Strawberry Shortcake Cookies: An easy recipe to make and serve any time of year, especially during the summer! Ready in minutes and using fresh strawberries make this cookie a light and refreshing treat that you and others will LOVE!
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Why You’ll Love This Delicious Cookie Recipe
Not only will you love the flavors in this cookie recipe but you’ll also love:
- How it uses everyday, simple ingredients that you probably already have on hand!
- It’s the goodness of strawberry shortcake but in cookie form!
- They’re ready in a pinch! Just a few minutes to mix together, bake, and then let cool off so you can add on the best parts… the whipped cream and strawberries!
- The cookies themselves are what you may have heard “gooey butter cookies”. I chose to combine “gooey butter” cookies with a “strawberry shortcake” topping instead of something like my sugar cookies because I wanted to kick things up a notch so the gooey center of these cookies combines with the strawberries and whipped cream to create something amazing!
- It’s a strawberry dessert! So many people make chocolate cookies, vanilla bread puddings, and more! But when you see something like these strawberry cheesecake cookies, strawberry chocolate chip muffins, or my strawberry brownies recipe, they’re REALLY hard to resist and it’s nice to have a change of pace in the dessert world!
Expert Tips
We did a little experiment while making these and baked one batch of these cookies on a regular ole baking sheet. THEN, we baked them on this silicone baking mat.
Guess which one made the bottoms of the cookies golden brown, and which one made the bottoms absolutely perfect? Yep, the silicone mat won the challenge and I totally encourage you to get one (or two or three) today. You can buy them on Amazon here: Silicone Baking Mat.
Recipe Ingredients:
It doesn’t take much to whip up these cookies and although there’s a full, printable recipe card at the bottom of this post, I want to give you a few helpful tips throughout this post!
Here’s what you’ll need:
- cream cheese softened
- butter, softened
- egg
- vanilla extract (pure vanilla extract, if you can!)
- white cake mix
- powdered sugar
- whipped cream topping (feel free to make it homemade or buy it at the store)
- sugared sliced strawberries (which means, slice your strawberries and then coat them in sugar!)
Tip: If you’re a fan of using canned whipped cream, know that it will quickly evaporate. So if you’re making a bunch of cookies, wait until the last minute before serving, to top with the cream.
BUT, if you’re using homemade whipped cream, you’re probably safer to do it a bit in advance. (It just may make your cookie a little soggy if it sits too long. Think, “Strawberry Shortcake,” when making these. Just like that dessert, you’d wait until right before serving to top it with the whipped cream and juicy strawberries.)
Using a Cake Mix for Cookies
What makes these cookies so stinking easy, is using a white cake mix. This omits the need for all purpose flour, extra dry ingredients, and more!
Know what’s really fun? Switching up the cake mix flavor and making different kinds of gooey butter cookies, like we did with the Chocolate Caramel Gooey Butter Cookies. So feel free to change things up, if you want to use a chocolate cake mix, almond pound cake recipe or even a funfetti cake mix for extra pizzaz!
How to Make Sugared Strawberries
For this recipe, you’ll need at least 24, quarter-size strawberries. (Slice a strawberry in to 4 slices.)
Place the strawberries in a bowl and combine strawberries with sugar. (Enough sugar to fully coat the strawberries and let sit for a few minutes.) You can do this before you start making the cookies and they’ll soak up the sugar perfectly before time to place on top of each cookie!
The sugar will help even the sourest strawberries, turn in to sweet strawberries!
Step by Step Directions
- First, heat oven to 350 degrees
- In a large bowl, mix together the cream cheese, butter, egg, vanilla, in a mixing bowl, using a stand mixer or hand mixer.
- Add in the cake mix.
- Refrigerate the cookie dough for 30 minutes so the dough is easier to work with.
- Pour the powdered sugar in to a small bowl, that you’ll roll the cookies in.
- Roll about a teaspoon of dough into a ball, (you can use a medium cookie scoop if you have one) and roll the balls of dough in to the powdered sugar, placing it on to a prepared baking sheet or a silicone mat. Repeat the process for the remaining batter.
- Bake at 350 for 12 minutes. Allow the cookies to cool on a wire rack before the next step.
- Top with whipped cream and strawberry slice, right before serving.
How to Store Leftover Cookies
If you DO happen to have leftover cookies, you’ll want to store them in an airtight container in the refrigerator.
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Strawberry Shortcake Gooey Butter Cookies
Ingredients
- 8 ounces cream cheese softened
- 1 stick butter softened
- 1 egg
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 box white cake mix
- 3/4 cup powdered sugar
- whipped cream topping
- sugared sliced strawberries enough to use 1/4 slice of strawberry on each cookie! (24 cookies)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350
- Mix together cream cheese, butter, egg, vanilla, in a mixing bowl.
- Add in the cake mix and mix together. Refrigerate for 30 minutes for a dough that's easier to work with.
- Pour powdered sugar in to a small bowl for rolling.
- Roll about a teaspoon of dough into balls, and roll the dough balls powdered sugar, placing them on to a greased cookie sheet or a
- Bake at 350 for 12 minutes. Allow cookies to cool.
- Top with whipped cream and strawberry slice, right before serving.
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