Brownie Cookies with a Cream Cheese Filling 🍪

May 29, 2022

My belovedbrownie cookies with a cream cheese filling– wonderfully chocolatey, with a super soft brownie texture, sandwiched with a fluffy cream cheese frosting. Every bite simply melts in your mouth!

These cookies have had my heart and my stomach for a while now, for a few very simple reasons:

they take very few ingredients (which, incidentally, you almost always have at home);
they are extremely easy and quick to make;
the taste never disappoints – you want more, and more, and MORE.

You can use any dark chocolate for these cookies; even 50% chocolate works beautifully. If you like a richer, more intense flavour, 72% dark chocolate is ideal. To avoid any trouble, use the butter, egg and cream cheese at room temperature.

P.S. Don't overbake them! Mine are always done in 15 minutes, and they are still quite soft when they come out of the oven. Baked longer they lose their brownie texture and you end up with ordinary cookies.

For lovers of chocolate cookies I would also recommend trying another of my recipes –Coffee Bean Cookies with Chocolate.

Brownie Cookies with a Cream Cheese Filling

Servings4

Ingredients

For the cookies

120 g dark chocolate
30 g butter
1 egg
90 g sugar
90 g flour
½ tsp baking powder

For the filling

100 g cream cheese
45 g butter
10 g icing sugar

Instructions

Melt the chocolate with the butter and leave it to cool a little.
Beat the egg with a mixer, adding the sugar a little at a time. Beat until the mixture pales, turns fluffy and no sugar granules remain.
Pour the cooled chocolate into the egg mixture and beat well with the mixer.
Add the flour sifted with the baking powder and mix very well. The mixture will be very thick and stiff, so use a spatula. Cover it and refrigerate for 15-20 minutes.
Divide the chilled mixture into 8 pieces of 45g each. Roll them into balls and bake on a tray lined with baking paper at 180°C for 15 minutes. The cookies should be fairly soft (brownie consistency); if you overbake them you will end up with ordinary chocolate cookies.
For the filling, beat the room-temperature butter until fluffy, add the room-temperature cream cheese and icing sugar, and beat to a smooth frosting.
Pipe the filling onto a cooled cookie and top with a second one. Enjoy!