Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Cookies

5 from 2 votes

Jun 19, 2023, Updated Sep 11, 2025

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These cream cheese chocolate chip cookies are light, fluffy, and so moist. They’re packed with butter and cream cheese for a decadent flavor and texture, and are so easy to make.

There’s nothing in the world better than a warm, soft, chewy cookie that just came out of the oven. That’s as good as life gets. Usually when I’m making cookies I opt for my Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies, but this variation might be even better.

Close up of chocolate chip cookies on a wire rack

These cream cheese chocolate chip cookies are everything you love about a traditional chocolate chip cookie, but extra soft, creamy, fluffy, and moist. The texture is incredible, and the flavor of the cream cheese works so well with the chocolate chips, brown sugar, and vanilla.

Even though these cookies taste as if they should be in a fancy bakery, they’re remarkably easy to make. They don’t take much time or effort, so you can whip them up anytime you have a craving for a moist and chewy cookie. Pour yourself a glass of milk and you have the perfect afternoon treat!

A chocolate chip cookie on a plate, split down the middle

Ingredients Needed
How to Make Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Cookies
Recipe Tips and Tricks
Storage
More Easy Cookie Recipes to Make
Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

Ingredients Needed

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Butter – I always use unsalted butter when baking
Cream cheese – Full-fat cream cheese is best.
Light brown sugar
Granulated sugar
Egg
Vanilla extract – Always use 100% pure extract.
All-purpose flour
Cornstarch – a secret ingredients for all your cookies that keeps them thick and soft for days!
Baking soda
Salt
Semisweet chocolate chips

Overhead view of the ingredients needed for cream cheese chocolate chip cookies: a bowl of flour, a bowl of sugar, a bowl of chocolate chips, a bowl of brown sugar, a bowl of cream cheese, a bowl of vanilla extract, a bowl of baking soda and cornstarch, a stick of butter, and an egg

How to Make Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Cookies

Here’s how to make these easy, chewy cookies. They’re so quick and so easy.

Cream the dairy. Add the butter, cream cheese, granulated sugar, and brown sugar to a stand mixer. Beat until the mixture is fluffy, which should take 2-3 minutes.
Add the egg. Put the egg and the vanilla into the mixture and beat until combined.
Finish the dough. Add the flour, cornstarch, baking soda, and salt to the bowl, and mix until everything is well combined. Put some of the chocolate chips in the dough, and stir until they’re evenly distributed.

Wet cookie dough with an egg on top in a stand mixed bowl

A stand mixer paddle mixing cookie dough with a pile of chocolate chips

Chill. Scoop balls of cookie dough onto a baking sheet or tray. Cover with plastic wrap and place the cookie dough in the fridge for at least 2 hours.
Preheat. When the dough is almost done chilling, preheat your oven to 350F.
Shape. Place the chilled dough balls on a prepared baking sheet, and lightly press down on them to flatten them a little bit.
Bake. Put the cookies in the oven and bake until they’re golden brown and the edges are set. This should take 10-12 minutes.

Close up of a few chocolate chip cookies on a baking sheet

Cool. Remove the baking sheet from the oven, and place a few chocolate chips on top of each cookie. Let the cookies cool for 5 minutes, then transfer them to a wire rack.

Recipe Tips and Tricks

Chill the dough for a long time. This recipe calls for you to chill the dough balls in the fridge for 2 hours. This helps the flavors meld and the texture become smoother. But the cookies will be even better if you chill the dough overnight. If you have the time, let the dough chill in the fridge overnight, and then bake the cookies the next day.
Use room-temperature ingredients. For the best results, use cream cheese and eggs that are at room temperature. When these ingredients come straight out of the fridge, they’re too cold to mix well with other ingredients. If you let them sit at room temperature for 30 minutes before baking, they’ll become soft enough to mix well with the other ingredients in the cookies. That will make the texture of the cookies a lot better.
Evenly space. Don’t put the cookies too close to each other on the baking sheet. As the cookies bake, they’ll flatten and expand. Give them enough room to do that without running into each other, so that each cookie can end up with a nice edge.

Storage

Leftover cream cheese chocolate chip cookies can be stored in an airtight container or bag at room temperature for up to 4 days. Just make sure to store them out of direct sunlight. They’ll also last in the fridge for 1 week.

Freezing

You can definitely freeze these decadent cookies! Double-bag them in airtight plastic bags and store them in the freezer for up to 4 months. You can also store the cookie dough in an airtight container in the freezer for 6 months.

Or you can freeze the balls of dough in a freezer safe bag for up to 6 months. Just take out a couple and you can bake up fresh cookies any night of the week.

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