Churro Cookies recipe

These delicious churro cream cheese cookies are crisp on the outside and moist and fluffy on the inside! The cinnamon-sugar topping gives this Churro Cookies recipe that signature churro flavor. In addition to being delicious, one of the best things about this churros cookies recipe is how quick they are to make! This recipe is a smaller batch as written, so it’s great when you just need a sweet snack, or a dessert for a specific meal. Of course if you want some extras for later, the recipe can be easily doubled. Keep reading to see step-by-step photos and cooking tips for making these churro cream cheese cookies, or click the Jump to Recipe button above to get straight to the recipe.

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What you need to make these churro cheesecake cookies

Here are the ingredients and tools you’ll need to make these yummy churro cream cheese cookies:

• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 3 ounces cream cheese, softened
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 1/4 cup granulated sugar + 1/2 cup granulated sugar (divided)
• 1 egg
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon + 1 teaspoon cinnamon (divided)
• 2 teaspoons cornstarch. Adding cornstarch to a cookie recipe helps the cookie stay nice and soft on the inside while allowing the outside of the cookie to be a little more crisp. It also helps the cookies keep their shape while baking.
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• Cookie sheets
• Parchment paper
• Measuring cups and spoons
• Mixing bowls
• Hand mixer or stand mixer
• Whisks
• Stirring spoons
• Cookie scoop (small or medium)

How to make this Churro Cookies recipe

To make this churros cookies recipe, start by preheating the oven to 350 degrees F, and lining two cookie sheets with parchment paper.

Add butter and cream cheese to a large bowl. Using a hand mixer, cream together for about 1 minute.

Add brown sugar and 1/4 cup of the granulated sugar and cream together for 2 more minutes, or until light and fluffy. Adding the sugars and continuing to cream them incorporates air into the mixture so that the cookies will be light and fluffy in texture.

Next, add egg and vanilla extract and mix for 1 more minute.

Add flour, 2 teaspoons of the cinnamon, corn starch, baking powder, baking soda, and salt to a medium bowl. Stir well with a whisk to incorporate and distribute the ingredients evenly.

Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture, mixing with a spoon until all of the flour is just mixed in and not visible (but be careful not to overmix, or you’ll lose some of the air from creaming the butter mixture that makes the cookies bake up fluffy).

In a medium bowl, add the remaining 1/2 cup granulated sugar and the remaining 1 teaspoon cinnamon and whisk until well mixed.

Scoop the churro cookie dough with a cookie scoop, scraping the scoop across the edge of the bowl to make a flat bottom to the cookie. This allows you to create a flat bottom to the cookie and helps keep the cinnamon sugar mixture just on top of the cookie. Dip the top of the cookie (the domed part) in the cinnamon sugar mixture, and place the cookies, flat side down on the prepared cookie sheets, about two inches apart. This recipe will yield 12 larger churro cookies or 24 smaller churros cookies depending on the size of your cookie scoop.

Press the cookies down about halfway, flattening to about 1/4-1/2-inch thick.

Bake the Churro Cookies recipe in the preheated oven for 10-12 minutes, or until the cookies are just golden brown around the bottom edge. Remove the cookies from the oven and allow them to cool on the pan. You can sprinkle additional cinnamon-sugar mixture over the warm cookies while they cool.

Store the churros cookies in an airtight container for a week, or freeze them to keep them for longer. These are great cookies to freeze and grab just a few as a snack because they thaw pretty quickly. This is great for when you want a sweet treat, but don’t want to make a whole batch of cookies!

These churro cream cheese cookies have such a wonderful flavor and texture, inside and out!

Churro Cookies are also great with milk!

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