My youngsters LOVE this recipe! These strawberries and cream cookies style like candy cream and recent strawberries! How? We pack the cookie dough with freeze-dried strawberries (not frozen strawberries!) and white chocolate chips.
Prepared in lower than half-hour, these strawberry cookies are the right summer time dessert!
Freeze Dried Strawberries for Strawberry Cookies?
Wanna make strawberry cookies with out a ton of crimson meals coloring and synthetic flavors? You’ll be able to due to freeze-dried strawberries. Have you ever tried them in baking recipes but? I wasn’t positive how I might really feel about them since I nearly at all times choose recent fruit over… effectively, not recent fruit.
However spoiler alert: freeze dried strawberries are AMAZING! Particularly when baked in strawberry cookies! They work so significantly better in cookies than frozen strawberries or recent strawberries. As a result of they add strawberry taste with out including undesirable extra moisture.
Why You’ll Love this Recipe:
- Freeze-dried strawberries add recent strawberry taste with out making the cookies mushy or moist. Such an enormous baking win!
- Creamy white chocolate chips add a creamy taste that makes you suppose you’re consuming strawberries and cream.
- These cookies are massive, thick, and chewy!
- No cookie dough chilling required – they’re quick to make.
- Completely gorgeous!
Strawberry Cookie Baking Should Haves
- Flour: All-purpose flour is what you’ll wish to use right here! I’ve by no means tried making these GF, however a 1 for 1 gluten free flour would possibly work in case you’re up for experimenting. For greatest outcomes, measure your flour with a digital scale!
- Baking Soda: Helps our cookies unfold! You’ll want to use baking soda, and never baking powder, will would offer you puffy hockey puck like cookies.
- Salt: Added in with our different dry substances, salt helps steadiness the flavors and sweetness. Don’t skip this ingredient!
- Unsalted Butter: You’ll have to beat the unsalted butter till it’s gentle and fluffy, so ensure your butter is softened to room temperature earlier than starting. To hurry this course of up, you possibly can reduce the butter into 1-inch items and place them in a small bowl till they’re softened to room temp. By no means microwave, which as a rule provides you melted butter. Which we don’t need!
- Granulated Sugar: Our foremost sweetener! I exploit greater than a cup of granulated sugar to assist sweeten these strawberry cookies.
- Brown Sugar: You’ll want to pack it within the measuring cup in case you’re not weighing your substances. Gentle brown sugar works greatest, however darkish brown sugar will work in a pinch.
- Vanilla Extract: I counsel pure vanilla extract, or a high-quality bourbon vanilla extract, however by no means imitation vanilla or synthetic vanilla.
- Eggs: Be certain they’re massive eggs and at room temperature. In any other case they gained’t bond correctly with the butter and sugars.
- White Chocolate Chips: Ghirardelli or Guittard are my fave for white chocolate chips! They’re so creamy and scrumptious. And nearly add a cream cheese taste to the cookies.
- Freeze Dried Strawberries: Natierra is my favourite model and if you could find them, the one I like to recommend utilizing! I’ve no affiliation with this model, they’re simply actually actually good! Particularly in these cookies.
One-Bowl Strawberry Cookie Dough
These strawberries and cream cookies are really easy to make in only one bowl. And no cookie dough chilling means you could be consuming them inside half-hour!
Merely bust out a big bowl, and blend the butter with an electrical mixer, then toss within the sugars. Add the eggs and vanilla to the butter combination. Then add in your baking soda, salt, and flour. Lastly, beat within the white chocolate chips and strawberries! That’s it! You’re able to bake.
Simply ensure you don’t over bake your cookies. And that you simply place the pans on wire racks to chill for not less than 10 minutes earlier than consuming or transferring to a serving platter.
The right way to Make Strawberry Cookies:
- Make the cookie dough. No want to relax! However in order for you actually thick cookies, you possibly can chill the cookie dough for half-hour to 2 hours.
- Scoop about 1/4 cup of cookie dough onto parchment paper lined baking sheets.
- Bake till unfold and golden.
- Cool for not less than quarter-hour – or cool utterly.
- Eat your cookies heat, wrap and save for a couple of days, or freeze for as much as 2 months!
Can I make these in Advance?
Certain! Whereas the dough doesn’t have to be chilled, it definitely could be. As an alternative of refrigerating your entire cookie bowl of cookie dough, my recommendation is to scoop and roll the cookie dough onto a big baking sheet, evenly cowl with plastic wrap, and place within the fridge till you’re able to bake, as much as 2 days. Wish to make them even additional prematurely? Learn my freezing ideas under!
Does the Dough Freeze?
It positive does! Merely scoop the dough onto a big baking sheet and place the baking sheet within the freezer (in a protected area it gained’t get smushed) till the dough balls are frozen strong. Then switch the cookie dough balls into freezer-safe ziplock luggage and place within the freezer for as much as 2 months. Whenever you’re able to bake, take away the cookie dough from the freezer and bake as directed within the recipe under. Simply observe you could want so as to add an additional minute or two onto the bake time when baking from a frozen state. Chilly dough takes a bit of longer to bake!
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