Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cheesecake!

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cheesecake! 

I made this for my mom for Mother's Day. It was a hit! My brothers could not stop eating it. This is delicious if you love cheesecake and cookies. Put them together and BAM, it's heaven. 

Ingredients

        Crust

• 3/4 stick Crisco® Butter Flavor All-Vegetable Shortening Sticks or 3/4 cup Crisco® Butter flavor All-Vegetable Shortening
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  • 1 1/4 cups firmly packed light brown sugar
  • 2 tablespoons milk
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 3/4 cups Pillsbury BEST® All Purpose Flour
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 (6 oz.) package semi-sweet chocolate chips (1 cup)
  Filling

• 1 8 oz package of cream cheese
• 1 egg
• 1/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 tsp vanilla

Directions

1. Beat together the shortening and brown sugar.
2. Then add milk, vanilla, and egg. Beat together.
3. In a separate bowl mix together the flour, salt, and baking soda.
4. Slowly add in the chocolate chips.
5. After the dough is mixed well, split the dough in half. 
6. At the bottom of a greased 8x8 pan, press half of the dough into a crust. Set aside the other half.
7. Now it is time to make the cheese cake portion. Beat together the cream cheese, egg, sugar, and vanilla.
8. Slowly pour the beaten cream cheese mixture onto the bottom crust.
9. Take out the other half of dough. Scoop and drop spoonfuls onto the top of the cream cheese mixture.
10. Bake at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes, or until golden on top.
11. Cool and cut!