cheesecake cookies
cheesecake cookies
Just the thought of a picnic has me wishing that my favorites will be there when we lay out the blanket. One favorite I’d like to see on a picnic is cheesecake. I really love cheesecake! To make it a bit easier to pack I had an idea to make cheese COOKIES, and I love when ideas like this turn out GREAT, like these did. Earth day is April 22. These will be perfect for Picnic for the Planet.
Celebrate Earth Day and Picnic for the Planet, pack of your favorite items, grab your friends and family and head on out on an adventure to enjoy all the Earth has to offer.
These cookies are cake-like cookies, soft and bake up a bit fluffy. The cheesecake icing and graham cracker crumbs are just the perfect addition to these.
cheesecake cookies
Ingredients
- 8 oz cream cheese room temperature
- 1/2 cup butter room temperature
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 6 drops cheesecake flavor Loranns
- 2 1/2 cups flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Icing:
- 1/2 cup butter room temperature
- 2 oz cream cheese room temperature
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 3 tablespoons milk
- 2 drops cheese cake flavor
- 1/2 cup graham cracker crumbs
Instructions
- Beat cream cheese and butter, then add sugar and mix until smooth.
- Add eggs one at a time until incorporated.
- Mix in vanilla and cheesecake flavor.
- Add the flour, baking powder and salt to the butter mixture and combine until blended well.
- Roll out on floured surface and cut with cookie cutter into desired shape, I rolled these out to 1/4 inch
- Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes.
- Icing:
- Beat butter and cream cheese, add in sugar, milk and flavor.
- Pipe on completely cooled cookies and then press the frosted side into a dish of graham cracker crumbs so they stick to the icing. Refrigerate so the icing stays firm.
Are you ready to go for a picnic?
Picnic for the Planet is a celebration of the planet we live on, the food it provides and the people we share it with. In short, the planet does a lot for us — we should take it out for lunch!
I like to take lemon cakes in a jar on picnics. What a great way to celebrate earth day!
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I plan on getting my free tree form the city and planting it! We do it every year.
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I love picnics! These cookies look fabulous! My favorite picnic dish is caprese salad yum!
If I won the basket, I’d definitely fill it with your scrumptious cookies.
My favorite thing to bring to a picnic is my family. Picnics are a great way to spend quality time together with out the interruption of everyone’s electronics.
The cookies are so cute! Perfect for a picnic! Cookies are a must for picnics:)
Diane-LOVE LOVE LOVE these! cheesecake cookies-genius!
We always take fruit on our picnics….and COOKIES!! 🙂
Those cookies are adorable, Diane! It’s always fun to bring along a special treat on a picnic.
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My favorite thing at a picnic is definitely home made chocolate chip cookies. They are perfect for sharing with friends and family that may tag along!
I would bring my whole extended family to my picnic!
I would bring the whole extended family on our picnic
You are just brilliant Diane – making your favorite cheesecake into cookies! I love making sesame noodles for picnics.
Can’t go wrong with fried chicken.
I like to freeze grapes for picnics, that way if its a while before we eat they are still cool and refreshing and if we eat not long after leaving they still make for a nice cooling treat!
A bottle of wine or champagne, it adds a little glamour to a low key picnic. Can’t wait to try these!
as long as we are having fun as a family i like to have anything on a picnic! but homemade cookies are always a great addition 🙂
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we are going to be with family…doing what i’m not sure yet…but hopefully it’ll be great! :))
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Earth day is my birthday, so I would picnic with my family
I visited the nature conservancy website I think I will get my family together for a beach picnic on earth day
These sound amazing Diane! I can’t wait to try this recipe! YUM!
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My favorite item for a picnic is a veggie wrap and/or potato salad!
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Mmmmm. Just, MMMMM! I wish we were next door neighbors.
You’re killing me with all these awesome cookies! Thanks for this recipe, love them!
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Wow! That looks beautiful. The first picture makes it looks like nuggets! 🙂
very fun and creative cookies as always!
Not entering the giveaway. Just had to say how novel and original these little cheesecake cookies are.
I would love to have a picnic with my boyfriend.
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I love to take berry desserts or watermelon to picnics..
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We love taking Welch Dessert Cakes on a picnic. It’s about the only time I make them, so the family really enjoys it when I do.
Favorite picnic food: Jimmy John’s #2! 🙂
My favorite thing to take on a picnic is a pasta salad, great bread, yummy cookies and lemonade to quench your thirst! Mmmmmm!!!
wow this looks amazing!
What a perfect way to make cheesecake portable! So cute too in the heart shape.
I would bring my smoked ribs and have mu wife come with her potato salad the best
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I love to bring cupcakes to picnics. So much easier and no fork needed:-) These cookies are awesome!!!!
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My favorite thing to bring is a board game. Those cookies look tasty!
My bring-along picnic food is usually a fruit salad or brown sugar baked beans.
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My perfect picnic would consist of my favorite fried chicken, great music, and a soft breeze!
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I celebrate every Earth day by planting a tree seedling at my favorite cabin in the woods of Door County Wisconsin!
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I love bringing pasta salad to a picnic – whole wheat pasta, and LOTS of roasted or grilled veggies… filling, delicious, and nutritious.
