Easy Oreo Cheesecake Cookies

One day, we were debating over the merits of what we wanted to go with our savory meal. One of us wanted to do some sort of cheesecake, and the other wanted to do something easier and less time-consuming like cookies. Like all great partnerships, during times of trouble, we decided to compromise and make some sort of cheesecake-cookie hybrid that wouldn't take up a lot of time and was low on ingredient cost. Hence, the choice to make oreo cheesecake cookies.

Ingredients: 

about 10-12 oreos 

1 cup chocolate chips (milk or dark)

3/4 cup butter (thawed)

1/3 cup cream cheese (thawed)

1 cup sugar

1 egg yolk

2 cups all-purpose flour

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp vanilla extract

Procedure:

1. Preheat the oven at 350F
2. Remove the white centre from the oreos and place the cookies in a ziplock bag. Crush them until semi-fine
3. Cream butter, sugar and cream cheese until all ingredients are combined.
4. Add the egg yolk, vanilla and salt
5. Slowly add the flour while mixing 
6. Then add the chocolate chips and oreos until all parts are evenly mixed
7. Line baking pans with parchment paper. Scoop and make 1-1.5 inch balls of the cookie dough to place on the baking pan. Press these with a spoon until they resemble mini-cookies (there is minimal expansion with these cookies).
8. If desired, create patterns on the top with a fork (i.e. something that looks like --> #)
9. Bake from 12-14 minutes or until the edges are golden. If you can't see the golden edges, you'll notice the batter becomes dry and the texture looks a bit cookie-like. This should be enough
10. Remove from the oven and let them cool .... 
11. Try not to go all cookie-monster on these yummy things. 

Oreo. cheesecake. cookies. Still warm from the oven and ready to melt in your mouth.