Cookies and Cream Cookies

These two in one cookies are the perfect holiday cookie. Cookies and Cream Cookies are made from scratch with simple ingredients. The combination of the butter and cream cheese keeps them soft and chewy.

If you are looking for a delicious cookie to make this holiday, make these Cookies and Cream Cookies. You can enjoy this dessert recipe in less than 30 minutes. These cookies would be perfect with a large glass of milk. You may even like Candy Cane Cookies or Candy Cane Cookies.

Why We Love these Oreo Cookies

• Perfectly Soft – I love a soft cookie and adding the crushed Oreo gives it the perfect soft and crunchy texture.
• Simple Ingredients – With all of our holiday baking, we stock up on all our basic baking ingredients. This makes it easy to make these cookies at the last minute.
• The Perfect Party Cookie – These cookies are perfect for your holiday dessert trays, wrap up as a gift or take to a cookie exchange party. Delicious, soft, and chewy cookie that everyone will love.

Ingredients

Scroll to the bottom for the full recipe in the recipe card.

Recipe Variations

We love this Cookie recipe, but feel free to add in other ingredients for more flavor. Here are some of our suggestions.

• Chocolate Chips – This recipe would be delicious with white chocolate chips, white chocolate chunks or milk chocolate chips.
• Hershey’s Candy – A fun twist on this recipe is to add in Hershey’s Cookies and Cream mini candy bars. They give the cookie base a delicious creamy flavor.
• Oreos – Feel free to change the Oreos to a different flavor.
• Ice Cream – Serve these cookies with a scoop of Cookies and Cream Ice Cream for delicious flavor.

How to Make Cookies and Cream Cookies

• Step 1 – Heat Oven – Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

Step 2 – Combine butter and sugars – Beat together the unsalted butter, and cream cheese and white sugar and light brown sugar with an electric mixer. Once combined, add in the egg and vanilla extract and mix well.

Step 3 – Mix the Dry Ingredients – In a separate bowl, stir to combine the flour, salt, cornstarch and baking soda.

Step 4 – Combine Butter & add the Dry Ingredients – Then mix the flour mixture into the wet ingredients.  Stir until the ingredients are just combined.  Do not over mix.

Step 5 – Mix in Crushed Oreo – Fold in the chunks of Oreo Cookie Pieces by hand. 

Step 6 – Roll dough into Balls – Roll the cookie dough into approximately 1.5 Tablespoon size balls and place on a lined baking sheet with parchment paper. 

Step 7 – Bake Cookies – Bake for 12-13 minutes until the edges of the cookies are slightly brown. Let cookies cool and then they are ready to serve.

Cookie Recipe Tips

• Mixing Ingredients – We recommend mixing ingredients until combine. Mix the ingredients by hand or use a stand mixer with paddle attachment for best results. You can also mix with hand mixer. Make sure to scrape sides of the bowl with a spatula to get all ingredients.
• Measuring Ingredients – Add ingredients exactly as the recipe card indicates. These measurements helps to create a soft and chewy cookie. If adding to much flour it could result in a dry cookie.
• Softened Cream Cheese and Butter – Allowing the butter and cream cheese to softened at room temperature allows for a smooth and creamy texture.
• Chilling Dough – When we prepared the cookie dough, we did not chill the dough before rolling it and placing on the baking sheet. But if you make ahead of time, place the cookie dough mixture in the refrigerator.
• Prepared Baking Sheet – For an easy cleanup and to easily remove cookie from the baking sheet, line with sheets of parchment paper.
• Cooling Cookies – Once the cookies have baked, allow them to cool on the baking sheet. They will actually finish cooking for a few minutes. Then move them to a cooling rack.
• Cookie Scoop – A cookie scoop will help to ensure each cookie is the same size. This will also help the cookies to bake evenly. It also makes it fast and easy to scoop the cookies. We used a medium size cookie scoop.
• Baking Cookies – When we bake cookies, we recommend putting one cookie sheet in the oven at a time. This allows for the cookies to bake evenly.
• Chop the cookies – The cookies turn out prettier if you chop the cookies instead of crushing them. Chopping them helps to keep the cream inside the cookies.

How to get Perfectly Round Cookies

To get a perfectly round cookies, you can either use a round shape cookie cutter or the bottom of a glass.

• Place the cookie cutter over the cookie. It should be bigger than the cookie.
• Then use the cookie cutter to mold the edges so that it smooths in a round cookie. You will twist the cookie cutter in a swirling motion.

Can You Use Other Flavor Oreos?

Yes, feel free to get creative when making these cookies. We love to use different Oreos when making these cookies. Try these other flavors.

• Peanut Butter
• Lemon
• Golden
• Mint
• The options are endless!

How to Freeze

These cookies and cream cookies are be frozen two different ways. You can prepare the dough and freeze or freeze the baked cookies.

Freezing the Cookie Dough:

• Prepare the dough and portion out into balls, then place on a cookie sheet.
• Allow the cookie dough balls to freeze for about an hour and then place in a zip lock bag.
• This will allow you to bake a small portion of cookies and cream cookies.
• Then when you are ready to bake the cookies, remove the cookie dough balls and thaw.

Freezing Baked Cookies:

Allow the cookies to cool to room temperature and place them in a freezer safe bag. They will stay fresh up to 3 months if stored properly.

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