Recipe for COOKIE DOUGH CHEESECAKE - Martinsville Bulletin

COOKIE DOUGH CHEESECAKE
Desserts
Contributed by: Amy Reed
Ingredients: 2 8-oz. cream cheese, softened 1â�„2 cup sugar 1â�„2 tsp. vanilla 2 eggs 3â�„4 cup refrigerated cookie dough (any flavor; peanut butter chocolate chip cookie dough is good) 1 graham cracker pie crust
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Beat cream cheese, sugar and vanilla in a large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until well blended. Add eggs until just blended. Take about 1â�„2 cup of the cookie dough and drop by teaspoonfuls into batter. Stir gently. Pour batter into crust. Top with level teaspoonfuls of remaining cookie dough. Bake pie for 40 minutes or until center is almost set. Let pie cool, then refrigerate for 3 hours or overnight. Refrigerate leftovers.
(This recipe was contributed as part of a "Cook of the Week" feature.)