These soft and chewy cream cheese cookies are filled with a creamy cheese danish filling and topped with a sweet vanilla glaze!
If a cheese danish and a cookie had a baby, they would produce these cheese danish cookies! These cookies are honestly life changing! I have no words to describe them but to tell you how ridiculously amazing they are. The cookies are lightly sweet, super soft and stay that way for days and the filling is the same as I used in all of my cheese danishes at home – it’s creamy, smooth and delicious! They are ahhhh-dicting. Think of them as little handheld cheese danishes.. in cookie form.
To make these cookies, you’ll prepare the dough and refrigerate it. It’s really soft and creamy thanks to the cream cheese in the dough that gives it such a nice flavor and the lemon juice also gives them something a little special. You’ll roll the chilled dough into 1″ balls and place them on a lined baking sheet. Make indentations in the tops of all of the cookies with your finger (I find that using my knuckle and wiggling it around works best!) or another round object and fill the wells with your cheese danish filling. To make life way easier, I like to scoop my filling into a ziplock bag and snip a corner off to pipe into each cookie. So much easier and much less to clean up afterwards! After the cookies are baked and cooled completely, they’ll get drizzled with a sweet vanilla glaze that really brings the whole thing together and gives them that traditional cheese danish flavor.
These cookies are super soft and chewy and stay that way for days and days. Even after four days they were still awesome! You wouldn’t expect that with a cookie like this. I just <3 them so much!
You can find the FULL recipe over at Dixie Crystals!
Whoa! I think my mind is totally blown right now. If I baked up a batch of these and served with them with a little dollop of cherry preserves, I think my husband would love me forever (well, he had better regardless, lol). 😉
Well, I love a cheese danish and I do love cookies, so, um, do you deliver?!? 😉 They sound fantabulous!
Whenever you can combine two desserts, you know it’s going to be amazing!
Dessert mash-ups are the best!
These are my kind of cookies! Soft, chewy and yummy! I can devour a batch of this in one sitting! 😉
Soft, chewy cookies are my weakness!! These sound amazing and such a clever idea!
You are a genius…cheese danish and a cookie?! I don’t know whether to have this for breakfast or dessert!
Whoa! Those look seriously delicious, and I’m also in awe of your photography skills, just lovely! My stepson recently found out that I’m an awesome baker, so now he expects homemade cookies every time he’s with us. These are going on next week’s menu for sure!
Oh, this is like bite size heaven!! I so have to make these, but I’ll have to be sure to hide them from my grandma. She’s a diabetic, but would go crazy over these! Okay, I’d share, but only a few.
These cookies look and sound absolutely delicious. I love cream cheese and cookies so what could be better than the two of them combined. I am pinning this so I can make these later. Thanks for sharing your recipe.
Cheese danishes are one of my husband’s favorites foods. He would love these! I will have to give these a shot.
Oh my goodness, these look so good! I love danishes, they are my favorite treat! I need to try this recipe- my husband is going to love them as well!
These look amazing and my mouth is watering right now. I think this would be the perfect treat for a late night movie date with my husband and lemon just happens to be one of my favorite.
These look and sound amazing! Gorgeous photos too! I will definitely have to try these!
This looks so delicious!! I have never though to add cheese to cookies but I guess it isn’t much different than a danish itself. Thanks for sharing such a great recipe!
Oh WOW! Cheese danish cookies, that’s brilliant. I don’t usually go for soft cookies, but I will definitely make an exception for this. Looks delicious.
I simply have to try these cookies..I am danish and have never heard about a cheese danish before so simply has to try them out..
Yesss, you must try!