Strawberry & Cream Cookies – Sally’s Baking Dependancy

Smooth-baked with crisp edges, loaded with chewy dried strawberries and creamy white chocolate, these strawberries & cream cookies ship a summery-sweet style any time of 12 months.

Have you ever ever tried my strawberry biscuit cookies? Buttery, tender, and flaky, the cookies come collectively like an precise biscuit dough crammed with recent berries. They’re cute, candy, and topped with icing.

However they don’t have that chewy-dense texture everyone knows and love about, say, chocolate chip cookies. That’s as a result of throwing recent strawberries into cookie dough creates a very moist cookie dough… aka a cookie paste. I really like the strawberry biscuit cookies, however I by no means actually gave up on my strawberry cookie quest.

Enter freeze-dried strawberries, the magical type of berry goodness that makes strawberry buttercream attainable. Give the freeze-dried fruit a tough chop and throw them into cookie dough together with white chocolate chunks and cream cheese. It is a recipe for dessert utopia.

Why You’ll Adore These Strawberries & Cream Cookies

• Cream cheese within the dough makes for tender and creamy-tasting cookies
• The freeze-dried strawberries rehydrate within the dough, so the bits of berry are deliciously chewy (not ethereal and light-weight)
• Completely candy with gooey swimming pools of melted white chocolate
• Thick and soft-baked heart, with crispy edges
• Mixture of white chocolate and strawberry is so yummy—similar to in these white chocolate strawberry cupcakes
• Get pleasure from candy strawberries & cream any time of 12 months!

We’ll use the identical cookie dough base as these cookies & cream cookies. Utilizing a mix of butter and cream cheese, the cookies are further tender and uniquely creamy-tasting. So satisfying.

A Few Key Substances You Want

• Cornstarch: I really like including a contact of cornstarch as a result of it helps create a thicker, softer cookie. When you don’t have it, simply depart it out.
• Baking Soda: Helps the cookies puff up after which fall to their crinkly, chewy future.
• Cream Cheese: Makes for a deliciously tender and creamy cookie, which is what all of us love in these cream cheese sugar cookies.
• White Chocolate: Chopped white chocolate melts into gooey little puddles of candy creaminess. The items on the underside of the cookies tackle a scrumptious caramelized taste, too. You may also use white chocolate chips as a substitute, or semi-sweet, milk chocolate, or darkish chocolate chips in case you favor.
• Freeze-Dried Strawberries: Whereas these begin with a light-as-air dry and crispy texture, the strawberries really rehydrate within the dough, in order that they find yourself delightfully chewy within the baked cookies. (I don’t notably love the feel of freeze-dried strawberries, however after baking in a moist dough, the feel completely transforms.)

Cream the Butter & Cream Cheese Collectively First

Creamed room-temperature butter and sugar is the bottom of many cookie recipes. However earlier than we add the sugar, it’s crucial to correctly cream the cream cheese and butter collectively. The 2 are completely different textures—cream cheese is way softer than butter. My tip is to beat the cream cheese in your mixer till very tender and clean, with no lumps. Then add the softened butter and beat collectively till mixed. That is your creamy base for these strawberries & cream cookies.

Freeze-Dried Strawberries Success Suggestions

1. The place to purchase freeze-dried strawberries? I discover freeze-dried strawberries in my common grocery retailer within the dried fruit aisle. They’re turning into fairly frequent. Dealer Joe’s, Amazon, and Goal all carry them, as properly.
2. Combine them into the dough final. Beat within the white chocolate chunks first, after which add within the strawberry items in your mixer’s lowest velocity, simply briefly to include, with out letting the mixer crush the berries an excessive amount of (otherwise you’ll find yourself with pinkish-taupe cookies). Use the items of strawberries, not all of the strawberry mud that’s created while you chop the freeze-dried berries. Save that for making the frosting for a strawberry cake!

Anticipate a thick and sticky dough. Be sure to take the time to relax it within the fridge for a minimum of 2 hours, in any other case your cookies will unfold into shapeless puddles within the oven. The dough stiffens up fairly properly after 2 hours within the fridge:

Suggestions for Shaping Your Cookies

After chilling, scoop the dough (heaping 1.5 Tablespoons/35g in measurement, I take advantage of this medium cookie scoop) and roll into balls. Truly, you need to kind them into tall columns (LOL) to assist guarantee good thick cookies, such as you see me do when making chewy chocolate chip cookies.

