My friend Bridget asked me if I would donate cookies to her school’s fundraising event. One of the challenges of being a food blogger is finding a home for all the desserts that I bake, so these kinds of opportunities are a great excuse to try a new recipe. Bridget specifically wanted me to donate a few already-baked cookies along with a couple of bags of frozen cookie dough so that the lucky winner would not have to eat 4 dozen cookies at once. I flipped through my must-make-cookies and came across this recipe that a friend had forwarded to me months ago.
After reading the directions, I realized that their assembly was way too complicated for me to ask someone else to prepare at home. It involved dividing dough balls into disks, mashing cream cheese between the disks and pinching the dough balls together while hoping that the cream cheese would not ooze out any cracks that formed. A tester batch was in order. I prepared one cookie as directed in the recipe and two cookies with a small amount of cream cheese pressed into the center of the baked cookie. A friend dropped by randomly and we taste tested the results. The cream-cheese topped cookies were a clear winner. My friend declared these cookies some of the best snicker doodles she has ever had. I’m not usually a snicker doodle fan, but I could see why she liked them so much. They are crunchy on the outside, soft on the inside, and the cream cheese topping is really something special.
Sprinkles are not necessary, unless you’re my husband, in which case sprinkles are always necessary. The cookies looked pale without some sort of additional color, so if you don’t use sprinkles, you could top the cream cheese dollop with a bit of freshly grated cinnamon.
Largely adapted from At Home With Haley
These are superior snicker doodles made extra fancy with a cream cheese topping!
Ingredients
Instructions
- Heat oven to 400 degrees.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, beat 1 1/2 cups sugar with the butter for 1 minute, or until fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time and once they have been combined, scrape the sides of the bowl. Stir in flour, cream of tartar, baking soda and salt.
- Mix the 1/4 cup sugar and 2 teaspoons of cinnamon in a small bowl and set to the side.
- Shape dough into two 2-inch balls. Roll in the cinnamon sugar mixture and place on a baking tray spaced at least 2 inches apart. Bake for 8-10 minutes or until lightly golden. These cookies will appear under-cooked.
- While cookies are baking, cream together the cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla extract. Spoon into a piping bag and set aside.
- Once the cookies are cooked, immediately use the back of a teaspoon to make a slight indentation in the cookies. Pipe a small amount of the cream cheese mixture on top of each cookie. Top with sprinkles. Let cool and enjoy!
12 responses so far ↓
1 Random Friend // Nov 17, 2011 at 3:23 pm
Your friend sounds awesome.
P.S. I’m going to pretend that the bite in the picture was made by me. Because if I had still been there, it would have been. THEY WERE SO DELICIOUS!! I can’t wait to make them!
- Liz ;D
2 Gerri // Nov 17, 2011 at 5:17 pm
My son loves snicker doodles, IF they are crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside and I like cream cheese on anything so I’ll be trying this recipe. But, I have a question, would these have to be refrigerated because of the cream cheese?
3 Paula // Nov 17, 2011 at 5:48 pm
Gherri – I refrigerated the ones that I wasn’t eating within a couple hours. Then I pulled them back out again and uncovered them to let them come to temperature before I ate them for dessert again the next day!
4 Angie@Angiesrecipes // Nov 18, 2011 at 11:11 am
Love snicker doodles too. Must give this a try soon.
5 Jesica @ Pencil Kitchen // Nov 19, 2011 at 2:20 pm
A few of my friends has asked for some snickerdoodles… I have not the slightest interest in them until now…
6 Reem | Simply Reem // Nov 20, 2011 at 10:40 pm
THESE LOOK GOOOOOOODDDD!!!!
I mean it, I love snicker doodles now need to try this recipe…
delicicous!!!
7 natalie (the sweets life) // Nov 23, 2011 at 9:42 am
these sound great! and much simpler than the other recipe!
i need to find some bake sales to donate to, i have the same problem as you
8 Jo // Nov 25, 2011 at 9:53 am
Looks amazing! We’d love for you to share with us over at foodepix.com
9 Nicole@HeatOvenTo350 // Nov 28, 2011 at 2:15 pm
I love snickerdoodles, and the idea of a cream cheese topping sounds wonderful! I’ll have to try this out next time I make snickerdoodles.
10 Do labradoodles eat snickerdoodles? // Feb 10, 2012 at 10:35 pm
I made these today (my first snickerdoodle attempt ever!) and they were delicious! I made the balls too large so that they all baked into one big pan of cookie and took longer to cook, BUT, still delicious!
11 Are my snickerdoodles laughing at me? (*snicker, snicker*) // Mar 15, 2012 at 9:08 pm
I made these again tonight, and I find that I need to add a bit more flour than the recipe calls for in order to get them to the pictured puffiness.
12 thisistheonlycookieimakenow // Jul 5, 2012 at 9:39 pm
Making these again tonight! P.S. My friend Laura and I have nicknamed them Crack Cookies . . . so addicting!
- Liz
P.S. This comment leaver in no way advocates actual drug use . . . just sugar cane, cocoa beans and occasionally caffeine.