Chocolate Chip Cream Cheese Cookie Bars
The perfect soft & chewy cookie recipe that can feed big crowds at your next potluck, block party or family reunion.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Total Time: 25 minutes
- Yield: around 40 cookie bars 1x
Ingredients
Scale
- ¾ cup Butter, softened
- 3 ounces Cream Cheese, softened
- 1½ cups packed Light Brown Sugar
- ½ cup Granulated Sugar
- 2 Large Eggs
- 3 teaspoon Vanilla
- 3½ cups All-Purpose Flour
- 3 teaspoon Cornstarch
- 1½ teaspoon Baking Soda
- ½ teapsoon course Sea Salt or ¾ tsp Regular Salt
- 2 cups Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
- 1–2 cups M&Ms
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Spray a large cookie sheet 15”x11” with cooking spray and set aside.
- With your mixer, cream together the butter, softened cream cheese, brown sugar and granulated sugar for 1-2 minutes.
- Add wet ingredients; eggs and vanilla, continue mixing for 3 minutes or until mixture is very light and fluffy. Scrape sides down halfway through mixing.
- Add dry ingredients now; flour, corn starch, baking soda, and salt and mix until well combined. Add chocolate chips and m&ms (only if you choose) and mix or stir until combined.
- Scoop mixture out evenly over baking sheet. I like to press the cookie mixture down evenly with my hand. *A good trick to do is grease your hand with cooking spray or even my hands are a little damp with water works as well.*
- Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes. You don’t want it cooking for too long because you still want the cookies to be soft and chewy.
- Remove cookie sheet from oven and allow to cool completely. *I always will put them in the fridge to cool faster because I usually have kids running around asking 100 times if they can have one*
- Enjoy!
Notes
recipe adapted by Real Life Dinner