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Aug
19

Cheesecake Cookies

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Cheesecake! In handy, portable, splendidly delicious bites!

Go ahead, bake some up today. I know you want to.

How to make Cheesecake Cookies:

3/4 cup butter, softened
3 ounces cream cheese, softened
3/4 cup sugar
4 teaspoons lemon peel, shredded
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/3 cup finely chopped pecans
1/3 cup crushed graham crackers

In a medium-size mixing bowl, beat butter and cream cheese. Add sugar, lemon peel, lemon juice, and vanilla; beat again.
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Mix in flour with a spoon. (This is such an easy recipe!) Refrigerate cookie dough for 30 minutes to make it easier to work with.

Prepare pecans and graham crackers. I like to crush stuff with my pretty hammer inside a plastic baggie.
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Spread half of the pecan/graham cracker mixture on a piece of wax paper. Lay out half the chilled dough on top of it.
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Shape and roll cookie log, coating in crushed nut-crumb mixture.
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Repeat with second half of dough. Transfer rolled, coated logs to fresh sheets of waxed paper and wrap.
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I use extra-long pieces of waxed paper and just twist the ends to seal.
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Chill for about two hours in the fridge, or about 30 minutes in the freezer then slice into lovely little cheesecake rounds.
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(You can eat one now if you want.)

Place cookies on lightly greased cookie sheets. Bake at 375-degrees for 8-10 minutes. You only want to barely brown the bottoms. Don’t overbake.
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Now you can eat them all.

*Makes about 4 dozen.


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Posted by Suzanne McMinn on August 19, 2009  

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  1. 8-19
    4:20
    am

    :hungry: yummy !!

  2. 8-19
    4:28
    am

    Those look absolutely, fantastically delicious and I LOVE cheesecake and pecans! When I lose this last 10 lbs I am going to make these as a reward. Ok, off for my jog now…

  3. 8-19
    4:48
    am

    Oh, delicious decadence. Those are some beauties. You just had to do that didn’t you?

  4. 8-19
    5:14
    am

    Not fair. I love cheese cake. And these cookies look yummy. Thank goodness it is too hot to back or I would have a batch in the oven. No A/C at my house. The oven will not be turned on until the humity goes away around here.

    But I will try these in the very near future. lol.

  5. 8-19
    7:05
    am

    Oh yummy!!! :hungry2:

  6. 8-19
    7:22
    am

    Oh my…they are calling to me :sheepjump:

  7. 8-19
    7:30
    am

    Cheesecake and cookies are my absolute faves! To have them combined together is soooo…. evilly fantastic. A must try.

  8. 8-19
    7:40
    am

    I’m maken some!

  9. 8-19
    8:14
    am

    wow, wee, they look good, gotta try ‘em

  10. 8-19
    8:25
    am

    I think I will make these the next time I bake, they look so delicious. I don’t want to have too many baked goods sitting around here. I baked a yummy carrot cake the other day.

  11. 8-19
    9:13
    am

    Suzanne, How do I change my avatar to my own picture?

  12. 8-19
    9:21
    am

    Go here: http://en.gravatar.com/

    It’s real easy and it will even resize your photo for you!

    • 8-19
      11:56
      am

      Thank you! Now you can see me in my favorite color. I had to crop it out, but I’m sitting on my cousin’s motorcycle :heart: . I follow you on twitter, I just use queenymom there for my sign on.

  13. 8-19
    9:43
    am

    Good gracious, those look good. I don’t know if I could hold back and not eat every last crumb. I would hide in the pantry and eat these so no one else could have any. Away temptation!

  14. 8-19
    10:17
    am

    “Drool”. That’s all I can say. :eating:

  15. 8-19
    10:59
    am

    Suzanne–I wowed my friends with that corn (with zucchini) pudding from a couple of weeks ago. In fact, I bought super sweet corn at the farmers’ market this morning and have already blanched, cut and frozen it so we can have summer corn pudding for Christmas dinner. Now on to the cheesecake cookies. . .
    I am wondering about free-ranging your chickens. How do you protect them from those evil raccoons and other nefarious predators?
    Have a great day, and keep the good stuff coming . . .
    MJ

    • 8-19
      11:04
      am

      We haven’t had trouble with hawks or anything like that. Probably because we are surrounded by woods? I don’t know. At night, most of them go into the chicken house and shut in there. The older chickens stay out at night but they roost on gates of the pen attached to the goat yard and the other animals are there with them. I suspect that all helps keep them safe. A chicken sleeping with a donkey and three goats and a sheep probably doesn’t get bothered much, LOL.

