26 cream cheese cookie recipes

Kolachki: tender, flaky Eastern European cream cheese cookies wrapped around a sweet ground walnut filling and rolled in sugar. A buttery, melt-in-your-mouth holiday tradition.

Rugalach rolls cream cheese dough around apricot preserves, cinnamon-sugar, ground pecans, and currants into bite-sized crescent cookies. The Jewish-American holiday cookie passed down through generations of bakers.

Cream cheese rugelach filled with raspberry jam, cinnamon brown sugar, cocoa, and hazelnuts. Flaky crescent cookies that freeze beautifully baked or unbaked.

Orange chocolate chip cookies made with cream cheese in the dough, fresh orange zest, and semi-sweet chocolate chips. Soft, tangy, and citrusy drop cookies.

Cream cheese pinwheel cookies with a cinnamon-walnut-orange filling rolled jelly-roll style and sliced into spirals. A make-ahead cookie that yields five dozen.

Eye-catching pinwheel cookies made from cocoa-rich chocolate dough, shaped with corner-cut slits and filled with a sweet cream cheese and coconut center topped with chopped nuts. A stunning cookie tray showpiece.

Fudge nut brownies with a cream cheese-chocolate filling sandwiched between a buttery cookie crust. Loaded with walnuts and semi-sweet chocolate. Freezer-friendly.

Soft-baked bars with apples, cranberries, and nuts baked into orange-scented batter, then frosted with tangy orange cream cheese icing. Perfect for holiday cookie trays.

Loaded drop cookies with cream cheese, chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, walnuts, raisins and coconut. Rich dairy base creates ultra-soft centers with chewy edges in just 12 minutes.

Tender cocoa cut-out cookies made with cream cheese and almond extract, drizzled with a homemade cocoa glaze and topped with almonds. Dough chills overnight for clean, easy cutting. Makes 4 dozen.