Blueberry Cheesecake Pizookie
A warm, soft, and deliciously doughy graham-flavored cookie brimming with melty white chocolate chips, pockets of blueberry jam and cream cheese filling!
Ingredients
Cream Cheese Filling:
- 2 Tablespoons cream cheese softened
- 1 Tablespoon unsalted butter softened
- Pinch of salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- ¾ cup powdered sugar
Graham Cookie Dough:
- ½ cup unsalted butter softened to room temp.
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- ½ cup crushed graham cracker crumbs (about 3.25 whole crackers)
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- ¾ cup white chocolate chips
For Assembly:
- 3 Tablespoons Blueberry jam
Instructions
Make the Cream Cheese Filling:
- Place the cream cheese, butter, and salt in a medium bowl. Using a hand beater (or wooden spoon), beat the ingredients together until creamy, about 1 minute. Add the vanilla, followed by the powdered sugar, mixing until combined.
- Spoon teaspoon-sized dollops of the filling onto a wax paper-lined plate. Freeze for at least 30 minutes.
Make the Cookie Dough:
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. In the bowl of a stand mixer, fitted with paddle attachment, beat the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add the egg and vanilla, and continue mixing until smooth, scraping down the sides of the bowl as necessary.
- Add the flour, graham cracker crumbs, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon, and mix on medium-low speed until just combined. Dough should look crumbly. Stir in the chocolate chips.
To Assemble:
- Press half of the cookie dough into a 10-inch greased skillet. Place the frozen cream cheese filling dollops evenly over the dough. Drop teaspoonfuls of the blueberry jam in between the areas surrounding the cream cheese filling dollops. Cover with the remaining dough by pressing portions of dough between your palms, then piecing them together on top. Make sure all of the cream cheese filling and jam are covered.
- Bake for 25-27 minutes, or until the edges are set and the center looks glossy and not quite done. Pizookie will continue to bake as it cools.
- Wait at least 25 minutes before slicing into the pizookie.*
- Slice pizookie into wedges and serve warm with ice cream!
Notes
*You can either wait 25 minutes to slice into it, if you want more of a "waterfall effect" from the cream cheese filling. Or, you can wait 45 minutes, if you prefer thick pockets of cream cheese. It's totally up to you!