Epic Oreo chesecake cookies

If you love cheesecake and also love cookies, you need to try my recipe for these gorgeous cookies. The “secret” ingredient is the traditional Oreo cookies. You could think it’s not  the right place to use Oreos, but, believe or not, they make the perfect dough! The result is these super moist and soft cookies (you can make them more like a crunchy cookie, that’s the way I like them)

These cookies are easy (so easy) to make. But there’s something important that may interest you: don’t use light cream cheese (or the non-fat cookie will go down in the oven) and these cookies need to be in the refrigerator until hard and cold, otherwise it could happen the same as I told you above.

Ingredients:

120 grams cream cheese

105 grams butter (at room temperature)

180 grams sugar

175 grams flour

15 Oreo cookies

30 grams cocoa powder (optional: if you want a darker cookie, go for the cocoa powder)

Method:

• In a blender, grind the Oreo cookies. If you don’t have a blender it’s not a problem. Just put the cookies in a plastic bag and smash them with a rolling pin.
• In a big bowl mix all the ingredients but the Oreos. Mix well with a wooden spoon.
• Now stir in the mashed/ground cookies. Mix well.
• Cover with cling film (plastic wrap) and refrigerate for at least 2 hours. I leave it over night.
• Preheat oven to 180ºC
• Take the dough out of the oven and with a ice-cream scoop make big cookies (I mine are always super huge, from 100grams to 120 grams. Be more realistic and make them from 70-100 grams)
• Roll them in your hands to make a circular cookie. And put all your cookies on a oven tray (covered with baking paper)
• Bake your cookies from 15-20 minutes if normal size. If huge like mines, let them for at least 25 up to 30 minutes (we prefer to undercook rather than overcook them)
• Take them out of the oven and let them cool on a wire rack.
• They freeze well up to 3 months. 

*Oven temperature may vary between one oven to another. Mine is an old (but really good) one, so, control your first batch of cookies until you know how long they need in your oven.