Who in the world does not love cookies? Everybody has grown up with a few cookies as their favorite. I have grown up with a famous cookie called Parle G; we call them glucose biscuits too. It is really tasty like shortbread. Also it is one of world largest selling cookies. We call them biscuits which is no relation with any breakfast biscuits that we get over here. Usually amma will give when we back from school and having tea or coffee.
Nowadays I buy Parle G from Indian store and keep it as emergency snack on our car trips. However instead of biscuits my princess call them crackers or cookies as she is busy working in back seat while her papa or mama is driving the car. And her little brother will be crying as he is bored sitting in the car seat.
After I started baking I tried oat meal cookies, peanut butter cookies, and chocolate chips cookies. I love to try various combos and various tastes which are not possible to get it in the store. So I am excited as this month we Baking Partners did a theme for our baking partner challenge that is cookies; we have 3 cookie recipes to try from our incredible partners. I tried all three.
Tina of Pinays cooking Corner suggested Ultimate Chocolate Cream Cheese Cookies, Priya of Priya’s versatile recipes suggested Cornflake cookies and Reeni of ( Cinnamonspiceandeverythingnice)suggested Homemade Oreo Cookies: Fauxreos
Since I had some cream cheese left from making cream cheese Chantilly, I thought I will try ultimate chocolate cream cheese cookies first. They are every chocolate lovers dream and ultimate, cake like soft cookies, will have lingering taste you love to remember even after it is finished. We love it.
Then next come cornflake cookies, for that I need some cornflakes. However in my house no takers for ordinary cornflakes, my princess won’t eat them but like to play with it and invite all the ants around world into the home. So I stopped buying them. But she likes Post Great Grains cereal, which are not really cornflakes. So I used post great grain cranberry almond crunch which is in my hand. It turned out great. I loved most, and got the chance to finish the entire batch.
Next I made homemade Oreo cookies, for that I even bought a packet of Oreo cookies to compare the taste. However, I failed and Oreo won. It turned out to be slightly on the bitter side. May be because I used dutch cocoa. So I have to use slightly heavily on filling resulting in a big no from my husband; but my princess loved the filing. I again got the chance to finish lots of cookies.
I halved all the three recipes and made approximately around 25 cookies each. It is really easy to put together. I try to spaced the time so that we can enjoy the cookies, however, I got bonus in most of the case.
Please take a look at each baking partners contribution as they are different in their look and story behind them is different, even though it is came from same recipe. Some partners are creative in changing them into egg- less versions.
Here I am presenting the Ultimate cream cheese cookies, take a look at it. If possible try it; you are going to be in chocolate dream. I will post the rest of recipes in separate posts. Here go the recipe. 
First grab the ingredients from the pantry.
Melt chocolate in a small bowl by microwave them for 25 seconds and set aside. Stir well to ensure the uniform melting.
Sift, flour, cocoa powder, salt, baking soda and set aside.
In a bowl stand mixer fitted with paddle attachment cream butter and sugar and then add egg and heavy cream and stir once again to combine everything thing. To this fold in melted chocolate and chocolate chips. Wrap with plastic wrap and refrigerate for about 2 hours.
By the end of refrigeration, preheat oven to 350 F and line the cookie sheet with parchment paper.
Scoop about 1 tablespoon of cookie dough and slightly flatten them with hand. Leave 2 inches in between.
Bake the cookies for about 12 minutes until they set in center. Remove from the oven and leave it in cookie sheet for about 5 minutes. Then transfer them to cooling rack until cookies cooled completely.
Keep the cookies in airtight container for about 3 days, if you lucky it will remain 3 days. In our house it finished with two days.
Take a look at it piece.
Ultimate Chocolate Cream Cheese Cookies
Adapted from Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito
Prep Time 10 minutes + 2 hours refrigeration time.
Cook Time 12 minutes
Serves 48
Ingredients:
- 2 ¼ cups (255g) all purpose flour
- ¼ cup (32g) unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2 tsp. (8g) baking soda
- ½ tsp. (3g) salt
- 2 sticks (226g) unsalted butter, softened slightly
- 4 oz (113g) Cream Cheese at room temperature
- 1 cup (201g) granulated sugar
- ½ cup (110g) dark brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 Tbsp. (30ml) heavy cream
- 1 tsp. (5ml) pure vanilla extract
- 3 oz. (85g) bittersweet chocolate, melted and cooled
- 8 oz. (225g) of semi-sweet chocolate chips
Steps:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
In a medium bowl, sift the flour with the cocoa powder, baking soda and salt. In a bowl of a standing mixer fitted with the paddle, combine the butter, cream cheese, granulated sugar and brown sugar and beat until fluffy, about 3 minutes. Scrape down the sides of the bowl. Beat in the eggs, heavy cream and vanilla until blended. At low speed, beat in the dry ingredients. Add the melted chocolate and chocolate chips and beat just until incorporated. Cover the bowl and refrigerate the dough for at least 15 minutes or up to 2 hours.
Scoop heaping tablespoons of cookie dough onto the prepared baking sheets, spacing them two inches apart. Bake for 12 minutes until the cookies are just set; shift the baking sheets for top to bottom and front to back half way through. Let the cookies cool on the baking sheets for 5 minutes, then transfer them to a rack to cool completely.
Note: The cookies can be stored in an airtight container for up to 3 days.
