Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cheesecake

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By: Jill Mills Posted: Feb 23, 2020 Updated: Nov 6, 2023

If you love cheesecake, this is a recipe you have to save. This Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cheesecake is one of the most decadent desserts I have ever made. With everything that makes a dessert amazing all together in one cheesecake, you have to save this recipe.

If you can not get enough cheesecake and cookie combinations, you have to try Cheesecake Cookie Bars.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cheesecake

You are going to be blown away by how absolutely delicious this cheesecake is.  It has a chocolate chip cookie crust, topped with a rich chocolate ganache glaze, chocolate chips, and edible chocolate chip cookie dough balls.  It is such a decadent dessert it will remind you of something you get on a date night dinner.  Make sure this one goes in your favorites.

Ingredients You Will Need:

• Prepared chocolate chip cookie dough
• Cream cheese
• Sugar
• Eggs
• Vanilla
• Powdered sugar
• Heavy cream
• Flour
• Lemon juice
• Chocolate almond bark
• Milk chocolate chips
• Flour
• Salt
• Butter
• Brown sugar
• Mini milk chocolate chips

How to Make a Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cheesecake

• Prepare the 9 inch springform pan with parchment paper.
• Remove the premade chocolate chip cookie dough and place it on the bottom of the pan evenly, forming the crust.
• Bake the crust for 12-16 minutes until it is golden brown.
• Take the pan out of the oven and let it cool on a wire rack.

How to Make the Cheesecake

• In a medium bowl, using a mixer, beat the cream cheese, heavy cream, vanilla, and lemon juice.
• Mix on low until the cream cheese is smooth and creamy. Be sure to scrape down the sides of the bowl.
• Add the sugar, flour, and powdered sugar, and mix until completely mixed.
• Add the eggs and blend on low just until mixed together.
• Then mix on medium high until the cheesecake batter is creamy and smooth.
• Using two large pieces of foil, lay one on top of the other and place the spring-form pan in the center of the foil.
• Bring the foil up the sides of the pan and wrap it securely.
• Pour the batter into the spring-form pan.
• Bake the cheesecake at 425 degrees for 15 minutes and then turn the oven down to 350, and bake the cheesecake for 1 hour, or until the center is barely jiggly when the pan is moved.

• When the cheesecake starts to brown on top, make a foil tent over the top to prevent the cheesecake from burning.
• Make the tent by tearing off an extra-large piece of foil and fold it in half  lengthwise. Place it over the spring-form pan, just to cover the top. Allow the heat to bake the cheesecake.
• Let the cheesecake sit overnight in the refrigerator.

Making the Ganache

• Melt the Chocolate Almond bark, chocolate chips, and heavy cream in a heavy saucepan over low heat. Be sure to stir constantly, until the chocolate is completely melted, looks smooth and glassy, and not grainy.
• While you’re melting the chocolate if it gets too thick, add a little more cream, and keep stirring until it is thin, smooth, and glassy.

• Remove the cheesecake from the refrigerator, and set it on a wire rack with parchment paper underneath it.
• Remove the cheesecake from the pan by removing the sides.
• Pour the chocolate ganache over the top of the cheesecake.  It’s ok for the chocolate to run over the sides and onto the parchment. The chocolate will set and be easy to clean up.

• When the ganache begins to thicken, and is almost hard, place the Milk Chocolate Chips on the top of the ganache.
• Place the parchment and foil back over the cheesecake, and set it back in the refrigerator.

How to Make the Edible Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Balls

• Place the flour in a microwave safe bowl and microwave it for 2 minutes, stopping at 15 second intervals, and stirring the flour well.
• Remove from the microwave and add salt, and stir well.  Set aside.
• In the mixing bowl, using a mixer, cream the butter, sugar, brown sugar and vanilla, until light and fluffy.
• Add the heavy cream, and beat until it is smooth and creamy.
• Add the flour mixture and mix until all ingredients are well blended.
• Scrape down the sides of the bowl
• Fold the chocolate chips into the cookie dough then place it in the refrigerator to chill for 2 hours.
• After the dough is chilled, remove from the refrigerator, and roll into small balls, about2 inches, and place on a parchment paper lined cookie sheet.
• Chill the cookie dough balls until it is time to serve the cheesecake.
• When you’re ready to serve the cheesecake, place the cheesecake on a large cake plate.  Place the edible cookie dough balls on top of the cheesecake
• Cut the cheesecake with a sharp serrated knife into 2 inch pieces, serve, and Enjoy!

