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Cookies and Cream Chocolate Chip Cookies

July 6, 2015 by Joy the Baker 126 Comments

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stack of cookies and cream cookies on a rack with glass of milk

Recipe updated June 29th, 2021.  This Cookies and Cream Cookie is one of the best chocolate chip cookies and one of the mosts popular recipes on Joy the Baker and has been updated in images and recipes!  Please leave reviews and comment below as you make and enjoy these fine cookies! xo Joy

I have this tooth whistle.  One of my teeth, maybe it’s two… in combination with my tongue and the letter ‘s’… it whistles.

That’s a weird way to start a cookie recipe.  With a tooth whistle.

It’s an elusive whistle.  It arrives unexpectedly with the sound of an ‘s’, just every few months.  One short whistle and it’s gone again only to surprise with its presence months later.  Something about the stars aligning just so.

I’m always delighted by its presence.  Like I’m part bird and party fairy for just half a second.  I think so hard about what I’m trying to say that when part of it comes out as a whistle… well that’s just a bonus.

I know it’s just a tooth whistle.  But I’ve come to cherish it.

I mention my tooth whistle today for two reasons, because… I was thinking about it, and that’s how this whole blog things works.  You have to endure banal stories about my teeth in order to get the very best cookie recipes.  But also… a truly stellar, gooey, delicious, addictive, PERFECT cookie recipe is as elusive and delightful as a tooth whistle.  The stars have aligned and our cookie is here.

Chocolate Chip Cookie ingredients measured and separated in bowls

Here’s What You’ll Need To Make Cookies and Cream Cookies:

•  unsalted butter and cream cheese, both softened to room temperature

•  brown sugar

•  powdered milk (which will lend a creaminess and chewy texture to the cookies)

•  all-purpose flour or an all-purpose gluten-free flour blend

•  baking soda, baking powder, and salt

•  a large egg

•  vanilla extract

•  milk chocolate chips (though white chocolate chips are fun, too!) and Oreo cookies coarsely chopped

Dry ingredients for cookie batter whisked together in a medium bowl.

If you’ve ever wondered:

How To Make The Best Chocolate Chip Cookie

well there are two possible answers: browned butter and/or cream cheese.

Browned butter adds a nutty richness to the cookies as evidenced by Dad’s Perfect Browned Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie.

For today’s incredible chocolate chip cookie we’re using:CREAM CHEESE to make a tender, moist, and divinely rich cookie.  Perfectly chewy around through the center and crisp around the edges.

Softened butter and cream cheese whipped together in a bowl.

Start these chocolate chip cookies by first whipping the softened butter and cream cheese together in a medium bowl. 

The two fats have slightly different consistencies so to ensure the two play nice together, ensure that they’re both very soft. This might even mean popping the cream cheese in the microwave for a few seconds to get any chill off.

Brown sugar and an egg being added to creamed butter for cookies.

Secondly, we beat the brown sugar and an egg into the butter and cream cheese mixture. 

Vanilla extract beaten into cookie batter in a bowl.

Lastly, before we add the dry ingredients we’ll beat in a dash of vanilla extract.  

You’ll notice that the batter feels almost stretchy! That’s the cream cheese doing us a great favor and the start of perfectly chewy cookies.

Dry ingredients added to a medium bowl of cookies and cream cookie batter.
Chocolate chips and crumbled oreos poured into a batter to make the best chocolate chip cookie recipe


Next, in a small bowl whisk together the dry ingredients.  Whisk the flour, milk powder, leavening, and salt in a separate bowl (even though it dirties another bowl ugh I know!) to ensure that all the ingredients are evenly combined preventing over-beating the cookie dough.

Add the dry ingredients all at once to the butter and sugar mixture and beat until just combined. 

Lastly, stir in the Oreo pieces and chocolate chips.  

The best cookies and cream cookie batter in a medium bowl to chill.

You may find that powdered milk is a bit grainy. Not to worry, it will absorb the liquid in the batter and ease before baking.

Refrigerate the dough for at least an hour before baking to re-chill the fats and allow the flour and milk powder to settle and absorb the liquids.  

Best Chocolate Chip Cookie dough balls on a baking sheet with parchment paper
Baked Cookies and Cream Chocolate Chip Cookies on a cooling rack


Portion the dough balls into generous tablespoon size portions and place a few inches apart on a parchment lined baking sheet.

