Strawberry Cookies With White Chocolate Chunks
One Dozen
Recipe:
Author: OMGChocolateDesserts.com
Recipe type: Dessert
Prep time: 20 mins
Cook time: 15 mins
Total time: 35 mins
Serves: 24
Delicious, soft and chewy cream cheese cookies with fresh strawberries and white chocolate chunks.
Ingredients
- 1¼ cup all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- ¼ cup unsalted butter-softened
- 4 oz cream cheese-softened
- ¾ cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoons vanilla extract
- ¾ cup chopped fresh strawberries
- 2 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1-2 tablespoon flour
- 5 oz white chocolate-chopped
- sanding sugar
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 F and line pans with parchment paper.
- Pour fresh lemon juice over chopped strawberries, drain them after a few minutes.
- Whisk together 1¼ cup all-purpose flour, salt and baking powder and set aside.
- Beat butter with sugar and cream cheese until it’s light and fluffy.
- Add egg and vanilla and mix well.
- Gradually add flour mixture and mix until it’s well combined.
- Stir in chopped white chocolate.
- Sprinkle strawberries with 1-2 tablespoon flour, toss them until all strawberries are coated with thin layer of flour and then stir them really gently in the batter.
- Drop heaping tablespoon of batter onto pan leaving an inch space between.
- Set the cookies in the refrigerator for 5-10 minutes before baking.
- Sprinkle the cookies with sanding sugar if you want, but do not overdo it because they are sweet enough.
- Bake for 13-15 minutes( until the edges become golden brown).
- Let them cool a few minutes in the pan than transfer them to a wire racks to cool completely.
