June 20, 2022
Raspberry Cheesecake Cookies!
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Delicious white chocolate and raspberry cheesecake cookies with soft delicious cookies and cheesecake sandwiched together!
So… yeah this recipe happened. JUST LOOK AT THEM!! Raspberry cheesecake cookies are basically my new obsession and I am utterly in love and want to eat them basically every day! I know that sounds extreme, but try them for yourself and you will find out exactly what I mean.
I’ve posted many a cookie recipe in my time so a combination of my banoffee sandwich cookies, my raspberry white chocolate cookies and my salted caramel cheesecake cookies basically created this beauty of a combination, and you are welcome. ENJOY THEM.
Cookie dough
As with all my cookies, I have a basic dough that I utterly adore. I will make it over and over, and make ever so slight changes depending on the theme, flavour and idea – but at the end of the day, most cookies have a similar recipe behind them.
For these, I tried to simplify the cookie dough ever so slightly to make it easier for people to bake, but to be honest they are as easy and as simple as they can really get!
- Butter – There is some idea when baking cookies that you need to use cold butter to get best results, but I don’t agree. Room temp unsalted butter, baking spread etc… all fine! I use baking spread most of the time in my cookie bakes purely for ease.
- Sugar – To make the cookies look slightly more attractive (a nice golden colour!) I used light brown soft sugar only in these. You can use white granulated sugar if you wish, or half and half, but the more white sugar, the paler in colour the cookies get.
- Egg – Medium as always….
- Vanilla – Vanilla extract is 100% optional, but I love adding it to every bake I possibly can. I love it!
- Flour – You don’t want these cookies to rise too much, so using plain flour is best as it creates a lovely texture to the cookies.
- Bicarb – These cookies aren’t designed to rise too much or be too big as they are meant to be slightly smaller so that you can get away with the sandwiching.
- Salt – I always add salt to my cookies – even if it’s a tiny amount because it just takes the edge off the sweetness. It is optional, but make sure to use sea salt and not table salt – they have different strengths. If you need to use table salt, only use a pinch!
Flavours
So obviously for this the main idea is raspberry – and that’s basically because I love anything raspberry flavoured right now. If you have followed my raspberry cookie recipe before you know its a dreamy combination with cookies.
For these cookies I decided to only use freeze dried raspberries to make sure the cookie dough wasn’t too wet – you don’t need much and it really brings through the flavour of the raspberries!
Because I was using raspberries I did decide to use white chocolate with the cookies, but you can use whatever flavour chocolate chip you fancy. I always use these chocolate chips as they’re easy to bulk buy and really yummy.
These cookies would be delicious with milk chocolate and dark chocolate however, but just make sure to stick to the same amount or less of chocolate chips – you may struggle to bake the cookies well if you add too many.
Cheesecake
For the cheesecake part of these cookies I decided to make a sandwich cookie rather than stuffing the cookies like I did with my salted caramel cheesecake cookies to do something a little different.
To make the cheesecake mixture more stable I used my cream cheese frosting recipe as it works so wonderfully and is stable.
- Butter – For this frosting you MUST use block butter. Margarine/spreads do not work with cream cheese frosting as they are too soft.
- Sugar – as always, icing sugar guys.
- Cream Cheese – I often use Philadelphia to make my cream cheese frosting, you just need to make sure whatever soft cheese you use is full-fat.
- Vanilla – I like to add for flavour as per usual, but this is optional.
I know you may think, but this isn’t cheesecake?! Well it is in my eyes – and it’s much more stable and likely to work compared to adding in pure cheesecake mixture. However, if you want to, go for it! It’ll be delicious either way I am sure.
Tips & Tricks
These are not designed to be NYC style cookies before you ask. By the time you sandwich two cookies together you get the same amount of cookie, so they do not need to be any bigger!
I always use a 5cm cookie scoop for cookies – as not all cookies need to be weighed. Honestly, for so many of my recipes I use a scoop as its far easier and less faffy compared to weighing them, and I am absolutely here for that.
These beauties can be flavoured differently if you wish, such as with the chocolate chips like I mentioned above. If you want chocolate based cookie dough, you can take out 50g of plain flour, and add in 35g of cocoa powder.
Raspberry Cheesecake Cookies!
