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.
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
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.
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.
Secondly, we beat the brown sugar and an egg into the butter and cream cheese mixture.
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.
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.
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.
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 Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Prep Time: 1 hour 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 12 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour 32 minutes
- Yield: about 24 cookies 1x
- Category: cookies, dessert
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
- 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
- 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.
- In a medium bowl whisk together flour, milk powder, baking soda, baking powder, and salt until well combined.
- Add in the dry ingredients and mix until combined. Fold in the chopped Oreos and milk chocolate chips.
- Wrap the dough in plastic wrap (or cover the bowl in plastic wrap) and refrigerate for at least 1 hours, or overnight.
- Place a rack in the center and upper third of the oven and preheat oven to 350F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- 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.
- 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,
Photos with the wonderful Jon Melendez.
Maia
Hi Joy! I apologize if the question is redundant but I’m really new to baking, these cookies are soooooo good, I was wondering if I could freeze the dough to bake at a later date?
joythebaker
Yes! You can freeze the dough to bake at a later date.
Nicole
Mine came out pale in color and didn’t flatten out at much. Still tasted delish! But am I missing a step?
joythebaker
Possibly more time in the oven or place them in a higher rack in the oven. Hope that helps!
Claudia's Cookbook
I made these for a weekend at the cabin with some friends. They were a massive hit. So delicious. The cookies didn’t spread/flatten out as much as your photos, but that didn’t matter. They still turned out great!
Tina Llopis
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you! I have some – not all of these ingredients, but, they are now on my shopping list for tomorrow! I have made many different types of chocolate chip cookies, but these look so amazing! As soon as I bake them, I’ll write back! I. CAN’T. WAIT!
Eamonn Sterley
So I take it this makes 12? Hiding the dough in the refrigerator – even making the dough is problematic as there is a genuine cookie monster in the home that insists on eating dough. “No words can soothe [her], no prayer remove [her], and I must hear forevermore”.
Gwen Watson
Milk chocolate and cookies and cream are wonderful complements to each other. These cookies are a nice way to combine these ingredients. I also find that substituting dark chocolate instead of milk chocolate intensifies the chocolate flavors nicely.
Clarice
These cookies are amazing! I’ve already made them twice and they keep getting better each time; however, my cookies don’t flatten and stay as a ball after they are scooped and baked in the oven. I’ve had to manually squash them down to achieve a flatter cookie. Do you have any tips to prevent this from happening?
Zena
I can only find nonfat instant milk powder… is this ok?
Kimber-Leigh
i’ve put oreo cookies in a sugar cookie recipe and YUM. will have to try these out too!
Caroline Leigh
Hi Joy! big fan here. I make lots of your recipes but hardly ever comment. I made these tonight and they were SO good….and you’re right about the dough! my curious mind wonders, and you are great at explaining the why’s and how’s of baking: why the milk powder? does it give the cookies a creamy taste? thanks!
Kelly
I had some Red Velvet Oreo’s lingering in my pantry (because I’m a sucker for a new flavor) and I used this recipe with white chocolate chips – TOTAL HIT!! I brought them to work and I’ve never had a baked good disappear so fast! Thanks!!
cookiesfromhome
Glorious recipe.Love all chocolate recipes.Perfect food kids.Thanks for this.
Lots of love
Regards
cookiesfromhome
Nancy
I ate the dough. I went down that road. That long lonely road to cookie dough heaven!
joythebaker
Hahahahah!
dw
I made these for a church meeting on Sunday, and they were a HIT. So delicious, thanks for sharing the recipe!! :)
Melissa
Just had cream cheese-butter base cookies for the first time…and they were good, but now I am deeply regretting that I didn’t spot this recipe first. Going to buy some Oreos immediately!