Today on Sugar Spun Run we’ll be making strawberry cookies.
Hey Sugar Spun Bakers, Sam here! And today, I have another carefully tested,
well researched, and perfected recipe to share.
We are making strawberry cookies with an intense,
bright, strawberry flavor. I think you're going to love it,
so let's go ahead and get started. Now before we begin,
you will want to get your oven preheating to three hundred and fifty degrees Fahrenheit.
Now to flavor these cookies naturally,
I am going to be using freeze dried strawberries.
I found that these work the best to get a really,
really potent strawberry flavor. It's also the easiest way to make these cookies
as opposed to fresh strawberries,
which make things a lot more complicated. I have two
and a half cups of freeze dried strawberries here,
which is just a little bit over one and a half ounces.
I am going to need to pulverize these into very,
very fine powder. So you could do this in a food processor.
I'm just going to use my little mini food processor here,
blitzes system up nicely, but I will have to do it in two batches.
This thing is great and so handy. I use it in so many recipes.
I will link to it in the recipe cart in case you're interested.
Fun little multi tool. You can see this is actually a very, very fine powder,
that's exactly what we want. I'm goning to drop this into a bowl, and then we'll process the rest of it.
Alright, we'll add this to our bowl. However,
not all of it is going to go into the cookies.
Here I have a fourth cup of granulated sugar,
which I have measured out to roll the cookies through before I bake them.
I'm just going to measure out a tablespoon of this strawberry powder,
add it in with the sugar,
and we'll set that aside because we'll need it a bit later on in the recipe.
Alright, we'll need this in a moment. But first, we're going to grab a large mixing bowl.
And to this, we'll add one cup of softened, unsalted butter.
And a cup of granulated sugar,
and we are going to cream these ingredients together.
Now you could do this with a stand mixer if you'd like,
but today I am going to just be using my electric hand mixer.
Alright, once the butter and sugar are well creamed,
we will add our strawberry powder. Get all of that in there.
And we'll stir this in as well. Go on low speed first
so you don't send strawberry powder flying because it's not fun to inhale that.
Okay, so right now, you might be thinking, “Oh, these—this batter looks great.
It's such a beautiful pink color that's going to look just lovely once it's baked.”
I want to tell you upfront that you're not going to get a really beautiful pink color
unless you add artificial food coloring.
You do not have to, totally a personal choice,
but if you don't add food coloring, your cookie is going to end up a very natural looking color.
Make sure you guys get a good look at that color.
Again, it's not terrible. The cookie’s still going to taste delicious,
but if you're looking for a bright pink, you're going to want to add some food coloring.
I'm going to add some here. I'm just using electric pink because it's what I have on hand.
Soft pink color would also work nicely.
And I'm just going to add a couple drops because I do want a vibrant pink color.
I'm very particular about when I choose to use food coloring or not.
So again, it's a personal preference. Oftentimes
if I'm making these and wanna give them to my kids, I'll leave the food coloring out,
so do whatever works best for you and the occasion that you're making these for.
I'll stir this in now. And if I'm still not happy with the color after I've added the flour,
I may add a little bit more. Now I'm going to stir in one large egg.
Mix this in until it's combined.
And we'll set this aside and grab a separate mixing bowl for our dry ingredients.
We'll start with all purpose flour. This is one and three fourths cup.
Next, we'll add three fourths teaspoon of table salt and just a half teaspoon of baking soda.
Whisk these together until they're nicely combined.
And we'll gradually add these to our strawberry mixture and stir until it's completely combined.
You may notice, I don't add vanilla extract to this cookie recipe.
You can if you would like to,
but, personally, I found it took away from the bright fresh strawberry flavor so I opt not to.
Last bit of flour. Okay,
ley me grab a spatula and let's scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl.
I just wanna make sure there's no lingering pockets of flour hiding in here anywhere.
And I am pretty pleased with the color of this dough,
so I'm not going to add any more food coloring. Alright,
so we can just about begin scooping our cookie dough,
so I grabbed a baking sheet here. I also have one last order of business to attend to
and that is our sugar.
If you recall, we have one fourth cup of granulated sugar here with
our one tablespoon of freeze dried strawberries.
We're just gonna whisk these together. What in the world happened to my whisk?
Hmm…guess it got some abuse in my utensil drawer.
And this just adds that final layer of strawberry flavor to the cookies.
I am going to be using my one and a half tablespoon cookie scoop.
Drop that into my hand. I'm doing the level scoops.
I roll it into a ball, roll it through the sugar,
and we'll space the cookies at least two inches apart because they will spread in the oven.
Now we'll take these over to our preheated oven where they're going to need to bake
for about eleven minutes.
So once the cookies have finished baking,
you're going to either let them cool completely on the baking sheet
or let them cool for several minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
And that is how you make these fun strawberry cookies.
I really hope you enjoy today's recipe. And if you try this one,
please leave me a comment. Let me know what you think.
I always love hearing from you. Thank you so much for watching,
and I'll see you next time. Alright, I had Luke show up for this,
so, Luke, you are going to hold the one without food coloring. ‘Kay.
Are you ready? Let's taste test them.
What do you think? Good. You look like it?
Can you see my Celsius?
Yeah. *laughs*
My gosh.
I was worried about that happening.
Mhmm. What’s it taste like?
Um, brown sugar.
Does it taste like strawberry? Uh uh.
Try a bite of mine.
Yours tastes like strawberry.
That's interesting.
The food coloring makes a difference in terms of flavor, mentally.
Is there a small child eating a banana behind me?