Delicious Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cheesecake Bars...

I found this recipe on http://thegirlwhoateeverything.blogspot.com/ I really like her blog, she has a lot of really fun recipes, I have tried a few and have been happy with the outcomes!

Above is the crust. You will need 1 1/1 cups of graham cracker crumbs. ( since this was my first time making these, I followed the recipe exact, however next time I make them I will probably use at least 2 full cups of crushed graham crackers if not more. The recipe says 5 T of butter, but again next time I would use 6 T of butter and then 2/3 cup of semi sweet chocolate chips. The recipe calls for mini chips which would make it easier, but I didn't have any of those, so I just used the larger ones and it still worked ok.

Preheat the over to 325, butter a 9x12 baking pan, then line the pan with parchment paper, leaving enough to extend over sides. Combine graham cracker crumbs and melted butter, stir in chips.

Press crust into bottom of pan, bake for 6 minutes, set aside.

Above is the cookie dough.
5 T butter at room temp
1/3 cup packed light brown sugar
3T granulated white sugar
31/8 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
3/4 cup flour
1 cup semi sweet choc chips

mix butter, brown sugar, salt, sugar, and vanilla. Add the flour a little at a time, you might not end up using ALL of the flour, just use enough until your dough looks like a good cookie dough, stir in chips, set aside

Here is my cooking assistant eating his Daddy's favorite kind of popsicles, pace bars...

Filling

1/4 cup granulated white sugar

1 large egg

1 tsp of vanilla, I would do probably 2

10 ounces of cream cheese at room temp

FIRST beat cream cheese and sugar until smooth, then add egg and vanilla.

Pour the cream cheese filling onto crust, then take the cookie dough and roll into little balls and drop it onto the cream cheese filling, just kind of randomly drop them everywhere.I even took extra choc chips and drppped them as well. Bake for 30 mins at 325

It will come out looking like this....

Then to top it off, we add a lovely chocolate drizzle, melt 1/3 cup semi sweet choc chips in the microwave, add a 1/2 T of butter mix it in to mak chocolate more smoothe, and go ahead and lather this bad boy up!

Cool the bars completely in the pan for about an hour, take the bars out of the pan cut them up on the parchment paper, and serve or if you aren't serving right away put them in the fridge and then take them out a little before to cool off when you are ready to enjoy them!

I am glad I tried something new and different, I was happy with the end result! And the shocker is that my hubby loved them. Ty isn't big on cookies and cakes, so I was VERY happy that he liked this little treat!