Strawberry Cookies With Real Strawberries
These super soft strawberry cookies are loaded with incredible, fresh flavor, thanks to freeze-dried strawberries. That’s right, these pretty pink cookies contain no artificial flavors, boxed strawberry cake mix, or gelatin! Instead, they rely on perfectly ripe, REAL strawberries that incorporate beautifully into the dough. When testing this recipe, I did make a few attempts to use fresh strawberries instead of freeze dried, but all were unsuccessful, or at least they weren’t as good as I knew they could be. Using fresh berries introduced a lot of excess moisture into the dough (even when I cooked the berries down on the stovetop), making the cookies cakey (if you’ve made my pumpkin cookies, you know how I feel about cakey cookies) and honestly just lacking in strawberry flavor. So I chose to use freeze-dried berries for the brightest (and most consistent) strawberry flavor, much like in my strawberry frosting!
Why you’ll love this recipe:
NO chilling required! No artificial flavors (and the option to skip the food coloring too). Only 8 ingredients! Less than half an hour to make. Uses REAL strawberries (they’re freeze-dried, but they’re still real!)!
What You Need
Besides the berries, you’ll need a few other basic ingredients, all of which should be in your pantry already. You may notice that this recipe doesn’t include vanilla extract. This was intentional. The vanilla extract bullied the flavor from the berries and diminished it too much. You get a more vibrant berry flavor if you don’t include this ingredient. SAM’S TIP: Be careful not to over-bake your cookies! This will make them dry and greatly affect their taste. These cookies lose so much of their strawberry flavor if overcooked. Remember, this is just an overview of the ingredients I used and why. For the full recipe please scroll down to the bottom of the post!
How to Make Strawberry Cookies
SAM’S TIP: Make sure to let your baking sheet cool completely between batches. Adding the cookie dough to a hot (or even warm) sheet could result in runny, messy strawberry cookies. Love fruity cookies? Try my lemon cookies next! Enjoy! Let’s bake together! I’ll be walking you through all the steps in my written recipe and video below! If you try this recipe, be sure to tag me on Instagram, and you can also find me on YouTube and Facebook
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