Cream Cheese Frosting Filled Snickerdoodles

When I woke up this morning to nothing but the very tips of Wee-Rizzle's toes on the video monitor I knew it was going to be one of those days, but when I walked into the nursery to see Sofie sleeping right next to the crib as if on watch, I thought well maybe it will be just half of one of those days.

It's a balmy -2 outside and I have a three day weekend from work. Even better?  I finished up all the laundry, shopping, and cleaning yesterday.  So, you'd think this fairly tired Momma would rest, relax, and lounge all day, right?  Nope, too logical.  Instead I'm baking!

Thanks to the awesomeness of Pinterest, I'm never lacking in things I'd like to do, whether it be baking, cooking, crafting, or making a list of things for He-Rizzle to do. Today I'm trying my hand at a new recipe and tweaking it for, what I hope is, the better.

He-Rizzle's absolute favorite cookie is the Snickerdoodle.  He seriously loves them and can eat a dozen before I've blinked, so when I saw this recipe it was a no brainer because who doesn't love cream cheese?  Know what people love even more than cream cheese?  Cream cheese frosting.  So, I decided to tweak the Cream Cheese Filled Snickerdoodles, and make it Cream Cheese Frosting filled Snickerdoodles.

I started with my standard Snickerdoodle recipe and added the cream cheese.

Ingredients For Snickerdoodles:

1/2 cup butter, sofened
1/2 cup shortening
1 1/2 cups white sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons cream of tartar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons white sugar
2 tablespoons ground cinnamon

Ingredients for Filling:

1 8oz package cream cheese
1tsp vanilla
Confectioner's Sugar to taste--I put about 4 tablespoons.


Directions:

Preheat oven to 400 degrees (200 C)

Cream together the cream cheese, vanilla, and confectioner's sugar til it's a little fluffy.  I used my stand mixer because I hate mixing cream cheese, and I'm also lazy!

Cream together butter, shortening, 1 1/2 cups sugar, eggs, and vanilla.  It'll look something like this:

Blend in the flour, cream of tartar, baking soda, and salt.

Shape dough by rounded spoonfuls into balls.  I use 1/2 tablespoon to make my balls cause I'm super OCD like that. I also am using a paper plate because it's nap time and they are quiet!

Flatten the ball and put a layer of the cream cheese mixture on top.

Place a thin layer of dough on top of the cream cheese layer, pinching the sides down.

Roll into a ball, then roll the ball in a mixture of the sugar and cinnamon.  I go heavy on the cinnamon because I love cinnamon, it's pretty healthy, and it's purdy.  I've used sugar crystals before and those work really well, but I forgot to buy some at the store so I used regular old sugar.

Place on an ungreased cookie sheet about 2 inches apart and bake for 8-10 minutes. Pardon the ghetto fab cookie sheet.  I never use the good ones until I know it won't ruin anything, stick, or go splatter all over.

And tadaaaaaa! Snickerdoodles with cream cheese frosting filling!

It's hard to see the cream cheese, but it's there!  They're pretty tasty! I went light on the cream cheese this go around because I wasn't sure how it would bake, so next time I'll put a little more. Either way, it gives it a nice little oomph when you bite in!