Bake at 35p until just golden around the edges. I like these chocolate chip cookies a tad under baked and just a touch gooey in the center.

Cool what you don’t eat straight from the oven on a baking rack!

Cookies and Cream Cookies on a cooling rack.

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Stack of the best chocolate chip cookies on a cooking rack with glass of milk

Cookies and Cream Cookies Chocolate Chip Cookies

★★★★★ 5 from 1 reviews
  • Author: Joy the Baker
  • Prep Time: 1 hour 20 minutes
  • Cook Time: 12 minutes
  • Total Time: 1 hour 32 minutes
  • Yield: about 24 cookies 1x
  • Category: cookies, dessert
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Description

The best chocolate chip cookie recipe made with milk chocolate chips and big chunks of Oreo cookies. A chewy on the inside and crisp around the edges perfect cookie inception. 


Ingredients

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  • 4 oz. (half a block) cream cheese, well softened
  • 1/2 cup (1 stick, 113 grams) unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
  • 1 cup (200 grams) light brown sugar, packed
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • 1 1/2 cups (190 grams) all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 cup (62 grams) dry milk powder
  • 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 2 cups coarsely chopped Oreo cookies (about 18–20 cookies)
  • 1 cup (170 grams) milk chocolate chips

Instructions

  1. In the bowl of stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat together the cream cheese and butter until light and creamy, about a minute. Make sure that both the cream cheese and butter are very well softened to avoid any lumps. Add the brown sugar and egg and beat on medium-low speed for 3 minutes until pale and fluffy. Beat in vanilla.
  2. In a medium bowl whisk together flour, milk powder, baking soda, baking powder, and salt until well combined.
  3. Add in the dry ingredients and mix until combined. Fold in the chopped Oreos and milk chocolate chips.
  4. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap (or cover the bowl in plastic wrap) and refrigerate for at least 1 hours, or overnight.
  5. Place a rack in the center and upper third of the oven and preheat oven to 350F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
  6. Spoon out dough balls – a heaping tablespoonful of dough for each cookie. Place on the prepared baking sheets, providing at least 1 1/2 inches between each cookies. Bake the cookies for 11-12 minutes, until edges begin to brown but the middle is still a bit gooey! Cool before serving to allow them to hold their shape.
  7. Store cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for as long as your will power will allow. 

Notes

  • This recipe can also be made GF with an all-purpose gluten-free flour blend from Bob’s Red Mill or King Arthur Flour. 

Nutrition

  • Serving Size: 24

Keywords: chocolate chip cookies, cookies and cream, cookies, chocolate, joy the baker, easy baking, dessert,

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  1. Sarah

    October 7, 2021 at 12:23 pm

    Just wanted to come back and say I LOVE THESE COOKIES AND SO DOES EVERYBODY WHO BAKES THEM !!!

    I usually double the recipe because then I use a whole block of cream cheese, a bag of chocolate chips, and a family size pack of oreos and it’s perfect, though a good workout for my standard mixer.

    MAKE THESE AND YOU WONT REGRET IT!! And yes, just buy the milk powder. No subs.

    ★★★★★

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    • Sarah

      October 7, 2021 at 12:24 pm

      I meant everybody who eats them… I got too excited.

      Reply
  2. Catherine

    April 15, 2019 at 1:47 pm

    I’ve now made these several times and they are my favorite cookie to bake AND eat! The first time I made them they looked exactly as they do in the picture. Every time after that they have refused to spread out while baking. I have no idea what changed, but I’m hoping to figure it out next time! In any case, these cookies are so delicious that it truly does not matter how much they spread. I’m obsessed and so is everyone else I share them with. :)

    Reply
  3. Matt

    January 8, 2019 at 9:55 pm

    Needed to leave a comment to let you know these are my favorite cookies ever and I keep making them and sharing the recipe with everyone I know. Thanks!!

    Reply
  4. Liz

    December 23, 2018 at 9:56 am

    Why did the recipe disappear?.

    Reply
  5. Erin

    March 22, 2018 at 8:57 pm

    Amazing! Just had one of these fresh from the oven and they are so delicious and happy.

    Reply
  6. Tania Theriault

    December 18, 2017 at 8:41 am

    Looks delish!!! How many cookies does this recipe make??

    Reply
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