video: https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSP4EoCWh/
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/42d5cafa-6d0b-4e69-8432-5df69dc3ecd3
- Extracted: 2025-12-19

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