Cream Cheese Sprinkle Cookies Recipe
These cream cheese cookies are covered in sprinkles and have a chocolate chip surprise inside! The cream cheese and brown sugar make these cookies super moist and creamy. A touch of cinnamon flavor and colorful sprinkles makes these cookies out of this world!
Equipment
- Parchment paper (or non-stick cooking spray)
- Cookie scoop (optional)
Ingredients
- 2½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup light brown sugar firmly packed
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 8 oz cream cheese softened
- 3/4 cup unsalted butter softened
- 1 large egg
- 1 tbsp cornstarch
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 3/4 tsp table salt
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
- Chocolate chips
- Rainbow ball sprinkles
Instructions
- We will be preheating the oven in Step 13 to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Set out the cream cheese at room temperature to soften.
- Soften the butter in a bowl that is safe for the microwave for 20 seconds in the microwave.
- In a large bowl, add the butter to the light brown sugar, granulated sugar, and cream cheese. Mix well.
- Add the egg and the vanilla extract to the butter, sugars, and cream cheese mixture. Mix until well blended.
- In a different bowl, add the flour, cornstarch, baking powder, salt, and ground cinnamon. Mix well.
- Slowly add the flour mixture to the butter, cream cheese, and sugar mixture. Mix until well blended into cookie dough.
- Put the cookie dough in the refrigerator for about 2 hours to chill so it won't be so sticky.
- After chilling the cookie dough, take it out of the refrigerator and fill a cookie scoop about 3/4 full of cookie dough. Or you can use a spoon and then roll the cookie dough in your lightly floured hands to form a ball.
- Push a couple of chocolate chips, one at a time, all around the center of the cookie dough. Then cover the chocolate chips with some more cookie dough.
- Pour some sprinkles into a small bowl.
- Squeeze the cookie scoop handle and let the ball of cookie dough fall into the bowl of sprinkles. Roll it around in the sprinkles to cover all sides of the ball of cookie dough. Repeat these steps for the rest of the cookie dough.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper, or spray the cookie sheet with non-stick cooking spray.
- Place the balls of cookie dough with sprinkles on them on the cookie sheet about 2 inches apart.
- Repeat with more cookie dough until the cookie sheet is filled.
- Put the remaining cookie dough back into the refrigerator in between each batch.
- Use the heat-resistant oven mitts to put the cookies into the oven and bake the cookies at 350 degrees for 13 minutes.
- After 13 minutes, use the oven mitts to take the cookies out of the oven. Let the cookies sit on the cookie sheet for a couple of minutes to cool.
- Transfer the cookies to a cooling rack for another couple of minutes to completely cool.
- Repeat these steps for additional batches of cookies.
Notes
- Depending on the power level of your microwave, keep an eye on the butter while it is in the microwave.
- Do not add more flour to this cookie dough. Adding more flour will make the cookie harder.
- This cookie dough can be chilled longer than a couple of hours, even a couple of
days if need be. Cover the cookie dough with plastic wrap if it's going to be in the refrigerator longer than a few hours. - If the cookie dough is still too sticky after chilling it, very lightly dust your hands with flour if you aren't using a cookie scoop.
- If you have two cookie sheets, use them. While one batch is baking, the second batch will be ready to go into the oven when the first batch is done.
Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!