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These Strawberry Cheesecake Chocolate Cookie Cups are super fun, easy to make and beautiful! They’re great for sharing or enjoying as an individual treat.
If you like this recipe, you’ll absolutely love this Strawberry Brownie Cheesecake. It’s chocolate strawberry heaven!
Strawberry Cheesecake Chocolate Cookie Cups
So are you an American Idol watcher? I was for the longest time and then a few years ago life got busy and watching two 2-hour shows a week just got long. Plus, the auditions in the beginning had started to get annoying since they’d kind of show one disaster after another.
My parents have remained fans through the years though. They’d told me to give it another shot because they do the auditions differently now. Well, with it being the least year for the show – the “farewell” season – I decided to watch. Time to say goodbye.
Well as it turns out, the folks are right. The auditions are much more focused now on the talented people and their stories now.
And you guys. Not only are there a lot of people who are quite talented, but the stories. They are getting me. Like, every time. I mean seriously, I’m about to burst into tears every time someone tells their story. I can’t even.
I might have to stop watching. All the tears!
Fortunately, these cookie cups are not tear inducing. Unless you cry when a dessert is just that good. It’s totally possible.
These cookie cups are a moist and chewy chocolate cookie cup that’s filled with a no bake strawberry cheesecake. It’s a yummy flavor combo that makes me think of chocolate covered strawberries and is perfect for Valentine’s day.
Cookie cups really are quite easy to make. Just make the cookie dough and bake it in a cupcake pan. I make balls of about 2 tablespoons of cookie dough each and press them into the greased pan. I spread them up the sides of the cups a bit too. They’ll puff up a little when they bake, but I use the underside of a measuring tablespoon to press down a nice lithe dome into the cookie to form a nice cup when they come out of the oven.
The cheesecake is of course no bake. It’s just a matter of mixing a few basic ingredients together and piping them into the cooled cookie up. Easy peasy.
Top these babies with a strawberry and you’ve got quite the presentation. And hey, it’s fresh fruit on top which totally makes these a healthy treat, right? 😉
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Strawberry Cheesecake Chocolate Cookie Cups
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 25 minutes
- Yield: 16-18 Cookie Cups
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
Description
These Strawberry Cheesecake Chocolate Cookie Cups are super fun, easy to make and beautiful! They’re great for sharing or enjoying as an individual treat.
Ingredients
COOKIE CUP
- 1 1/4 cups (163g) all purpose flour
- 1/2 cup (57g) natural unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 2 tsp cornstarch
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 3/4 cup (168g) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 cup (207g) sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
CHEESECAKE FILLING
- 12 oz (339g) cream cheese, room temperature
- 2 1/4 cups (259g) powdered sugar
- 5 tbsp strawberry puree
Instructions
- Coat cupcake pan with non stick cooking spray. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Combine the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, cornstarch and salt in a medium sized bowl and set aside.
- Cream the butter and sugar together for 2-3 minutes, until light and fluffy.
- Add the egg and vanilla extract and beat until well combined.
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix until well combined. Dough will be thick.
- Makes balls of about 2 tbsp of dough. Press cookie dough in bottom and about 1/3-1/2 way up the sides of each cupcake cup, forming a cup shape.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool for about 5 minutes, then remove to cooling rack to finish cooling. The centers should fall a bit while cooling, but if the centers aren’t cupped enough to add filling, use the underside of a measuring tablespoon to press the center down a bit.
- Once cookie have cooled, make the cheesecake filling. Combine the cream cheese, powdered sugar. Add the strawberry puree a tablespoon at a time until you have the right consistency and flavor, mixing until smooth between each addition.
- Pipe the cheesecake filling into the cookie cups and top with a fresh strawberry. Cookie cups should be refrigerated until served.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 Cookie Cup
- Calories: 323
- Sugar: 38.2 g
- Sodium: 135.6 mg
- Fat: 14.9 g
- Carbohydrates: 47 g
- Protein: 3 g
- Cholesterol: 49.8 mg
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Enjoy!
How do you get the strawberry puree?
Just pop some strawberries in a food processor and puree until smooth.
These look great and I will be making them for Valentine’s Day! Did you use salted or unsalted butter?
Awesome! I used salted butter.
strawberry + cream cheese + chocolate = all of my favorite <3 Thanks for sharing! Gotta try this recipe at home.
Do all of these cookie cup recipes use a standard cupcake pan or the mini cupcake pan?
Unless otherwise stated, they use regular cupcake pans.
Do you make the strawberry free from scratch, or can it be purchased? These look wonderful and I would love to make them very soon!! Thank you 🙂
Yes, from scratch. I just pop them in a small food processor.
Thank you! Sorry for my typos 🙂
These look delicious! i will have to try it soon!
can you please let me know what kind of baking form did you use for it ? a picture or a link would be great
I’m actually in the middle making these and there no way to roll my dough into a ball. it is thick but too wet or something. Help!
“Strawberry Brownie Cheesecake” is the best strawberry cake i ever eat. Thanks you
How can you make the frosting not grainy?
I didn’t have a problem with it being grainy. It should be very smooth.
If it’s grainy you haven’t mixed the frosting enough. Just keep on mixing 😉
How cute are these little cookie cups! Strawberry cheesecake filling sounds like something I could eat by the spoonful. I’m with you on AI, though! I stopped watching for a bit, but there have been some pretty talented people so far. Might have to keep watching!
oooh this sounds incredible! i will have to try it soon! thanks for sharing! 🙂
These are so darling! I love little bite sized treats like this!
I haven’t seen American Idol for year! These look yummy and festive!
These cookie cups are so pretty! Love the strawberry cheesecake filling! I would be one happy lady if I got these for Valentine’s!
I stopped watching Idol after the J. Lo years began (not because of her, just because I was tired of it), but now maybe I have to start again! I got into the Voice, too, but it’s been a while for that as well. Time to go back to Ryan Seacrest!
These look great, Lindsay!