Classical Cheesecake

Cheesecake Cookies


Wow these cookies went fast! These simple bite size cheesecakes are insanely delicious. You will be coming back for more. And the best part is they only take four ingredients and 10 min to make. How easy is that! This recipe is perfect for everyone who loves cheesecake but find it too hard to make. Now make a delicious cheesecake in 3 easy steps. You will love these. Make a batch and try to eat just one!

Prep Time 10 min
Bake Time 15 min
Serves 30 cookies

Ingredients

1 tube of sugar cookie dough, or homemade dough
1 pkg (8oz) of cream cheese, softened
1/2 can (7oz) sweetened condensed milk
Topping: 1 cup of sliced strawberries
or mandarin oranges



Directions

Preheat oven to 350F. Roll sugar cookies into a 1" balls. Place on cookie sheet and bake for 8-10 min. Cool cookies for 10 min. While cookies are baking make the cheesecake topping. Beat softened cream cheese in a mixer. Add sweetened condensed milk and mix until well blended and smooth.

Spread cream cheese mixture on top of cookies. Don't be shy with the topping there is plenty. The more you use the more delicious the cookie will be!

Top the cookie with washed and sliced strawberries or other sliced fruit such as oranges or bananas.


These cookies are absolutely delicious, try being a little creative with your cheesecake cookies. Try these variations and mix and match.

Try these cookies Add-ins Add the finishing touch

Vanilla Cookies (Yellow Cake Mix)	1 small can of crushed pineapple, drained	Sliced pineapple
Chocolate Cookies (Chocolate Cake Mix)	1/3 cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips, melted	Drizzled melted chocolate
Ginger Cookies (Ginger Snap)	2 spoonfuls of fresh lemon juice and a spoonful of zest	Whip cream topping and coconut
Sugar Cookies	1 ripe banana, mashed	Banana slices and walnuts

1. Prepare and bake the cookies 2. To the cream cheese filling stir in the add-ins 3. Add your finishing touches

TIP: To prepare cookies from cake mix simply add in 1/2 cup of vegetable oil and 2 eggs a box of cake mix of your choice.

TIP: You can freeze these cookies for up to 2 months. After topping the cookie, cover in a tight container and freeze.

HISTORY
How this recipe relates to history. Well, these cookies are elegant and very simple with only 4 ingredients and 3 steps to make. Can you guess which era these cookies represent?
Take a look at the picture below. The following person was a very famous composer during this time period.


Did you guess right! This awesome pancake is an image of Mozart. Here is a real picture to compare.


Mozart was a child prodigy composer during the classical period and many people today still enjoy his wonderfully creative music.

Therefore, the cookies imitate the classical period. The neoclassicism art and architecture became simpler and more conservative and music developed newly formed rules of composition.


I simplified a regular cheesecake recipe to 4 ingredients and 3 simple steps. The same as classical period music, art and architecture were simplified from the previous Baroque and Rococo periods. This cookie follows withing the rules of cheesecake as it has a corresponding base, filling and topping. Just as classical music had rules that were followed by composers.
The cookies are so delicious and make with only 4 ingredients, which represents the elegance, pleasing without excess, controlled aspects of classical music.

Creativity

These cheesecake cookies are creative because I was able to use only 4 ingredients to make a simple and elegant dessert. I also had a theme of using sugar cookies to imitate the periods of the Baroque and Classical period in order for readers to compare and notice their differences. Another aspect of creativity for this cookies is I developed different ways to make these cookies (as seen in the table above). This table enables my readers to be creative in their own way but still stay inside the rules which is similar to the way Classical music was composed. I also creatively made my cheesecake cookies have three layers. Each layer can be creative in its own way as well, the layers represent the three movements of sonata-allegro: Exposition (Cookie base), Development (Icing) and Recapitulation (Topping).