These Strawberry and Cream Cookies have such a strong strawberry flavor with a sweet hint from white chocolate. Chewy, soft, delicious and easy to make!
These cookies are SO good and so tasty. We can’t go and put real fresh strawberries and cookies because then they’ll be all soggy and gross. That’s where freeze-dried strawberries come into play. They are delicious and pack a huge strawberry flavor punch. And the “cream” comes from the white chocolate.
I used to give white chocolate some major side-eye but now I’m warming up to it, trying to like it. I think context is everything and in these cookies, the white chocolate is good. In other things…meh. We’ll see.
Ingredients for Strawberry and Cream Cookies
- All-purpose flour. Pretty standard flour that will yield a chewy, sturdy cookie
- Baking powder and baking soda. These cookies have both baking powder and baking soda. Baking powder makes gives them a nice lift and baking soda gives them color and spreads.
- Kosher salt. Of course, you need salt to balance the sweet.
- Butter. These cookies use melted butter which makes them easy to whip up at a moments notice.
- Brown sugar. Gives these cookies a nice chewy quality.
- Granulated sugar. The granulated sugar gives these cookies moistness, allows them to spread and contributes to their chewy texture.
- Eggs. These give these cookies a bit of height and binds all of the ingredients together.
- Freeze Dried Strawberries. I LOVE baking with freeze dried strawberries. They have a super potent strawberry flavor and are so easy to incorporate in all sorts of baked goods.
- White Chocolate Chips. This type of chocolate is sweet, mellow and compliments the strawberries and cookies in a super lovely way.
How to Make Strawberry and Cream Cookies
- Whisk the dry ingredients together. We have the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
- Stir the melted butter and sugars together.
- And then add the eggs and vanilla.
- Mix in the chopped up freeze dried strawberries and white chocolate chips.
- Chill the dough for 1 hour.
- Scoop out the cookie dough and bake!
- Serve them with milk.
If you’re looking to freeze these Strawberry and Cream Cookies, I wrote a whole post about How to Freeze Cookie Dough!
Hope you find that helpful AND if you make these cookies, let me know on Instagram!
Strawberry and Cream Cookies
Ingredients
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 cup unsalted butter, (we're going to melt it so any temperature is fine)
- 1 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup freeze-dried strawberries, crushed or finely chopped
- 8 ounces white chocolate chips
Directions
- In a large bowl, mix together flour, baking powder, soda and salt.
- In medium saucepan, set over low heat, melt the butter. Remove from the heat and whisk in the sugar. Next add the eggs and vanilla. Set aside for 5 minutes to cool. Pour into the dry ingredients and mix until combined. Lastly, fold in the freeze-dried strawberries and white chocolate chips. Cover with plastic wrap or a towel and transfer to the fridge to chill for 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 350F. Scoop out 1 1/2-inch balls of dough and roll them between your palms; place them onto a parchment-lined baking sheet spacing them 3 inches apart. Bake for 8 to 10 min, until lightly golden brown. Repeat with the remaining cookie dough. These are best eaten warm with milk.
19 Comments
I made these but substituted King Arthur Gluten Free Measure for Measure in place of regular flour – it was a little trial and error as they didn’t spread the way the glutenous versions appear to. I pushed them fairly flat with a wooden spoon before baking and they came out fluffy and delightful!
The only change I would make next time is more strawberries 🙂
Everytime I make these they turn out SO delicious (sometimes I use dried raspberries too), however, no matter what I do they always end up very puffy and cakey. Should I be flattening them down before baking?
Hmm…that’s so strange. Next time, I would try baking them without chilling them and see how they turn out. Maybe just test it out with 1 or 2? The dough might be too cold…that’s the only thing I can think of.
Is it possible to make this wish fresh strawberries? Freeze-dried ones aren’t available where I live but fresh ones are! Excited to try this recipe! 🙂
hi! these definitely need freeze-dried. sorry!
If you’d like to use fresh or frozen strawberries, I’d suggest making these:
https://www.acozykitchen.com/black-and-pink-cookies
This is my second time making these cookies. It’s cookie day for my Junior Lifeguards team and these are what I’m bringing. They are SO GOOD!
I love these cookies, will definitely make them again.
I just made these for Valentine’s Day, and they turned out great! I added an extra 1/2 cup of flour and additional strawberries, and wow- amazing!
This is my 4th time coming to your site to get the recipe for this cookie. I love them, my bf loves them and my friends love them!!! They are *SO* good (:
These sound absolutely delicious! I’ve never made a cookie recipe with melted butter before. I’m excited to try this!
I did not the first time. Tried again with parchment and they were perfect! Thanks!
Delicious and everyone who has tried them loves them, but I had some burnt patches at the bottom. Is it the strawberries that I didn’t crush as well as I should have?
Hmm…it could’ve been the strawberries. Did you use parchment?
My mom told me to choose a recipe and i chose this hope they are as good as they look
Congratulations! This recipe looks amazing and I just bought freeze dried strawberries….they had them at walmart….sometimes I am amazed at what Walmart has in their store.
Ooh girl, you just made my day. I have a bag of freeze-dried strawbs and no idea what to do with them – ‘cept now I do! These look so good I swan-necked with excitement!
That sounds like an amazing honeymoon! It’s almost crazy when you come back because there’s so much planning for a wedding, etc. that it feels weird to come back to not a huge to-do list — at least it did for me. Good call on the freeze dried strawberries — these look amazing!
Hey! These look amazing! Are you able to supply weighted measurements as well? Thanks!