I decided to make up my own holiday:
Eat A Cookie Tuesday.
A holiday disguised as an excuse to eat more cookies is never a bad thing, right? And these absolutely irresistible cream cheese cookies are some of the softest, chewiest, lightest, and most delicious cookies ever to come out of my kitchen…
Yet they have just 40 calories… and less than 2 grams of fat each!
Try and stop at just one.
No seriously; try to stop at just one.
It isn’t possible.
A few weeks after first making the cookies, I got a text from a friend to whom I’d given the recipe. Apparently she’d brought a double batch into work, and one of her coworkers ate nine!
So this is what happens one day in February when when you find yourself with a container of cream cheese in the fridge, a bag of chocolate chips in the pantry, and a view through the window of weather so cold and rainy the thought of leaving your heated apartment—and your oversized flannel pajamas—never even crosses your mind.
Finally, a silver lining to miserable weather.
For more recipes: Over 50 Wholesomely Healthy Cookies Recipes
If you try them, be sure to post your pictures and tag me on facebook or instagram so I’ll be sure to see!
Chocolate Chip Cream Cheese Cookies
(makes 10-12)
Adapted from: Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies
- 1/3 cup plus 1/4 cup oat flour OR just process rolled oats in a blender until you get a fine flour (70g)
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 2-5 tbsp chocolate chips, as desired
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar or xylitol (46g)
- 3 tbsp full-fat cream cheese, such as Tofutti (45g)
- 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1 tbsp vegetable or melted coconut oil (12g)
Combine the first 5 ingredients in a deep bowl. In a cup, stir together the remaining 3 ingredients, gently heating if the cream cheese is too firm to stir. Pour wet into dry, then stir together and do not add extra liquid. It will look a bit dry, but keep stirring and scraping off the spoon as you stir. After a few minutes, it will moisten into a cookie dough batter. Form a big ball, then roll into cookie dough balls. Place balls on a plate and freeze at least 30 minutes (or up to a month). When ready to bake, preheat oven to 325 F and grease a cookie tray. Place balls on the tray, press down if desired, and bake 8 minutes—they will look quite underdone when they first come out, so do not even touch them for at least 10 minutes, during which time they will firm up.
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Just made these and they were SO good! I must make more because all of family keep eating them! Another lovely recipe 🙂 x
Hi Katie,
Thank you for all your hard work developing these recipes! I made the cream cheese cookies this morning, but sadly, mine don’t look anything like your’s :(. They came out of the oven looking exactly like they did going in. They didn’t puff up or melt into the cookies shape, like your’s. I did weigh my measurements too, however the only thing I didn’t weigh was the Tbsp of oil. Do you have any thoughts on what I did wrong?
Thanks again for all your recipes!!
Mine came out like that too! Just little cookie balls. I wonder if I’m supposed to press them down before baking? I used full fat dairy cream cheese and xylitol. Did yours still taste good?
Yes, they tasted great! I used the full fast cream cheese and part Splenda, part sugar. They really taste good, kind of like eating cookie dough ;). But I really would like to have mine look like Katie’s, LOL!
If you used part splenda, then you didn’t follow the recipe: https://lett-trim.today/faq-page/recipe-questions-and-troubleshooting/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
Ok, I guess I didn’t realize that ingredient would make the difference. Somewhere, I got the impression it was sweetener of choice, but I must have confused that with a different recipe.
Mine looked like puffy pillows when I took them out. So I gently pressed down with a spoon, and then they looked pretty much exactly like Katie’s. They are SO good!
Mine did that too! I haven’t tried them yet but they look like the raw energy ball thingies instead of like Katie’s cookies. Hmmm.. I used everything exactly as she said!
Read the recipe again. It says right in the directions to smush them down before baking if you want them to not be balls.
I wasn’t talking about the shape I was talking about the color. Mine were not golden, they were brown! Lol. They tasted amazing so I guess that’s all that matters. Maybe it was the stevia? I don’t know. But it’s a keeper recipe for sure.
Wait, where in the recipe does it call for stevia?
WHY are all these people commenting that the recipe didn’t turn out when they DIDN’T FOLLOW THE RECIPE without saying they didn’t follow the recipe in their initial comment? That’s really not helpful to readers who are reading the comments wanting to get feedback of the recipe.
Grrrrrrrr.
LOL!! Sorry to have ruffled your feathers SO much. Wow. Oh M, calm yourself. 🙂
BTW I just used stevia in place of regular granulated sugar. Didn’t realize it would change the look of the cookie so much! Either way, I’ll still be making these. I like them better than the chocolate chip cookies in her book but those are great as well! Katie’s recipes are a lifesaver!!! 😀
Did you heat the cream cheese up before adding it? Because I did and it melted the chocolate chips a little bit leading to a brown color.
These are SO FREAKIN GOOD!
I’ve made two batches now, one for work and one all for me! Thank you, thank you, thank you for creating these little cookies of paradise and sharing them with us. I have not made a recipe yet from your site that hadng been a success all around. 🙂
I think Eat a Cookie Tuesday should become an official holiday!
Help! #$%^&*()
I can’t stop eating these! Is there such a thing as a cookie that is *too* good?!?
Just took them out of the oven. Delicious! Thanks for the recipe, it is a keeper!
I brought these into work about an hour ago, it is not even 8 am and they are already gone. True story. I don’t know if that means these cookies are awesome or we are pigs or maybe both! But I thought you’d get a kick out of this. 🙂
Thanks for the recipe!
These are absolutely amazing! I don’t think I will make regular old chocolate chip cookies for my family ever again. Thank you for the recipe!
These are like puffy pillows. They are SO good!
These cookies are boyfriend approved! He had no idea they were low calorie and made with spelt flour! He just kept eating them, even after I told him! Thanks Katie for making me look good in the kitchen!
I just learned that the cookies are all gone and boyfriend is requesting more! 😉