      • 8-19
        11:18
        am

        Especially when the sheep thinks she’s a giant puppy, er, guard dog? :lol:

  16. 8-19
    12:04
    pm

    Ok, if I make those I can expect the whole neighborhood over!! My daughter loves cheesecake too, but she will be mad at me if I make them this week since she won’t be around…..hmmm maybe more for me! Have not been on your blog in a while since summertime keeps me pretty busy, but I will check back again.

  17. 8-19
    12:10
    pm

    I’m making these right now! I can’t wait to eat them. Hopefully there will be some left for company tonight!

  18. 8-19
    6:42
    pm

    omg!!! those look beyond amazing. I love your site–my daughter is nuts about your chicken pictures. She has two pet chickens and she just loves them like crazy. :chicken:

  19. 8-19
    8:05
    pm

    Oh My Goodness!! I’ve got to try these babies!!
    This is my first time to leave you a comment, BUT not my first time here. I’ve spent several days reading your posts straight thru….I just love your blog (it’s bookmarked!)
    Now I have to say that I made your Grandmother Bread on Monday, and according to my boys, I am going to have to make it again and again and again!! Such an easy recipe and I had great success with it even on my first try. I can’t wait to start experimenting with all of the different goodies I can make with the dough. Thank you so much for sharing your recipes!
    Keep up the great work!
    Kim in Texas

  20. 8-19
    8:05
    pm

    I do not like nuts.
    Do you think they would hold up if I just did the graham crackers only on the outside???

    They look so yummy!

  21. 8-19
    8:22
    pm

    Oh, my,hell.

    I’m sorry. If I don’t attempt this recipe within one or two days, I think I shall melt or implode or something. Why, WHY did you post this when I’m TOTALLY on plane with my healthy eating???

    ;)

    Solution: Read. Bake. Taste ONE. Provide rest to co-workers.

    *sigh*

  22. 8-19
    10:21
    pm

    Just printed this out and I’m going to make it tomorrow. Every recipe of yours I’ve tried has been amazing! Do you make them up? Love your blog by the way. Love it!!!!!

    • 8-20
      6:40
      am

      Hi, Mariah! Some recipes are mine that I make up, others are experimentations based on cookbook recipes or recipes people have shared with me.

  23. 8-20
    6:27
    am

    Those look yummy!!! I loved your refried beans so I know these will be good as well.

  24. 8-20
    11:56
    am

    I am SO going to make these for next work potluck and then call in HUGE favors in exchange for the recipe! :yes:

  25. 8-21
    2:32
    pm

    Wow, these look delicious!

  26. 8-22
    2:12
    pm

    Oh my! We are having a party today and my husband loves cheesecake so I made a batch of these. I normally don’t like cheesecake and have already had 2! They might not make it to our guests! :lol:

  27. 9-1
    3:21
    pm

    :sheepjump:
    Sounds delicious!!!! I am gonna try the cheesecake cookies receipe tomorrow!!!!

  28. 9-28
    5:13
    pm

    have to make these! your pics make it look good enough to eat off the screen!

  29. 10-9
    9:04
    am

    since there is cream cheese & these are cheesecake cookies, would you have to refrigerate them after baking? or can they be kept in a container like regular cookies?

    • 10-9
      9:06
      am

      You keep them like regular cookies. They don’t need to be refrigerated. (Same as there are eggs in cookies, but after they’re baked in the cookies, the cookies don’t need refrigeration.)

  30. 11-2
    6:51
    am

    OH MY GOSH!!!! I so want to go home and bake these, Suzanne!!! Beautiful cookies and who doesn’t love cheesecake?
    Thank you for sharing so generously all your lovely recipes. I’ve tried several and they are always great…well, I had a little issue making the Burnt Sugar sauce for the pear galette but I think that way more my fault than the recipe’s.
    Gonna bake these this weekend…wonder how they keep? (as if they would need to ‘keep’ at my house!) But for shipping to my family out of state, etc? Any ideas on that?
    Thanks, again, Suzanne. You are a peach!! Or a Cheesecake Cookie
    Carol

    • 11-2
      7:04
      am

      LOL, thank you, Carol! I don’t know how they keep. I’ve never had to keep them! They go quickly. You might try one of those vacuum-pack thingies for shipping to keep them fresh.

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