Blueberry Cheesecake Cookies

Name: Blueberry Cheesecake Cookies
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 45 min
Ingredients: 1 cup salted butter, room temperature (226 g ); 1½ cups light brown sugar, packed (290 g ); 1 egg, large; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 12 graham crackers (2 cups of crumbs) (190 g); 2 cups all purpose flour (275 g ); 1 teaspoon baking soda; ½ teaspoon salt; 4 oz. cream cheese, softened; ½ cup salted butter (113 g ); 2½ cups powdered sugar (225 g ); 1½ teaspoons vanilla extract; 2 Tablespoons cornstarch (17 g ); 1½ cups blueberry pie filling

Blueberry Cheesecake Cookies are an easy Crumbl copycat recipe with a graham cracker cookie base, cream cheese frosting, and blueberry topping.

You can make Homemade Blueberry Pie Filling with fresh or frozen blueberries to put on top of the cookies, which is amazing! It's a nice dye free option, or using canned blueberry pie filling works as well if you're short on time. We like to add a few crumbles of graham crackers on the tops of the cookies too, just to be a little extra.

Blueberry pie filling on top of cheesecake cookie on white plate.

These are similar to Cherry Cheesecake Cookies or Strawberry Cheesecake Cookies, with the same delicious graham cracker base.

Honestly, the graham cracker cookie is my favorite part. I could eat them plain, they taste like a buttery cheesecake crust in chewy cookie form. They're made with all brown sugar to make them taste extra delicious!

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What To Expect
🛒 Key Ingredients
✏️ Substitutions & Variations
🧑‍🍳 Instructions
📌 Top Tips & Hacks
❓Frequently Asked Questions
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What To Expect

Taste: The cookie tastes like a graham cracker crust, the cream cheese frosting is sweet but not too rich, and the blueberry pie filling is the perfect tart addition to balance out the sweet.
Ease: It's a medium level difficulty, just because it takes a few more steps (like making frosting) than making a simple cookie, but the results are well worth it!
Time: About 10 minutes to make the cookie dough, 10-12 minutes to bake, and 20ish minutes to cool them while making the frosting. After that, maybe another 10-15 minutes to frost and spoon blueberry pie filling onto each cookie. About an hour total, with cooling time.

🛒 Key Ingredients

Labeled ingredients for blueberry cheesecake cookies on metal baking pan.

Cream Cheese - for the "cheesecake" flavored frosting. You can use full fat or fat free but it may impact the flavor.
Blueberry pie filling - you can use homemade or store-bought, a 21 oz can should do it, and you can save any extras to put on ice cream or yogurt.
Sugar - Brown sugar only for the cookie dough for the flavor and texture! Powdered sugar for the frosting.
Graham Crackers - ground up into a powder, these are used in the cookie dough to make the delicious graham cracker flavored base for the cookie.
Butter - used in the cookies and in the frosting, using butter in the frosting makes it a little more stable. Do NOT use margarine or a butter substitute. It needs to be real butter!

See the recipe card below for full information on ingredients and quantities.

✏️ Substitutions & Variations

Cream Cheese - mascarpone cheese could be switched in, it tastes delicious!
Brown Sugar - you can use dark or light brown sugar.
Add ½ teaspoon of cinnamon to the cookie dough for a subtle flavor difference. It's delicious!
Blueberry Pie Filling - there are dye free and preservative free options out there, or you can use fresh blueberries or Bonne Maman blueberry preserves, they're lovely! Another alternative is fresh blueberries on top.
Add lemon zest and a little lemon juice to the frosting to make a lemon blueberry cheesecake frosting to put on top. YUM.

🧑‍🍳 Instructions

Butter and brown sugar in metal bowl, and egg and vanilla in metal mixing bowl with paddle attachment.

Step 1. In a mixing bowl, combine butter and brown sugar. Mix on high speed for at least 3 minutes with an electric mixer to "cream" them together and begin dissolving the sugar.
Step 2. Add in the egg and vanilla extract and mix for 1 minute, until the egg is fully mixed in and the mixture is fluffy.

Graham crackers in quater blender and crumbs and salt in metal mixing bowl.

Step 3. In a blender, pulse the graham crackers until they become a fine powder, or crush them in a gallon-sized bag with a rolling pin. Just make sure to crush them into a fine powder.
Step 4. Add the graham cracker powder, flour, baking soda, and salt (cinnamon optional) to the cookie dough and mix on low speed until everything is mixed in, about 1 minute.

Hand pressing down on raw graham cracker dough and baked graham cracker base cookie.

Step 5. Scoop the cookie dough onto prepared baking sheets with a large 3-4 Tablespoon cookie scoop. Smash the cookies slightly so they are about 2 inches.
Step 6. Bake at 350 ℉ for 10-11 minutes, they will be starting to crack around the edges. Let cool completely before frosting.

Cream cheese and butter in glass bowl and powdered sugar and vanilla in bowl.

Step 7. In a mixing bowl, combine butter and cream cheese. Mix at medium/high speed with an electric mixer until fluffy, about 1 minute (above left image).
Step 8. Add in the powdered sugar and vanilla and mix well, until there are no sugar pockets left and frosting is smooth (above right image).

Piping frosting onto graham cracker cookie.

Step 9. Once the cookies are completely cool, transfer the cream cheese frosting to a piping bag and pipe onto each cookie (I use a larger round tip) starting on the outside, frosting in a spiral to the center.

Spooning blueberry pie filling onto cheesecake cookie.

Step 10. Place blueberry pie filling on each cookie, and sprinkle with graham cracker crumbs (optional). Enjoy!

📌 Top Tips & Hacks

You can spread the frosting onto the cookies with a knife but it looks amazing if done with a large round frosting tip and it's easy cleanup with disposable pastry bags. I usually use the reusable pastry bags just to have less waste.
Remember that large cookies (4 Tablespoon balls) take longer to bake than smaller cookies. This batch makes 12-13 larger cookies that bake for 10-12 minutes. Smaller, regular-sized cookies using a 1.5-2 Tablespoon cookie scoop will take 8-10 minutes to bake.
If making ahead, don't put the blueberry pie filling on top of the cookies until ready to serve so they don't get soggy. You can refrigerate overnight and bring to room temperature to serve so the cookies aren't hard.

Bite out of blueberry cheesecake cookie on wood cutting board.

❓Frequently Asked Questions

Can blueberry cheesecake cookies be frozen?

Yes, I would either freeze the raw dough in balls or freeze the baked cookies separate from the frosting. That way they would be easy to thaw and frost.

Can I make these another flavor?

Yes! I have a cherry and strawberry version on my website that are reader favorites in my delicious cookies section of my website.

How do I store blueberry cheesecake cookies?

Since the frosting has cream cheese, I would refrigerate them for up to 3 days, or freeze them for up to 3 months, without the blueberry filling or frosting on top.
They're best served close to room temperature (so they aren't hard) so pull them out of the fridge for a good 20 minutes before serving!

Can I use fresh blueberries for a topping?

Yes! I like both pie filling and blueberries, but one or the other is fine too. You can even use blueberry jam.

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