Easy Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Bars

An easy cream cheese filling sandwiched between two layers of chocolate chip cookie dough makes the BEST Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Bars.

Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars Recipe

Chocolate chip cookies with a cream cheese filling is the ultimate combination for easy dessert bars. These Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars couldn’t be easier to make. The soft and gooey cream cheese filling is irresistible in these cheesecake bars!

We have a super popular recipe on Pinterest – Churro Cheesecake Recipe – that substitutes the cookie dough for crescent roll dough. Wherever I take this recipe the dish is always empty, so I knew using refrigerated cookie dough would be just as good or better!

Thinking of our Farmhouse Chocolate Chip Cookies, I couldn’t wait to bite into these. The first time I made them I ate a warm piece and was surprised to find these cookie dough cheesecake bars taste better chilled. That means they taste better made ahead of time!

It’s nice to have easy make-ahead desserts like these, our Black Bottom Cupcakes that also taste best served chilled, Cheesecake Cookie Bars and Blackberry Jam Cake as options to make the day before and take to family meals, parties or holidays.

This recipe also makes me crave our other recipes with chocolate chips like Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies, Chocolate Yum Yum, and Chocolate and Peanut Butter Bar Cookies.

Tips for Making Cheesecake Cookie Bars

• A 30-ounce family size roll of cookie dough can be split in half to fill a 9 x 13-inch pan, a smaller 16-ounce roll will work in an 8 x 8 square pan
• We like to buy refrigerator cookie dough, but frozen dough can be used too
• Be sure cream cheese is softened well before mixing up this recipe
• Cookie dough is easier to press and shape when chilled compared to using room temperature dough

What’s Needed to Make Cheesecake Cookie Bars

• Chocolate chip cookie dough
• Cream cheese
• Sugar
• Eggs
• Vanilla

How to Make Cookie Dough Cheesecake

Lightly grease a 9 x 13 inch baking pan and preheat the oven to 350° F. Prepare ingredients, there are eggs in the recipe, but I forgot to include them in the picture below.

A family size roll of cookie dough is about 30 ounces and regular rolls are about 16 ounces.  We cut the portion of dough were working with in half and continue cutting each piece in half until we have an amount that will fit evenly in the baking dish.  I start to press the dough out in my hands then lay in the bottom of the pan and finish pressing out to cover the bottom of the pan as best as I can. 

Using an electric mixer beat the softened cream cheese well.   

Then mix in sugar, eggs and vanilla. Scrape the bowl with a spatula and mix well again.

Use the same spatula to spread the delicious and creamy filling over top of the pressed layer of cookie dough.

Press out remaining cookie dough and spread as evenly as possible over the top of the cream cheese filling.

Bake at 350°F and check around the 30 – 35 minute range. If the cookie dough hasn’t fully baked it may need another 5 – 10 minutes to finish browning and baking.

These cookie dough dessert bars taste really good warm, but they taste AMAZING after being chilled.

Other Delicious Cookie Bar Recipes:

• Buckeye Cookie Bars
• M&M Oatmeal Cookie Bars
• 5 Ingredient Chocolate & Peanut Butter Bars
• Butterscotch Cookie Bars
• Pecan Pie Surprise Bars

Printable Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Bars Recipe