When is The Cheesecake Done?

When you are making a cheesecake you want to bake it until it is done but you never want to over bake a cheesecake. To tell if the cheesecake is done first gently move the pan back and forth. If the middle of the cheesecake jiggles like a thick liquid, you want to bake it for another 15 minutes.

When it is a little jiggly, this is the right consistency, and you want to move it from the oven. It will continue to firm as it cools.

Let the cheesecake cool completely and then move it to the refrigerator for at least 12 hours.

If the cheesecake falls in the middle that is ok, because you will be adding the chocolate ganache over it and no one will be able to see that it fell.

Does This Use Packaged Cookie Dough?

This recipe uses packaged cookie dough for the crust of the cheesecake. I like using Pillsbury cookie dough but you can use whatever brand you like. You can also make our homemade chocolate chip cookie recipe to use instead of the premade. You can also try using different flavors of cookie dough like peanut butter, snickerdoodle, or whatever flavors you like.

More Cookie Dough Recipes

• Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Truffles
• Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Fudge
• Edible Eggless Cookie Dough
• Instant Pot Cookie Dough Cheesecake

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Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cheesecake

If you love cheesecake, this is a recipe you have to save. This Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cheesecake is one of the most decadent desserts I have ever made.

Servings: 12

Prep: 30 minutes mins

Cook: 1 hour hr 15 minutes mins

Total: 1 hour hr 45 minutes mins

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Ingredients

  

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• ▢ Already prepared chocolate chip cookie dough – for the crust
• ▢ 5 packages cream cheese 8 ounces each
• ▢ 1 cup sugar
• ▢ 4 eggs
• ▢ 2 Tablespoons Vanilla
• ▢ 1/2 cup Powdered sugar
• ▢ 1/3 cup Heavy cream
• ▢ 2 Tablespoons Flour
• ▢ 1 teaspoon lemon juice

FOR THE CHOCOLATE GANACHE:

• ▢ 8 ounces chocolate almond bark
• ▢ 8 ounces Milk chocolate chips
• ▢ 1/2 cup heavy cream

TO TOP:

• ▢ Milk chocolate chips

EDIBLE COOKIE DOUGH:

• ▢ 3 cups flour
• ▢ 1 teaspoon salt
• ▢ 2 sticks butter
• ▢ 1 cup sugar
• ▢ 1 cup brown sugar
• ▢ 2 teaspoons vanilla
• ▢ 1/2 cup heavy cream
• ▢ 1 cup mini milk chocolate chips

Instructions

• First, line a 9 inch Spring-form pan with parchment paper.
• Remove the chocolate chip cookie dough from the package and place it in the spring-form pan on top of the parchment paper, and press it evenly into the pan, forming the crust.
• Place the pan in the oven at 350 degrees for 12 – 16 minutes, or until the crust is golden brown.
• Remove the crust from the oven to a wire rack and let cool. In the mixing bowl of a stand mixer, place the 5 packages of softened cream cheese, heavy cream, vanilla, and lemon juice.
• Mix on low until the cream cheese is smooth and creamy, scraping down the sides of the mixing bowl while blending the cream cheese.
• Add the sugar, flour, and powdered sugar, and mix until completely blended.
• Add the eggs all at once, and blend on low just until mixed together, then turn the mixer up on medium high until the cheesecake batter is smooth, creamy and well blended.
• Tear off two large pieces of foil, lying one on top of the other on the counter, place the spring-form pan in the center of the foil. Bring the foil up the sides of the pan, wrapping it securely.
• Pour the cheesecake batter into the spring-form pan, and place it in the oven at 425 degrees for 15 minutes, then turn the oven down to 350, and bake the cheesecake for 1 hour, or until the center is barely jiggly when the pan is moved.
• When the cheesecake starts to brown on top, make a foil tent over the top to prevent burning.
• Just tear off an extra large piece of foil, fold it in half – by length, and then place it over the Spring-form pan, to cover the top, but still allow the heat to bake the cheesecake.