Let’s eat!

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Strawberries & Cream Cookies

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  Creator: Sally
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  Prep Time: 2 hours, quarter-hour
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  Prepare dinner Time: 13–quarter-hour
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  Complete Time: 2 hours, 35 minutes
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  Yield: 28–30 cookies
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  Class: Cookies
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  Technique: Baking
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  Delicacies: American

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Description

Utilizing a mix of butter and cream cheese, these strawberry-speckled white chocolate cookies are further tender and uniquely creamy-tasting. Chill the dough for a minimum of 2 hours earlier than baking.

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Directions

1. Whisk the flour, cornstarch, baking soda, and salt collectively in a medium bowl. Put aside.
2. In a big bowl utilizing a hand mixer or a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, beat the cream cheese on medium-high velocity till fully clean and creamy. Add the butter and beat till mixed, scraping down the perimeters and up the underside of the bowl as wanted. Add granulated sugar and brown sugar and beat on medium-high velocity till clean and creamy, about 2 minutes. Add the egg and vanilla and beat on excessive velocity till mixed, about 1 minute. Scrape down the perimeters and up the underside of the bowl and beat once more as wanted to mix.
3. Add the dry substances to the moist substances and blend on low velocity till mixed. With the mixer operating on low velocity, beat within the white chocolate chunks. Add the freeze-dried strawberries and beat on low velocity briefly, till simply mixed.
4. Cowl and chill the dough for a minimum of 2 hours within the fridge (and as much as 4 days). If chilling for longer than a number of hours, permit to take a seat at room temperature for a minimum of half-hour earlier than rolling and baking as a result of the dough will likely be fairly arduous.
5. Preheat oven to 350°F (177°C). Line baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats. Put aside.
6. Roll cookie dough, a heaping 1.5 Tablespoons of dough per cookie (I take advantage of this medium-size cookie scoop), and place 3 inches aside on the baking sheets. Bake for 13–quarter-hour or till flippantly browned on the perimeters. The facilities will look very tender.
7. Take away from the oven and permit cookies to chill on the baking sheet for five minutes earlier than transferring to a wire rack to chill fully. Whereas the cookies are nonetheless heat, I wish to press a number of extra white chocolate chunks into the tops, only for seems to be.
8. Cookies keep recent coated at room temperature for as much as 1 week.

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Notes

1. Make Forward & Freezing Directions: You may make the cookie dough and chill it within the fridge for as much as 4 days. Enable to come back to room temperature then proceed with step 5. Baked cookies freeze properly for as much as 3 months. Unbaked cookie dough balls freeze properly for as much as 3 months. Bake frozen cookie dough balls for an additional minute, no must thaw. Right here’s the way to freeze cookie dough.
2. Particular Instruments (affiliate hyperlinks): Electrical Mixer (Stand Mixer or Handheld) | Baking Sheets | Silicone Baking Mats or Parchment Sheets | Medium Cookie Scoop
3. Cornstarch: I really like including just a little cornstarch to some cookie recipes as a result of it helps hold the cookies further tender. You may depart it out in case you don’t have any with no different modifications to the recipe wanted. (The cookies are nonetheless fairly tender with out it!)
4. Cream Cheese: Use half of an 8-ounce block of full-fat cream cheese. Don’t use cream cheese unfold or whipped cream cheese. If utilizing low-fat or fat-free, remember the fact that the feel of the cookies will likely be completely different. They gained’t be as wealthy or chewy and will unfold extra. I like to recommend full-fat.
5. Freeze-Dried Strawberries: This cookie recipe solely works with freeze dried strawberries (or attempt freeze-dried raspberries or blueberries). Don’t use recent or frozen strawberries. If you wish to use these, attempt these strawberry biscuit cookies as a substitute. I all the time discover freeze-dried strawberries in my common grocery retailer within the aisle with the dried fruit. Goal, Entire Meals, and Dealer Joe’s carry them, too. Or you may purchase them online.
6. White Chocolate: I usually use the Baker’s or Ghirardelli model white chocolate baking bars, which are available in 4-ounce (113g) bars, so I chopped up 1 and 1/2 bars for these cookies. Be at liberty to make use of 1 cup white chocolate chips or semi-sweet chocolate chips as a substitute.
7. Make sure to try my high 5 cookie baking suggestions AND these are my 10 must-have cookie baking instruments.

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