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Chocolate Cream Cheese Cookies

Name: Chocolate Cream Cheese Cookies
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
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 soda; .50 teaspoon salt; 3.4 ounces chocolate fudge pudding mix ((or regular chocolate - cook and serve if you can get it, or instant if you can't)); .50 cup chocolate chips

Last updated on December 16, 2020. Originally posted on July 29, 2019 By Elaine 44 Comments

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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.

A bite taken out of one of the cookies. It is being held over a plate of cookies

People obsess over my pudding and cream cheese cookies. Now I have three of them on Dishes Delish: this one and the pistachio cookies recipe, which is by far my #2 recipe on the blog. The other one is pumpkin cream cheese cookies.

If you like soft, flavorful cookies, you will enjoy these chocolate cream cheese cookies. These are hubby’s favorite.

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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.
You can either use pudding mix that you cook or instant. I use the cook and serve version as I find it more vibrant tasting than instant.
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.

How to make these chocolate 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)

On the left - butter, cream cheese, egg and vanilla. On the right - pudding, flour, sugar and baking soda

Step four

Add butter, cream cheese and sugar to the stand mixer. (C)

Step five

Turn the mixer on medium and mix until creamy. (D)

On the left - butter, cream cheese and sugar. On the right - the ingredients creamed

Step six

Add egg and vanilla. (E)

Step seven

Turn mixer on medium and mix until combined. (F)

On the left - egg and vanilla added to mixer. On the right - mixed in together

Step eight

Add the pudding mix, flour, salt and baking soda. (G)

Step nine

Stir in chocolate chips with a spatula. Use a cookie scoop to place the dough on the sheet. (H)

On the left - pudding, flour and baking soda in the mixer. And on the right - a hand holding a scoop of batter over the cookie sheet with a bowl of batter in the background

Continue placing the dough balls on the sheets. Don’t they look like chocolate mousse balls?

A cookie sheet with balls of chocolate cookie dough in front of a bowl of dough in the back

Step ten

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.

Wait 5 minutes before removing the cookies to a wire rack to cool.

cream cheese cookies cooling on a wire rack

Gather your friends and pile the cookies on a plate.

Small plate of chocolate cookies with milk over to the side

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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