These chocolate cream cheese cookies are soft, delicious, and the star of the show when you serve them to your guests. Just know that they will stop conversations in their tracks by making people say things like, “Mmmmm!” You have been warned.
People obsess over my pudding and cream cheese cookies. Now I have two of them on Dishes Delish: this one and the pistachio cookies recipe, which is by far my #1 recipe on the blog. It officially outranks my Cadillac margarita, which has moved to the #2 spot.
Why is it that I feel sad for the Cadillac marg? Weird.
If you like soft, flavorful cookies, you will enjoy these chocolate cream cheese cookies. These are hubby’s favorite.
Helpful tips
- Make sure to take out the butter at least an hour before you start on the cookies.
- To make the butter soften quicker, cut it into pads.
- I use the double chocolate pudding mix, but you can use the regular chocolate pudding mix.
- Use a medium cookie scoop. It makes for airy-soft cookies.
- The baked cookies should be slightly browned on the edges and a little soft to the touch.
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How to make chocolate cream cheese cookies
Pre-step
Take out the butter at least one hour before starting.
Step one
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees, get cookie sheets and cookie scoop.
Step two
Gather the wet ingredients – butter, cream cheese, egg and vanilla. (A)
Step three
Gather the dry ingredients: chocolate fudge pudding mix, flour, sugar, baking soda and salt. (B)
Step four
Add butter, cream cheese and sugar to the stand mixer.
Step five
Turn the mixer on medium and mix until creamy. (D)
Step six
Add egg and vanilla. (E)
Step seven
Turn mixer on medium and mix until combined. (F)
Step eight
Add the pudding mix, flour, salt and baking soda. (G)
Step nine
Stir in chocolate chips with a spatula. (H)
Step ten
Scoop the cookie dough and plop it on your cookie sheets.
Continue placing the dough balls on the sheets. Don’t they look like chocolate mousse balls?
Step eleven
Place in oven and bake for 15 minutes. When the cookies are done, the edges will be slightly browned and they will be a little soft to the touch.
Remove cookies from the sheet and place on a wire rack.
Gather your friends and pile the cookies on a plate.
Time to take a bite.
Mmmm. Soft and delicious!
I hope you enjoyed this chocolate cream cheese cookies recipe! They are so scrumptious.
And as always, may all your dishes be delish.
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Chocolate Cream Cheese Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter (softened - take butter out at least an hour before starting)
- 8 ounces cream cheese
- .75 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2.25 cups white flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- .50 teaspoon salt
- 3.4 ounces chocolate fudge pudding mix (or regular chocolate)
- .50 chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 F
- Add softened butter, cream cheese and sugar in stand mixer and mix on medium until creamy
- Add egg and vanilla and mix on medium until combined
- Add flour, pudding mix, baking soda and salt and mix until combined
- Stir in chocolate chips
- Scoop up the cookie dough and place on the cookie sheet - 16 on a sheet. Bake for 15 minutes. The cookies should be a little browned on the edges and slightly soft to the touch
- Let cool for 5 minutes on the sheet before transferring the cookies to a wire rack
- Eat
- Smile
- Enjoy
Notes
- Make sure to take out the butter at least an hour before you start on the cookies.
- To make the butter soften quicker, cut it into pads.
- I use the double chocolate pudding mix, but you can use the regular chocolate pudding mix.
- Use a medium cookie scoop. It makes for airy-soft cookies.
- The baked cookies should be slightly browned on the edges and a little soft to the touch.
OMG! To make about 35 cookies for 25 minutes? I am gonna make them right now! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Irina!! 🙂 They are so scrumptious!
Is there anything yummier than a good chocolate cookie? Oh, this one is so good.
Thanks so much Jennifer! I appreciate it.
What delicious little cookies these are. I am going to have to try them!
I hope you enjoy them when you do! Thank you Dannii!
I definitely think cream cheese is an underused ingredient, and this looks like such a delicious way to use it. Can’t wait to try!
Thanks Lizzy. Everyone loves them and my hubby enjoys these more than the pistachio ones I make!
So scrumptious and I seriously love how easy these are!
Thanks so much Kim!
Soft, simple, and absolutely delicious!
Thanks so much Michelle! 🙂
I just know these little gems would be so delicious. Eating just one would be IMPOSSIBLE. That cream cheese and chocolate combination is so good.
Thanks so much Gloria! 🙂
These soft cookies are indeed delish! I am pretty sure between me and Loreto we would take care of quite a few on that plate 😉 !
Hehe! I’m sure you both could too, Nicoletta! 🙂
Just look at that puff!!! I love a great, soft chocolate cookie! Yours look super yummy and easy! Pinning for later!
Thanks Lori! They are puffy and delicious and fabulous! Everyone loves them!
This is a fun unique recipe! What a great idea adding cream cheese and chocolate pudding to the cookie mix. They look delicious and I’m pinning this to make later.
Thanks Michelle! I appreciate it!
Oh my goodness these chocolate cookies also have cream cheese?! I am sooo excited to make these beauties! I love that they are fast too – nothing worse than when you have to refrigerate dough first!
Hehe. Yup! I almost never refrigerate cookie dough any more! Thanks Aleta!
Ha ha, it’s funny how we feel bad for those recipes that drop to the number two spot! These cookies look so yummy, look forward to trying them!
Hehe. I’m glad I’m not alone in that! Thanks Carrie! 🙂 I hope you enjoy them.
Oh how I wish I had one right now 😀 These look soo good! I love the cream cheese and pudding mix in there…I bet these are scrumptious!
They really are Tammy! Thank you!
Your step by step pictures and directions will make making these chocolate cream cheese cookies super easy.
Thanks Kelly!
Don’t we just all love easy!! These chocolate cookies look so good and flavorful. What a great way to whip up a dessert in no time. I’ve got the pudding and the cream cheese. Now all I have to do is make the cookies.
Thanks Marisa! I love when I have someone’s recipe ingredients on hand, that way I have instant gratification.
These look amazing!! Loving that you used the pudding!! Cookies are my weakness so I’ll be making these for sure!
Yay! I hope you enjoy them Amanda!
Pass some over here!!! I’m already saying Mmmmmm! I love any dessert with cream cheese. The cream cheese and chocolate combo in a cookie definitely has me interested! Cannot wait to try these.
Thanks so much Michele! I hope you enjoy them when you do! 🙂
Now you have me feeling nostalgic – the first cookies I baked when I was a kid had pudding mix in them. Not cream cheese, though… LOL (I think it used a baking mix – this looks altogether better!) It was a great way to learn, because they always came out well, and I developed confidence. These look so moist and soft!
Thanks Anne, I appreciate it! How fun. I love recipes that remind me of my childhood. My first cookie I made myself is the snickerdoodle and I remember it vividly!