I visited the Nature Conservancy website, and saw that there’s a picnic on Boston Common. That might be fun to go to, or perhaps my husband and I will take a hike in the woods near my house.
I love to bring a kite, my handsome fiance, and a wonderful bottle of summer dessert wine to my favorite nature centers and to just sit back, lay in the grass, and watch the clouds go by!
I promised my daughter that we would have a picnic on Memorial Day weekend, and since the closest she’s ever come to a real picnic is when we have strawberry picnics on the living room floor, I’d say I’ll have to bring some strawberries to our picnic.
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I know this is silly, but as a child my mom must have taken us on hundreds of picnics and she always packed a small bag of sugar. We would picnic on a hill behind my parents house, pick wild flowers, play in the trees and when it was over we would take the bag of sugar to the ant hill and feed the ants. The ant hill is still there and now I take my children with a bag of sugar to feed the ants. That is a picnic to me.
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We always plant a tree for Earth Day, but I thibk this year we will make recycle bins as well
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I live over sees and have never found cheesecake flavoring. Do you have another suggestion for me to try this recipe?
They will taste fine without the cheesecake flavoring, I would add an additional 1 teaspoon vanilla extract.
Here is a link to the flavor on Amazon if that helps https://www.amazon.com/LorAnn-Oils-Cheesecake-Flavouring-dram/dp/B0000VLRII/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1335209014&sr=8-2
Almond extract might be nice, but you can certainly add any flavor you’d prefer. lemon, strawberry, raspberry…. the possibilities are endless. The graham cracker crumbs will give them the feeling of cheesecake with any flavor I think.
Favorite item to bring on picnic is pastries!
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The most favorite things I bring to a picnic are my loved one. Somehow the food always seems to taste better, no matter what it is.
My perfect picnic would be me, my hubby, our 2 kids and our dog Barney. PB&J would be in our picnic basket along with some yummy potato chips.
For Earth Day this year we plan on buying a new tree for our front yard and planting it. Also we might do some more recycling that week than our normal routine. We have 3 recycle bins that we normally fill up on a weekly basis.
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Really, my favorite thing to bring to a picnic is my kiddos and husband. I love to treat with homemade treats, and lemonade 🙂
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perfect picnic with my family, fresh fruit cheese and crackers.
My favorite things to bring are watermelon and potato salad!
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Pan bagnat, potato chips and watermelon.
Love this project and love these gorgeous cookies!
Love these cookies, perfect picnic cookies indeed 🙂 I do take some home made cookies for all our family picnics
My favorite item to bring to a picnic is watermelon! Thanks for the giveaway!
Aside from wonderful food and drink, my favorite thing to bring to a picnic is reusable silverware and plates and napkins–just dump back in the basket at the end and wash at home. Way better than disposables!
I love picnic with my kids. Our favorite things to bring are salad, sandwiches, and cookie bars. 🙂
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For the Earth Day, I would love to host a picnic and raise awareness to love our planet!
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I love tomato soup in a thermos or grapes at picnics.
I love to bring sandwiches and a batch of Paula Deen’s lemon bars! mmmmm
Did you say “cheesecake”?! Yum…these cookies look so sweet and delicious. Our girls live for picnics…they would be my chosen picnic guests. 🙂
My fave item to bring on a picnic is spinach dip and a baguette! Your cream cheese cookies look to die for by the way!! Might be my new fave picnic item!!
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These cookies look wonderful. I found cheesecake flavoring on Amazon.com, but am not quite sure which type to buy. There seems to be a 1 dram size of flavoring and larger sizes of oil for candies. Can you please clarify it for me? I am ready to get them baking!
love the idea of cheesecake cookies and these are just too cute!
My girls love to take “mini” sandwiches. Something about bite sized food makes it more fun.
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Well typically I want a lot of great fruit and cheese for a picnic but now I want to make these!!!!! yum! We have an all school picnic and I’ll be bringing these….
I usually bring a nice pasta salad! Can’t beat that in the warm, summer months!
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Favorite thing to bring on a picnic? My daughters of course! And a great sandwich with lots of veggies and an extravagant cheese.
My favorite thing to bring to a picnic is my kids and potato salad;)
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I like to take cupcakes on a picnic.
I love to have watermelon on a picnic!
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Thanks so much for supporting The Nature Conservancy this Earth Day, Diane! Your cheesecake cookies look so delicious! And what a perfect portable snack for a picnic.
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My favorite picnic item is deviled eggs. A bit tricky to transport, but they’re so yummy.
I would picnic with anyone except the ants 🙂
my favorite thing to bring on a picnic is cheese!
For Earth Day, if the weather is nice, I’ll probably go visit the local botanical garden!
My favorite item to bring to a picnic is lemonade
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Lovely idea! 🙂
I love going on picnics with my honey. We usually take sandwiches and fruit.
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Potato salad! 🙂
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I would love to enjoy a beautiful day outdoors with my mom and grandma, sharing a big bowl of colorful fruit salad while bathing in the sun and sharing laughter.
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I’d love to go on a picnic with my husband and daughter, with some cold fried chicken, biscuits, coleslaw and watermelon.
OMG how have I never had a cheesecake cookie before?
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