Cranberry Cheesecake Cookies

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I love cookbooks but I feel that due to the ease of technology I don’t pull them out as much as I should. I mean there is something so surreal about holding a cookbook in your hands and pursuing the recipes. This year for Christmas, I decided I was going to pull out my cookbooks and commit to making at least five (5) cookie recipes that I have never made before.

This cookie recipe is the fourth new cookie recipe in my quest to make five new cookie recipes this Christmas season. I actually found this recipe in the “bake FROM SCRATCH Holiday Cookies Special Edition released in December 2020. This recipe is from a feature about Laura Kasavan, a food photographer, stylist, and recipe developer based in Northern California and writer of Tutti Dolci, a baking blog celebrating all things sweet.

This cookie is a cheesecake and cranberry lover’s dream. These soft graham cookies are topped with Cream Cheese Buttercream with little dollops of jeweled cranberry sauce.

I absolutely loved, loved these cookies. I love cranberry sauce and when you add a cheesecake cookie and cream cheese buttercream you will find the perfect bite of sweet and tart. Now that I have tasted this wonderful cookie it definitely ranks up there as one of my favorite cookies.

Makes 24 cookies.

Cranberry Cheesecake Cookies

Recipe by Laura KasavanCourse: DessertCuisine: American
Servings

12

servings
Prep time

30

minutes
Cooking time

15

minutes

This cranberry cheesecake cookie with cream cheese buttercream and a dollop of jeweled cranberry sauce is the perfect bite of sweet and tart.

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature

  • 4 ounces cream cheese, room temperature

  • 3/4 cup granulated sugar, plus more for rolling

  • 1/4 cup firmly packed light brown sugar

  • 1 large egg, room temperature

  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

  • 2 1/4 cups all purpose flour

  • 1 teaspoon cornstarch

  • 1 teaspoon baking soda

  • 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt

  • Graham cracker crumbs, for rolling

  • Cream Cheese Buttercream (recipe follows)

  • Cranberry Sauce (recipe follows)

  • Cream Cheese Buttercream (makes 2 cups)
  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature

  • 4 ounces cream cheese, room temperature

  • 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt

  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

  • 3 cups confectioners sugar, sifted

  • Cranberry Sauce (makes about 1 1/2 cups)
  • 3 cups fresh or frozen cranberries

  • 3/4 cups granulated sugar

  • 1/8 teaspoon kosher salt

  • 2 tablespoons water

  • 1 1/2 teaspoons almond extract

Directions

  • In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat butter and cream cheese at medium smooth. Add sugars, and beat until fluffy, 3 to 4 minutes, stopping to scrape sides of bowl. Beeat in egg and vanilla until combined.
  • In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, cornstarch, baking soda, and salt. With mixer on slow speed, gradually add flour mixture, beating until combined. Cover and refrigerate for 3 hours or overnight.
  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line baking sheets parchment paper.
  • Using a 1 1/2 tablespoon spring-loaded scoop, scoop dough, and roll in granulated sugar to coat; roll in graham cracker crumbs to coat. Place 2 inches apart on prepared pans.
  • Bake until golden and tops and edges are set, 12 to 14 minutes, rotating pans halfway through baking. Let cool on pans for 10 minutes.
  • Place Cream Cheese Buttercream in a pastry bag fitted with a 1 inch closed star tip (Wilson No. 2D). Pipe a ring of buttercream around edges of each cookie. Pipe or spoon Cranberry Sauce in center of buttercream ring. Serve immediately.
  • Cream Cheese Buttercream
  • In a bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat butter, cream cheese and salt at medium speed until smooth, 2 to 3 minutes. Beat in vanilla. Gradually add confectioners’ sugar, beating at low speed until combined, increase mixer speed to medium-high, and beat until light and airy, 1 to 2 minutes. Use immediately.
  • Cranberry Sauce
  • In a medium heavy-bottomed saucepan, cook cranberries, sugar and salt over medium-high heat, stirring constantly, until cranberries begin to burst and mixture is boiling. Reduce heat to low; stir in 2 tablespoons water and almond extract, and simmer, stirring occasionally, for 5 minutes. Transfer to a glass bowl, and let cool completely.
 

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