cheesecake cookies

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cheesecake cookies

Just the thought of a picnic has me wishing that my favorites will be there when we lay out the blanket. One favorite I’d like to see on a picnic is cheesecake. I really love cheesecake! To make it a bit easier to pack I had an idea to make cheese COOKIES, and I love when ideas like this turn out GREAT, like these did. Earth day is April 22. These will be perfect for Picnic for the Planet.

Celebrate Earth Day and Picnic for the Planet, pack of your favorite items, grab your friends and family and head on out on an adventure to enjoy all the Earth has to offer.

 

These cookies are cake-like cookies, soft and bake up a bit fluffy. The cheesecake icing and graham cracker crumbs are just the perfect addition to these.

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cheesecake cookies

cheesecake cookies with cheesecake icing and graham cracker crumbs
Author: Diane Schmidt - createdbydiane.com

Ingredients

  • 8 oz cream cheese room temperature
  • 1/2 cup butter room temperature
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 6 drops cheesecake flavor Loranns
  • 2 1/2 cups flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • Icing:
  • 1/2 cup butter room temperature
  • 2 oz cream cheese room temperature
  • 2 cups powdered sugar
  • 3 tablespoons milk
  • 2 drops cheese cake flavor
  • 1/2 cup graham cracker crumbs

Instructions

  • Beat cream cheese and butter, then add sugar and mix until smooth.
  • Add eggs one at a time until incorporated.
  • Mix in vanilla and cheesecake flavor.
  • Add the flour, baking powder and salt to the butter mixture and combine until blended well.
  • Roll out on floured surface and cut with cookie cutter into desired shape, I rolled these out to 1/4 inch
  • Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes.
  • Icing:
  • Beat butter and cream cheese, add in sugar, milk and flavor.
  • Pipe on completely cooled cookies and then press the frosted side into a dish of graham cracker crumbs so they stick to the icing. Refrigerate so the icing stays firm.

Are you ready to go for a picnic?

 

Cheesecake Cookies @createdbydiane

 

 

 Picnic for the Planet is a celebration of the planet we live on, the food it provides and the people we share it with. In short, the planet does a lot for us — we should take it out for lunch! 

 

 

156 Comments

  2. I know this is silly, but as a child my mom must have taken us on hundreds of picnics and she always packed a small bag of sugar. We would picnic on a hill behind my parents house, pick wild flowers, play in the trees and when it was over we would take the bag of sugar to the ant hill and feed the ants. The ant hill is still there and now I take my children with a bag of sugar to feed the ants. That is a picnic to me.

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  4. I promised my daughter that we would have a picnic on Memorial Day weekend, and since the closest she’s ever come to a real picnic is when we have strawberry picnics on the living room floor, I’d say I’ll have to bring some strawberries to our picnic.

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  5. I love to bring a kite, my handsome fiance, and a wonderful bottle of summer dessert wine to my favorite nature centers and to just sit back, lay in the grass, and watch the clouds go by!

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  6. I visited the Nature Conservancy website, and saw that there’s a picnic on Boston Common. That might be fun to go to, or perhaps my husband and I will take a hike in the woods near my house.

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  7. I love bringing pasta salad to a picnic – whole wheat pasta, and LOTS of roasted or grilled veggies… filling, delicious, and nutritious.

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