Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cheesecake Bars
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cheesecake Bars. The holy grail of cookie bars for cheesecake and cookie dough lovers and only 174 calories each!
For many, these cookie dough cheesecake bars will be the holy grail of cookie bars; a perfect caloric storm of flavour with a buttery graham cracker crumb crust, a vanilla cheesecake centre and gobs of cookie dough on top.
Because the cookie dough gets baked on top of the cheesecake, it just bakes to a light golden color on top and beneath retains a cookie dough texture.
What an amazing combination in a single treat! They also freeze very well so you can take one or two out at a time to enjoy over several weeks...if they last that long.
I like to use 50% dark chocolate chips because they combine so well with cheesecake flavour. You can use any you prefer though.
2017 Update: This recipe has become one of our most popular cookie bars ever on Rock Recipes. If you like this one you may also like our Cherry Vanilla Cheesecake Bars or our very popular Blueberry Lemon Cheesecake Dessert Bars .
You may also like another very popular version in our Chocolate Cherry Cheesecake Bars!
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Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cheesecake Bars - The holy grail of cookie bars for cheesecake and cookie dough lovers alike.
Ingredients
For the Graham Crumb Base Layer
- 1½ cups graham cracker crumbs
- ⅓ cup melted butter
- 2 tablespoon sugar
For the Cheesecake Center Layer
- 1 cup cream cheese, (that's an 8 ounce package)
- ⅓ cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
For the Cookie Dough Topping
- ⅓ cup butter
- ¼ cup white sugar
- ¼ cup dark brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¾ cup flour
- pinch salt
- ⅔ cup chocolate chips
Instructions
To Prepare the Crumb Base
- Mix together the graham crumbs, melted butter and sugar.
- Press firmly into the bottom of a greased or parchment paper lined 9x9 inch baking pan. Bake for 5 minutes at 325 degrees F.
To Prepare the Cheesecake Center Layer
- Cream together the cream cheese and sugar very well.
- Add the egg and vanilla and mix until well blended.
- Spread evenly over the graham crumb crust.
To Prepare the Cookie Dough Topping
- Cream together the butter, white sugar, brown sugar and vanilla extract very well.
- Mix together the flour and salt and add to the creamed mixture.
- Fold in just until a dough forms then mix in the chocolate chips.
- Pick up the cookie dough in handfuls and press into a ball.
- Break off small nuggets of the dough and sprinkle these evenly over the cheesecake layer.
- Bake at 325 degrees F for 30-35 minutes or until the cookie dough just begins to brown on top.
- Cool completely in the pan before cutting into squares or bars.
- Store in an airtight container in the fridge if you are not freezing these cookie bars.
Notes
The nutritional information provided is automatically calculated by third party software and is meant as a guideline only. Exact accuracy is not guaranteed. For recipes where all ingredients may not be used entirely, such as those with coatings on meats, or with sauces or dressings for example, calorie & nutritional values per serving will likely be somewhat lower than indicated.
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Nutrition Information
Yield
24Serving Size
cookie barAmount Per Serving Calories 174Saturated Fat 5gCholesterol 31mgSodium 116mgCarbohydrates 18gSugar 12gProtein 1g
These definitely would not last a week, let alone a day in our house!
When a recipe calls for butter....do you use real butter or margarine? If real butter, salted or unsalted? HAVE to make these!!
I never use anything but real butter. I use both salted and unsalted depending on the recipe but if using salted I omit any salt in the recipe. For frostings and things I always use unsalted.
I made this today and it was delicious! I cut some of the sugar since I don't like desserts too sweet, and these turned out perfect! A great recipe 😀
In the oven now!! They look delicious 😀
Made this for my daughter's birthday, but as a cheesecake. I doubled the cheesecake portion, and baked in a 9 inch spring form pan for about an hour. Everyone raved about it! Thanks for the recipe.
That's a great idea Penny. I was thinking of doing it as a tart too.
How many does this yield?
The recipe says 2 dozen.
Actually, I was wondering the same thing as Maria because the recipe says "24 dozen"... Either way, however, these sound delicious!
My mistake. The recipe originally said 2 dozen but in the update I had to add 24 as quantity to get the calorie and nutrition calculator to work properly. I just forgot to take out the word "dozen". @4 dozen would have been some pretty tiny cookie bars! LOL!
Barry, got your cook book for my birthday. The first thing that caught my eye was this recipe (I do love my desserts). I made them ASAP. Seriously, these should not even be legal. You managed to combine my 2 favourite desserts and the result is sooooooooo delicious!!!!! I ended up making a few batches and shared them with family and coworkers....everyone loves them. So amazing. THANK YOU!!!!!! And I've gone on to try many of the other recipes in your book, love them all. You, Sir, are awesome!
I'm blushing. So glad you are enjoying the book. Look for Book number two this fall.
Oh my I agree! I've made them several times as well with everyone raving and not a crumb left in sight, just amazing! Thanks for these thighs that don't lie LOOL ... I make and eat too many of your recipes to fit as well as I once did in my skinny jeans but I do it with a smile so I'm happy ,..
And I make these w a tbs of course sea salt in cookie dough and the sweet and salty is heaven!
Hi, this recipe looks great and I was going to make it for Thanksgiving. Do you think I could double the recipe and make it in a 9x13 pan?
Thanks so much
(x9 inch pan recipes are multiplied by 1.5 for a 9x13 inch pan.
is the white sugar icing sugar?
no. Plain white sugar.
Wow these look delicious! I can't wait to make some.
I just bought your cookie cookbook. Love it so much! just in time for Christmas. I want to make these wonderful looking bars.
What kind of chocolate chips would you suggest? semi-sweet? milk?
Whichever you like best. I use dark myself in everything 50% cocoa.
These are delicious and surprisingly easy to make thanks to the detailed recipe. They are quite rich-tasting, as you would expect, so a square or two makes a great dessert. I used dark chocolate chips and salted butter (omitted the pinch of salt in the recipe) and they turned out great. Every recipe I've tried from this site has turned out almost exactly like the pictures, which is such a pleasant surprise for a relatively new home cook.
The cookie bars are delicious, everybody liked them even if I have cut down some sugar. I have one question: where can I find the recipes with metric measurements? I use an online weight convertor but actually I am never sure that it is the right one 🙂 Thanks, Anca