Strawberry White Chocolate Chip Cookies
Strawberry White Chocolate Chip Cookies are buttery, soft, and taste like strawberries and cream! These wonderful cookies are the perfect Valentines Day treat!
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Servings: 18 cookies
Ingredients
- ¾ cup freeze dried strawberries *I used Trader Joe's brand
- 1 ½ cups granulated white sugar
- 1 cup (two sticks) butter, at room temperature
- 1 large egg yolk (whites discarded)
- 1 large whole egg
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon vanila bean paste *can also be found at Trader Joe's
- 2 ¼ cups all purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup white chocolate chips, or chopped white chocolate chunks
Instructions
- In a blender or food processor, pulse ¾ cups of the freeze dried strawberries into a powder while still keeping some chunks. After pulsing the strawberries, whisk together the strawberry mixture and sugar in the bowl of a stand mixer, or a large bowl.
- In the stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment (or by hand with some muscle strength) beat the butter and strawberry sugar on medium low speed until nice and smooth. When the butter mixture is smooth, add the egg, egg yolk, vanilla extract, vanilla bean paste and mix again until the mixture comes together.
- In the bowl with the wet ingredients, add the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Mix until everything comes together. Add the white chocolate chips and gently mix a few more times until evenly distributed.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and line two cookie sheets with parchment paper.
- On parchment paper lined cookie sheets scoop out the dough using a cookie scoop or kitchen spoon and place the dough 2″ apart and chill for 15 minutes in the freezer before baking. Chilling the dough will help prevent spreading.
- For chewier cookies, bake at 350 degrees F for 15-16 minutes. The cookies will appear under baked, and super soft; but after they cool will stay nice and chewy. For slightly crunchier cookies, bake for 17-18 minutes. As they cool, the cookies will harden and have a more crunchy, chewy texture.