Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Cookies {And A Birthday Wish}

I am not a “morning person”. {This is probably a gross understatement.} My brain doesn’t deal well with noise and it certainly doesn’t “get” jokes pre-coffee. It just doesn’t. My husband is the only person who can make me laugh before my morning cup of Joe – other people just get an evil glare.

Truthfully, he can make me laugh almost anytime. Even when I’m mad, or sad, or just in a pissy mood (hey, it happens!). This is one of the many reasons that I married him: his magical ability to lift me out of a funk and brighten my day. This is his superpower. But shhh don’t tell him, or he’ll abuse it.

Why all the random fun facts about Hubs? Today is his birthday! He’s my favorite person in the whole World {also an understatement} and in honor of that fact, I wanted to make him his favorite, albeit ordinary, yellow birthday cake with chocolate frosting. But since he is working in Chicago, and not here to enjoy it, that seemed cruel.

So I settled for the easily shippable Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Cookies! These cookies are some of my favorite chocolate chip cookies that I have ever had! They are chewy and dense with a flavor that will blow you away! With each heavenly bite, there is the perfect balance of rich chocolate and chewy cookie and there is an amazing flavor that you just can’t quite put your finger on…

That flavor is cream cheese! I was skeptical that ¼ cup of cream cheese would really make a difference. Count me out of the skeptic’s circle because it made these cookies extraordinary! Quite fitting for celebrating my extraordinary husband’s birthday! Don’t you think?

These cookies have an outstanding texture that hits that sweet spot of chewiness.

Now I don’t say this often but I would be wary of underbaking these cookies. While they were delicious when baked to my usual underbaked perfection, they were outstanding when baked just several minutes longer. They puffed up a bit more and the texture was truly amazing.

The only thing that I modified from the original recipe was the type and amount of chocolate chips. I used fewer chips because I like to have some bites with just one or two chips as opposed to using the dough as a vehicle to carry as much chocolate as possible. I also used my new favorite combination of Ghirardelli’s semi-sweet and Ghirardelli’s bittersweet (60%). The smattering of bittersweet just takes the cookie to that next level! As if it weren’t already high enough.

If I didn’t know better, I would have thought these cookies were made in Heaven.

But they weren’t, which means you should hustle to the kitchen and whip up a batch of these delightful cookies so that you can have a little piece of Heaven too!

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