Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Bars

Tasty and Delicious

**all pictures were taken with my Canon Rebel T3**

Basically, I'm not a fan of junk food or chocolate, in general. However, I do love chocolate chip cookies and brownies. I started thinking to myself, wouldn't it be nice if the two were combined. 

And what do you know? I have a recipe where I can combine the two. 

Let's just take a moment and appreciate the wonderfulness of the concept of a "Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Brownie". 

It's absolutely delightful. 

I mean, chocolate chip and cheesecake? It makes my mouth water. 

All of my friends swear that this is the best "snack" that they've tasted. It's one of the only recipes that I know by heart. It's quick and simple. It would make a perfect dessert for any party. 

Ingredients that you'll need

1 large egg

2 packages of 16oz chocolate chip cookie dough

2 packages of 8oz cream cheese

Vanilla Extract

Granulated Sugar

Appliances that you'll need

1 mixing bowl

1 baking pan

1 mixing cup

1 tablespoon

1 mixer

Directions

You want to start by pre-heating your oven at 350 degrees.

Use your first package of cookie dough to cover the ungreased baking pan, forming a crust.

My tip is to use your hands, as it is the easiest. You could also use the back side of spoon to flatten it out in the pan. Once you have the pan covered, you need to place it in the oven and bake for 15 minutes. 

While that is baking, you can start mixing your vanilla extract, egg, sugar, and cream cheese.

You'll need 1/4 granulated sugar, and 1 tablespoon of vanilla extract.  You're going to mix well enough until it is at thick paste. 

Take the crust out of the oven and spread the cream cheese mixture over it. It will blend with the crust and that is perfectly fine! 

Once the cream cheese mixture is over the crust, you're going to crumble the other package of cookie dough on top of the cream cheese mixture. Make sure you have no sparse areas. 

It should look something like this when it is finished.

Finished product

It takes little time and is fairly easy. I've just made some last night, this is about the 20th time that I've made them and it gets easier every time. I hope you enjoy them :)

note: you don't have to use chocolate chip cookie dough, you can use what you like!