Gingerbread Cheesecake Cookies

Servings: 1 dozen cookies  

Ingredients 

1 box gingerbread cake and cookie mix

1/4 cup hot water

2 tablespoons butter or margarine, melted

4 ounces cream cheese

1/4 cup sugar

1/8 teaspoon salt

1 egg yolk

1 1/2 teaspoons sour cream

1/4 teaspoon vanilla 

Directions:  

Cheesecake:

1.Mix together cream cheese, sugar and salt with an electric mixer until smooth.

2.Add egg yolk, sour cream and vanilla.

3.Refrigerate while you go on to the next step of making the cookie dough.

Cookies:

1.Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

2.Stir gingerbread mix, water, and butter in medium bowl, using spoon, until dough forms.

3.Shape dough into 1 1/2 inch balls. Place on an ungreased cookie sheet. Make a deep indentation with your thumb in each cookie.

4.Bake cookies for 5 minutes and remove from oven.

5.Re-"thumb" the indentations if they widened in the oven.

6.Using half of a teaspoon, fill the indentations in the cookie with the cheesecake mixture.

7.Return to the oven for another 5-6 minutes. Cool completely  before removing from cookie sheet.

http://www.foodrepublic.com/2011/12/13/gingerbread-cheesecake-cookies-recipe