Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cheesecake

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Now you don’t have to choose between chocolate chip cookies and cheesecake. You can have them both at once with this decadent chocolate chip cookie dough cheesecake.

If you have a sweet tooth like I do, you are going to love the beauty.  It is loaded to the gills with chocolate chip cookie dough and the cheesecake texture is just right.

Plus it is pretty simple to make too. Get your springform pan ready, this is going to be good.

MiMi originally made this cheesecake for the blog back in 2016.  She shared the way she used to make it with either a graham cracker crumb crust or by baking some chocolate chip cookies and turning them into a crumb crust.

She also used a recipe that included sour cream, cream cheese, sugar and eggs.  It was delicious and a recipe that I request quite frequently during my high school years.

But I decided to revisit the recipe and switch it up a bit.  Instead of a crumb crust, I gave it a chocolate chip cookie crust.

I also changed the cheesecake batter itself.  I used Donna’s famous cheesecake recipe as a base instead.  These changes both made the cheesecake a little easier to make and the results were delicious.

I will warn you that you are going to need a 10″ springform pan for this recipe.  Anything smaller and you are going to have a mess on the bottom of your oven.

I suppose you might be able to get away with adding less cookie dough to the cheesecake and try it in a 9″ pan, but I say just go for it and use the bigger one. That way you cut your risk without cutting your reward.

Here is MiMi’s original post:

Boy oh boy did that fettuccine alfredo recipe bring back memories.  The subject of the special chocolate chip cookie dough cheesecake recipe came up.

For special dinners, Carlee often requested that I make the alfredo, a salad with Aunt Ellen’s Garlic Parmesan Dressing and this cheesecake.  Her friends enjoyed this before several formal dances too.

Evidently it has been a while since I last made it.  My piles of recipes have all been gone through and organized.  

I have 2 full recipe boxes that have been completely emptied and searched through.  Still, I could not find THE recipe.

I vaguely remembered it was an Olive Garden copycat but wasn’t sure.  Carlee, who was oblivious to the torment I was going through, emailed me the link to a recipe she thought may be it.  

She was wanting me to make it again too.  I just can’t surprise that girl.

Would you believe that after I gave up I went downstairs to my file cabinet to get some labels and found several file folders of old recipes?  I bet you could guess what I found in the last one!  

Luckily I found some others that I can’t wait to share as well.

Since I buy a big tub of  cookie dough for the dough balls in the cheesecake, I changed the recipe for the crust.  I love putting my own spin on recipes.  

There are just a few changes to the original copycat recipe. 

MiMi’s original chocolate chip cookie dough cheesecake recipe:

Ingredients:

• 2 T butter, melted
• 3 cups cookie crumbs (Oreos, chocolate chip, graham) I baked about 1 1/2 dozen cookies from the tub of chocolate chip cookie dough
• 32 oz cream cheese – softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 4 eggs
• 1 tsp all purpose flour
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1 tub refrigerated chocolate chip cookie dough
• 1/2 cup chocolate chips

1. Preheat oven to 325 F
2. For crust: Generously grease the bottom and sides of a 10 inch spring form pan. Combine the butter and cookie crumbs.  Press onto the bottom and sides of the pan.
3. For filling: use and electric mixer on high-speed to combine the cream cheese, sugar, eggs and flour.  Beat until smooth.  Add the vanilla and sour cream and mix just until blended.  Pour half of the batter into the prepared crust.  Scoop one pound of the cookie dough and form into golf ball size pieces.  Drop those into the batter. Sprinkle with chocolate chips. Pour remaining batter over that. 
4. Bake for 60 minutes.  Turn off the oven and leave the cake in the oven for 30 more minutes.
5. Let cool to room temperature then cover and refrigerate until ready to serve.
6. To serve, remove the sides of the pan and cut into pieces. 

Tips for making creamy cheesecakes:

Make sure your ingredients are at room temperature before you start. Cold cream cheese or eggs greatly increase your risk of having clumps of cream cheese in your batter.

Make sure to whip the cream cheese until it is super smooth before you add anything else. This is your best chance to get out any lumps. Be sure to scrape the sides of the bowl and the paddle multiple times as you go.

Drizzle in the sweetened condensed milk slowly and be sure it is mixed in well before you add more liquid.

Once you add the eggs, beat only until combined. You don’t want to whip in too much air. That increases your chances of cracks and bubbles.

Thanks for sharing!