Strawberries and Cream Cookies

The Best Flavor Combo a Cookie Ever Did See

By
Jessie Sheehan
Jessie Sheehan
Jessie Sheehan
Jessie Sheehan is a recipe developer, baker, food writer, and author of "The Vintage Baker" and "Icebox Cakes."
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Updated on 08/1/21
strawberries and cream cookies

Jessie Sheehan / The Spruce

Prep: 10 mins
Cook: 12 mins
Total: 22 mins
Servings: 20 servings
Yield: 40 cookies
Nutrition Facts (per serving)
260 Calories
12g Fat
35g Carbs
3g Protein
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Nutrition Facts
Servings: 20
Amount per serving
Calories 260
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 12g 16%
Saturated Fat 7g 37%
Cholesterol 35mg 12%
Sodium 155mg 7%
Total Carbohydrate 35g 13%
Dietary Fiber 1g 2%
Total Sugars 23g
Protein 3g
Vitamin C 4mg 19%
Calcium 25mg 2%
Iron 1mg 5%
Potassium 62mg 1%
*The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a food serving contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.
(Nutrition information is calculated using an ingredient database and should be considered an estimate.)

Strawberry and cream is just about the best flavor combo imaginable. Whether showcased simply with bowls of lightly sweetened whipped cream or more elaborately as shortcakes, it is always a crowd-pleaser.

Equal parts chewy center and crispy edges, this vanilla cookie gets the strawberry and cream treatment with white chocolate chips and freeze-dried berries. The tart strawberries pack an incredible flavor punch (gorgeously studded throughout each cookie) which balances with the sweetness of the chips beautifully.

The cookies are assembled in a single bowl and come together in about 10 minutes, tops. Don't skip melting the butter as it contributes to the cookies' chewiness and easy-peasy assembly. Breaking up the strawberries a bit before adding to the dough makes for a nice distribution of both flavor and color—you can do so by crushing them in your fist before sprinkling them over the bowl.

Ingredients

  • 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

  • 1 1/4 teaspoons kosher salt

  • 1 teaspoon baking soda

  • 8 ounces (1 cup) unsalted butter, melted

  • 1 3/4 cups sugar

  • 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract

  • 2 large eggs

  • 1 cup white chocolate chips, plus more for pressing into cookies

  • 1 cup freeze-dried strawberries, crushed, plus more for pressing into cookies

Steps to Make It

  1. Heat the oven to 350 F.


  2. In a small bowl, whisk the flour, salt, and baking soda.


  3. In a large mixing bowl, whisk the melted butter and sugar.


  4. Add vanilla and eggs to the bowl with the butter and sugar. Whisk until fully incorporated and glossy, about 30 seconds.

  5. Add the dry ingredients, then use a flexible spatula to mix until only a few streaks of flour remain in the dough.

  6. Add chocolate chips and crushed strawberries. Mix until the flour disappears.

  7. Using a 1 1/2-tablespoon scoop (or measuring spoons), scoop 12 balls of dough onto a parchment-lined baking sheet.

  8. Press a few extra chips and a piece or two of a crushed strawberry into the top of each scoop of dough.

  9. Bake for about 12 minutes, rotating at the halfway point.

  10. Let cookies cool to room temperature (or eat warm). Cookies will keep for up to three days on the counter in an airtight container.

Recipe Tips

  • Let the melted butter cool slightly before adding it to the sugar.
  • Crush the strawberries in your hands in such a way that you have a variety of different sized pieces as well as some strawberry "dust."
  • You can chop the freeze-dried strawberries with a knife, if desired, but the fist crush is much more fun.
  • Pressing extra chocolate and strawberries into the top of each cookie makes them "insta-ready."
  • Shimmying a cookie cutter over the freshly baked cookies helps to give your cookie a perfectly round shape. You can use a widemouthed jar if you don't have a cookie or biscuit cutter.

Recipe Variations

  • Freeze-dried blueberries, instead of strawberries, would be lovely with the white chocolate chips.
  • Freeze-dried raspberries and semisweet chocolate chips would also be a great combo.
  • Feel free to make this a chocolate-covered strawberry situation with dark or semisweet chocolate chips instead of the white.