Ingredients
Cookies
- 125 g unsalted butter
- 175 g light brown soft sugar
- 1 medium egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 300 g plain flour
- 1 tbsp cornflour
- 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 1/2 tsp sea salt chunks
- 250 g white chocolate
- 15 g freeze dried raspberries
Cheesecake
- 100 g unsalted butter (room temp)
- 100 g icing sugar
- 200 g full-fat cream cheese
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
Cookies
- Preheat your oven to 200ºc/180ºfan, and line two-three trays with parchment paper.
- Add the unsalted butter and light brown soft sugar to a bowl and beat until creamy.
- Add in the egg and vanilla extract and beat again.
- Add in the plain flour, bicarbonate of soda, cornflour and sea salt and beat until a cookie dough is formed.
- Add in the white chocolate and freeze dried raspberries and beat until they are distributed well!
- Scoop the cookies using a 5cm scoop onto lined trays.
- Bake in the oven for 11-13 minutes, or until golden.
- Remove the trays from the oven and leave the cookies to cool fully on the trays.
Cream Cheese Frosting
- Beat the butter on it's own for a few minutes to loosen it.
- Add in the icing sugar, and beat again - I beat this for about 5 minutes, to make it really smooth.
- Make sure your cream cheese doesn't have any excess water - I find it best to add it to a bowl first just to make sure.
- Add in the cream cheese, and vanilla and beat until thick and smooth.
Assembly
- Pipe/spread the cream cheese frosting onto half of the cookies, and then sandwich with another cookie!
Notes
- You can freeze the raw cookie dough easily, and bake from frozen if you don't want to bake the entire batch - add 1-2 minutes to the baking time.
- See notes on the post about how to adapt the flavours of the cookies!
- Once baked, these will last for 3-4+ days, in the fridge.
ENJOY!
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I baked these straight out of the mixer (no chilling), slightly smaller than the recipes (I used a 3cm scoop). All ingredients were exactly the same as the recipe, but they didn’t spread 🙁 The outside raspberries and chocolate chips also burned up. I tried turning my oven down to 160′ fan, but same deal. Do you have any advice what I might be doing wrong? Thank you!
This sounds like you likely rolled the cookies too tight, and had too high a temp for the size of the cookie as you changed it. Ovens can be hotter than you think as they really vary x
These are delicious. I added a small blob of seedless raspberry jam on top of the cheesecake filling before sandwiching the cookies together. They were a huge hit with my friends!
Thank you for all your amazing recipes.
Can I sandwich them the night before and refrigrate or will the cookie go soggy? Thanks 👍
They’ll be fine!
Hi., 2 questions please. Than’ you.
1. Where do you buy freeze dried rasps. Or strawberry’s ?
2. In Canada, our cornflour is yellow. Does this recipe call for that or what we call corn starch?
So” looking forward to making these.
Hiya! I order them from amazon! And yes – this should be fine! Hope this helps x
Hi Jane, Will the recipe still work simply by multiplying by 2,3 or even 4 for large batches?
Thank you for replying how much cocoa powder would you use in the filling?
How can I change cheesecake filling to chocolate flavour?
Thank you in advance
Hiya! You can try adding cocoa powder to the mix! Hope this helps, sounds yummy! x
Hi, fab recipe, do you chop the white chocolate?
Thank you so much! You can use chopped or chocolate chips! Hope this helps! x
Hi Jane,
The recipes says it’s for 8 cookies, is this 8 double cookies or 8 cookies for 4 dubble cookies?
Hiya! It is for 16 cookies in total, soo making 8 ‘double’ cookies! Hope this helps! x
Where do I get a 5CM scoop from?
Thanks
Hiya! It is linked on my salted caramel cheesecake cookies! Hope this helps! x
Has anyone make the glut free?
I would love to make these but don’t have a cookie scoop. Do you know roughly how much each ball of dough should weigh?
Hiya! If you ever have this issue, then add up the weight of ingredients and divide by 16! Though I would 100% recommend investing in a scoop – you can find the one I use linked on ‘my favourite baking equipment’ post! Hope this helps! x
Can I use freezr dried strawberries instead?
Yes absolutely, enjoy! x
Hi Jane would this recipe work with fresh raspberries instead of freeze dried in the cookie dough?
No, sadly they are too wet for this! Hope this helps! x
Hi. When you say Seasalter chunks. Is that the same as coarse Seasalt.
Yes absolutely! Enjoy! x
Can I freeze the whole finished product please.
Yes absolutely, for up to 3 months! Enjoy! x