HOW TO TELL IF THE CHEESECAKE IS DONE:

• Gently move the pan back and forth, and if the middle of the cheesecake jiggles like thick liquid, leave it about another 15 minutes.
• Go back and check again; if it’s just a little jiggly, that’s what you want.
• It will finish setting up in the refrigerator, overnight. Go ahead and take the cheesecake out of the oven, and place it on a wire rack to cool.
• When it’s cooled to room temperature, wrap it in parchment paper, and then in foil, tightly and place it in the refrigerator for at least 12 hours.
• If the cheesecake fell in the middle, don’t worry about that, because you’re going to glaze the whole top with a heavy chocolate ganache, and toppings and no one will ever know.
• After the cheesecake has set overnight – or for at least 12 hours, make the ganache;
• Melt the Chocolate Almond bark, chocolate chips, and heavy cream in a heavy sauce pan on low heat, stirring constantly, until the chocolate is completely melted, looks smooth and glassy, and not grainy.
• While you’re melting the chocolate, if it thickens, just add a little more cream, and keep stirring until it thins, smooths, and looks glassy, or shiny, almost mirror-like.
• Don’t be afraid of adding more cream, just add small amounts until the chocolate is smooth and shiny.
• Remove the cheesecake from the refrigerator, and set it on a wire rack with parchment paper underneath it.
• Remove the spring form from the pan, and pour the chocolate ganache over the top of the cheesecake.
• It will run over the sides, and down onto the parchment paper.
• That’s okay, just let it sit there until the chocolate begins to set up, between 30 minutes to an hour.
• When it begins to thicken, and is almost hard, place the Milk Chocolate Chips on the top of the ganache.
• Place the parchment and foil back over the cheesecake, and set it back in the refrigerator.

Make the edible chocolate chip cookie dough balls:

• Place the flour in a microwave safe bowl, and microwave for 2 minutes on high, stopping at 15 second intervals, and stirring the flour well.
• Remove from the microwave, add salt, and stir well.
• Set aside.
• In the mixing bowl of a stand mixer, mix the butter, sugar, brown sugar and vanilla, until light and fluffy.
• Add the heavy cream, and blend until smooth and creamy.
• Add the flour mixture, and mix until all ingredients are well blended.
• Scrape down the sides of the bowl, and remove the bowl from the mixer.
• Add the chocolate chips, and fold into the cookie dough.
• Place the dough in the refrigerator for 2 hours to chill.
• After the dough is chilled, remove from the refrigerator, and roll into small balls, about 2 inches, and place on a parchment paper lined cookie sheet, and refrigerate until time to serve the cheesecake.
• When you’re ready to serve the cheesecake, place the cheesecake on a large cake plate.
• Place the edible cookie dough balls on top of the cheesecake.
• Cut the cheesecake with a sharp serrated knife into 2 inch pieces, serve, and Enjoy!

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Notes

NOTE: I used Pillsbury chocolate chip cookie dough for the crust, but you can use any prepared dough you prefer, or you can make your own cookie dough. I found this worked well, and made the cheesecake really delicious. I used about 3/4 of the large log of dough, but you can use the whole log of dough, or just half, depending on how thick you want the crust. You can also use Nestle’s Toll House dough as well. It comes in a tub, so just scoop out as much as you’d like for the crust. Just make sure you line your Spring-form pan with parchment paper so the dough doesn’t stick, or burn, and bakes evenly.

ALSO: DO NOT SKIP the step where you cook the flour in the microwave for the Edible cookie dough. Some flours have been known to carry traces of Salmonella, so do cook the flour to prevent any bacteria in the Edible cookie dough. The flour will be hot when you take it out of the microwave, so do be careful when stirring.

Nutrition

Calories: 830kcal | Carbohydrates: 112g | Protein: 14g | Fat: 70g | Saturated Fat: 42g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 17g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 223mg | Sodium: 661mg | Potassium: 294mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 82g | Vitamin A: 2246IU | Vitamin C: 0.4mg | Calcium: 169mg | Iron: 3mg

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