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Frosted Strawberry Cookies
Frosted Strawberry Cookies
"Frosted Strawberry Cookies made by adding fresh strawberries to a simple sugar cookie dough. No rolling out or chilling necessary! Just bake and top with my amazing strawberry buttercream frosting. Easy Strawberry Cookies piped with a super simple pink rose, so they taste incredible and they’re pretty too! Frosted Strawberry Cookies are one of my favorite cookies ever! They’re soft, perfectly sweet and everyone goes crazy over the fresh strawberry buttercream frosting on top. It’s absolutely my favorite strawberry frosting ever. I love that these strawberry cookies are so easy to make too- no rolling or chilling required! You can literally just make the dough, scoop it on the baking sheet and bake right away. They cool quickly and you’re welcome to just frost with a knife, or you can make the darling pink strawberry rosettes on top of each cookie like I did. It’s fast and easy, I promise! I’m not a cake decorator by any means and I was able to frost each cookie really fast and they looked like darling pink roses when I was done!"
NotesThe key to getting the bright, fresh strawberry flavor in these cookies is to first make a strawberry puree, then reduce it. This process boils out a lot of the water in the strawberries and leaves us with an intense strawberry puree that we can then use in the cookie recipe and strawberry frosting. If you just use regular strawberry puree, you will end up with a soupy mess for both the cookies and frosting. No one wants to eat a soupy strawberry mess!
To make the pureed strawberry reduction, all you need to do is first wash, core and slice 12-15 strawberries. Puree the strawberry pieces using an immersion blender or food processor. Pour strawberry puree in a small saucepan and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium low and boil for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. Mixture will reduce by half- before reducing mine measured 1 1/2 cups, then after reducing I had 3/4 cups. Cool puree in the fridge or freezer and proceed with Strawberry Cookie recipe.
This process takes about 30 minutes total and can be done up to a week ahead of time.
Serves24
Cooking Time10 min
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 cup reduced strawberry puree**
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 cups flour
- FROSTING:
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Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
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Cream together butter and sugar. Add egg, vanilla, sour cream and 1/4 cup strawberry puree.
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Gently whisk together dry ingredients in a separate bowl.
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Add dry ingredients to butter mixture and mix to combine.
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Scoop out 1.5 TBSP of dough and place on parchment lined cookie sheet.You can use a medium cookie scoop to make this process faster.
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Bake at 375 for 10 minutes. Cool fully before frosting.
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FROSTING:
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Whisk butter for 30 seconds with a mixer. Add in strawberry puree and 1 cup powdered sugar. Add in vanilla and remaining powdered sugar, 1 cup at a time, until you've reached your desired consistency.
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Transfer frosting to a piping bag with a closed star tip- I used a Wilton 2D. Begin piping in a tight circle in the middle of the cookie. Continue piping frosting in a circular motion until you reach the outside of the cookie. Frosting will set but I recommend not stacking cookies that have been frosted with a rosette so that you don't squish them. Cookies frosted normally can be stacked though!
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