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Home » Cookies » Soft Sugar Cookies with Strawberry Frosting

Soft Sugar Cookies with Strawberry Frosting

Published: Apr 4, 2022 · Modified: May 16, 2022 by Allison · 22 Comments

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Soft-baked sugar cookies topped with a vibrant and flavorful strawberry frosting. The perfect spring and summer cookie that is not only beautiful, but delicious, too.

Get ready to sink your teeth into these thick and soft cookies. No fake colors or flavors, real strawberries in every bite.

Closeup of sugar cookies topped with pink strawberry frosting.

We took our Frosted Sugar Cookies and topped them with our Strawberry Buttercream Frosting making this a mashup of two of our favorite recipes. You’ll love these tasty sugar cookies!

Looking for another amazing cookie recipe? Try our Raspberry Crumble Cookies, too!

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Stack of two sugar cookies topped with pink strawberry frosting.

These cookies are

  • Soft and tender. They practically melt in your mouth!
  • Flavored with vanilla and a touch of almond extract (our secret ingredient).
  • Topped with real strawberry frosting.
  • Better than store bought.
  • Easy! The cookie dough comes together in minutes, no chill time required.

Recipe overview

Cookies:

  1. Cream butter and sugar. 
  2. Add eggs, sour cream, and extracts. 
  3. Combine dry ingredients in another bowl.
  4. Add dry to the wet ingredients. 
  5. Allow the dough to rest at room temperature for 5 minutes. 
  6. Scoop into balls and bake.
Collage of how to make sugar cookies (dough in a glass bowl and rolled in balls on a baking sheet).

Frosting:

Start by grinding the freeze dried strawberries into powder. Pour it through a fine mesh sieve and discard the seeds. You will be left with a fine pinkish/red powder that will add tons of strawberry flavor to the frosting.

Using a hand mixer or stand mixer, beat butter until smooth, add powdered sugar and beat until combined.

Butter and powdered sugar in a white bowl.

Add the freeze dried strawberry powder, jam, vanilla, and milk/strawberry puree.

Butter, powdered sugar, jam, and freeze dried strawberries in a white bowl.

Beat until smooth and combined.

Strawberry frosting in a white bowl

Ingredient spotlight: freeze dried strawberries

Freeze dried strawberries are strawberries that have low water content and are dried out and crispy. They can be found on the dried fruit aisle (I get mine at Target or Whole Foods). Note: they are not dried strawberries which are soft and chewy (like a raisin).

Because they are dry they allow us to add a deep, more intense strawberry flavor without adding too much moisture which could make the frosting thin and runny.

Pulse the freeze dried strawberries in a food processor or blender until ground into a fine powder.

Freeze dried strawberries in a white bowl.

Serving and storage

Serving: These cookies are best served at cool room temperature.

Storage: Store cookies tightly covered  in the refrigerator for up to 3 days. Let sit at cool room temperature for 30 minutes or so before serving.

Closeup of sugar cookie topped with pink frosting.

More strawberry recipes

  • Strawberry Muffins
  • Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp
  • Strawberry Cupcakes
  • Strawberry Margarita

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Recipe

Closeup of sugar cookie topped with pink frosting.

Soft Sugar Cookies with Strawberry Frosting

Soft-baked sugar cookies topped with a vibrant and flavorful strawberry frosting. The perfect spring and summer cookie that is not only beautiful, but delicious, too.
4.75 from 8 votes
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Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 40 minutes
Servings: 20
Calories: 348kcal
Author: Allison – Celebrating Sweets

Ingredients

Cookies:

  • ¾ cup unsalted butter, softened to cool room temperature
  • 1 ⅓ cups granulated sugar
  • 1 ¾ teaspoons pure vanilla extract
  • ½ teaspoon pure almond extract
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 large egg yolk
  • ¼ cup full fat sour cream
  • 2 ½ cups all purpose flour
  • 1 heaping tablespoon cornstarch
  • ¾ teaspoon baking powder
  • ¼ teaspoon baking soda
  • ¼ teaspoon salt

Frosting:

  • ¾ cup freeze dried strawberries
  • ¾ cup unsalted butter, softened to cool room temperature
  • 3 cups powdered sugar, plus more if needed
  • 2 teaspoons milk, plus more if needed
  • ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • 1 generous tablespoon strawberry jam
  • 2 tablespoons milk OR 5-8 strawberries*, plus more, if needed
  • optional garnishes: sliced strawberries or sprinkle with freeze dried strawberry powder

Instructions

Cookies:

  • Preheat oven to 375°F. Line baking sheets with parchment paper (this helps the cookies from spreading).
  • Using a hand mixer, or stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat butter and sugar for 2 minutes, until light and creamy. Add extracts, egg, egg yolk, and sour cream and beat until combined, scraping the sides of the bowl as necessary. The mixture might look a little curdled, that’s ok.
  • In a separate bowl, combine flour, cornstarch, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Slowly add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and beat until combined.
  • Allow the dough to sit at room temperature for 5 minutes. Scoop the dough into 2-tablespoon balls (briefly rolling them in your hands, if necessary, to make the dough balls smooth). Place the dough balls a couple inches apart on the prepared baking sheets.
  • Bake for 9-11 minutes (see note), until the edges are set and the center is still slightly underdone. The cookies should still be light in color, not brown. Place the baking sheets on wire racks to cool completely; the cookies will firm up once cool.

Frosting:

  • In a small food processor, blend freeze dried strawberries until they turn into powder. Pour the powder into a fine mesh sieve, discarding the solids and seeds, keeping the fine powder that came through the sieve. Set the powder aside, you should have a scant ¼ cup.
  • With a hand mixer, or stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat butter until smooth and creamy, scraping down the sides of the bowl and the beater as necessary. Add the powdered sugar, ½ a cup at a time, beating until combined. 
  • Add freeze dried strawberry powder, vanilla extract, jam, and either 2 tablespoons of milk OR 2 tablespoons strawberry puree. Beat on medium speed until fully combined, being sure to scrape down the sides of the bowl and beater as needed. If necessary, adjust the consistency by adding more powdered sugar to thicken, or more milk or strawberry puree to thin it out.

Notes

Watch the cookies closely during the last few minutes of bake time. Depending on the size of your cookie dough balls and your exact oven temp (some ovens run a bit warmer or cooler than stated on the display) you might need to to adjust the bake time by a couple minutes in either direction. 
*To use fresh strawberry puree instead of milk to thin out the frosting, add 5-8 strawberries to the food processor or blender (after using it for the freeze dried strawberries). Process the fresh strawberries until pureed. You’ll need 2-3 tablespoons of fresh strawberry puree. 

Nutrition

Calories: 348kcal | Carbohydrates: 52g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 15g | Saturated Fat: 9g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 4g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 56mg | Sodium: 53mg | Potassium: 168mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 37g | Vitamin A: 462IU | Vitamin C: 108mg | Calcium: 24mg | Iron: 3mg

Nutritional Information is an estimate based on third-party calculations and may vary based on products used and serving sizes.

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  1. Shann Baggett

    July 07, 2022 at 8:11 am

    What do you mean freeze dried? Can you use fresh instead?

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    • Allison

      July 07, 2022 at 10:15 am

      Freeze dried strawberries are strawberries that have low water content and are dried out and crispy. They can be found on the dried fruit aisle (I get mine at Target or Whole Foods). Note: they are not dried strawberries which are soft and chewy (like a raisin). They create a more intense strawberry flavor without adding all the water content that fresh strawberries add.

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