Variations:
- Instead of chocolate chips you can try butterscotch chips .
This is Swathi ( Dr. Ambujom Saraswathy Ph.D) from Zesty South Indian Kitchen who loves to explore cuisines from all over the world. Whenever possible I try to to give an Indian touch to several of the world cuisine, and has weakness for freshly baked bread. All the recipes you see here are created by me and approved after taste-test by my family.
Archana Potdar says
Swathi from the day you had set this challenge I wanted to make the oreos but as it is work I had put it off. My kid remembered these and she made them for the BM that I am participating in. Thanks. It was a proud moment for me to post what she has done. Thans for the awesome recipe.
Kara Lorraine says
I baked these today and they are beautiful! I love this recipe. I love the idea of cream cheese in cookies. So tasty. Thank you for sharing the recipe!
thoushaltcook says
Beautiful cookies and even more stunning pics.
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Pallavi
Meg's Delicious Adventures says
wonderful clicks. The cookies look mouthwatering.
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Shailaja Reddy says
Yummy & lovely cookies.
PT says
liked all your clicks 🙂 nice preparation..
Renata says
Wow Swathi! What an array of delicious and gorgeous cookies! I could have one of each :o)
Rekha says
looks so perfect and delicious..
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Priya R says
Perfectly done cookies from a lovely friend and baker... thanks to you for a wonderful group and a novel idea. Hats off to you Swathi and the team of bakers... besides that parle G is my fav too 🙂 lovely write up swathi girl
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Premalatha Aravindhan says
wow delicious cookies,loved all kinds...thanks for sharing.
Mich PieceofCake says
Cream cheese and chocolate really goes so well together! I love the pictures with the milk, it would go very well with milk!
Vimitha Anand says
All the cookies look so perfectly done dear...
Tina (PinayInTexas) says
Wow! You made all three cookies! You rock, Swathi!
Btw, sorry for linking just now. Busy weekend!
march on... says
I wanted to try the chocolate cream but it was not available in my pantry. It looks delish from your pics. By the way, I'm resending my link as entry #28 coz the first one I sent (entry #26) had errors. Swathi, I hope there is a way to delete entry #26. Sorry about that... Thanks!
♥peachkins♥ says
I'll give the chocolate cream cheese cookies a try next. They look delicious
Hema says
So perfectly done Swathi, all the three of them look superb..
Amrita Vishal says
You have done such a great job with all the three cookies. You have literally nailed the recipes. Loved them !!
Vidhya Viju Govind says
Your choice of cookies were absolutely great Swathi............i made all of them and its been a great experience....thank u:)
Janani says
Swathi how do u always try to take such amazing pictures.All your cookies look sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo good.
Archana Potdar says
Wow you made all 3. Great! cookies. I loved the colour of your oreo ones. Thanks for choosing such delicious cookies.
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Guru Uru says
Cream cheese seems to give these cookies an extra fluffiness 😀
Call me smitten!
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Jemini says
yummy and delicious cookies
Beena.stephy says
Perfect cookies loves it
Kaveri Venkatesh says
The cream cheese cookies look too good Swathi...Very nicely done
DivyaGCP says
Loved all three cookies,Swathi.. Lovely clicks.. Thanks for this month's recipes.
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tadkapasta says
Anything that says 'Ultimate chocolate' has our vote! What a cookie feast!
Swasthi says
All the cookies look great. perfectly baked. nice clicks too.
Reeni says
All the cookies are irresistible Swathi! I am still going to make the other 2 cookies sometime soon. The cream cheese ones look real yummy and I love the cereal you used in the cornflake ones - lots more flavor. My family loves the oreos - we are all happily munching on them tonight for our snack.
Balvinder Ubi says
So you have been baking this past week. Your cookies does look ultimate which my daughter would want me to make it. My personal choice would be the cranberry almond crunch. Have a great weekend!
Ivy says
All cookies are wonderful and shall try the other two soon.
Lizzy Do says
Wow, you've been a busy baker! I think I'd like your great grains cookies the best, but the rest of my family would want chocolate cream cheese ones 🙂
Swathi Iyer says
You know that happened in my house too.
divya says
oh so yummy.....mouth watering
Rev says
Crisp Crisp Crunch Crunch ..... makes me want to bake these now 🙂
Julie says
Great job dear..All three cookies looks delicious,yummy yummy..:)
Priya says
Omg, you have done a beautiful cookies Swathi..they looks mindblowing. Loved all those three cookies you baked.I'll be making oreo cookies soon.Thanks for this wonderful challenge again.
Saraswathi Tharagaram says
Woow, These cookies look amazingly good and my family enjoyed all the three. Delicious!!
Curry Leaf says
They look YUM OOOO.. Finger licking GOOD
Divya Pramil says
Looks too good dear 🙂 Nice clicks!!
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Suja Manoj says
Wow Swathi,great job dear,all three looks stunning,oreo cookies is superb,exactly like the store brought,you rock dear!
Sanoli Ghosh says
OMG! Your three cookies are absolutely divine, Swathi. chocolate cream cheese cookies looks wonderful dear. Crunchy munchy canberry mixed conflakes cookies look awesome dear. And homemade oreo cookies are lipsmacking good. Lovely, what a perfection!
Achu says
Wow awesome dear Lovely ones dear
Reshmi Mahesh says
Wow all the three cookies look perfect and delicious....Great job dear..