Super soft and chewy sugar cookies are topped with cream cheese frosting and sugared + diced strawberries. It’s the most refreshing cookie you’ll ever have, and it’s easy as pie … I mean cookies. 😉
Sugar cookies are truly one of the most mouthwatering and buttery members of the cookie family. When frosted and topped with fruit, it’s reminiscent of a strawberry shortcake with possibly the best base ever (sorry angel food cake, it’s nothing personal). These soft and chewy sugar cookies are sure to be a favorite that you make again and again.
What you’ll need to make these soft and chewy sugar cookies:
Salted butter
Granulated sugar
Large eggs
Baking soda
Salt
Pure vanilla extract
All purpose flour
Cream cheese
Powdered sugar
Fresh strawberries
The Cookies
These soft and buttery drops of goodness are a cinch to bake up. You do not need to chill the dough, and the little balls are rolled in granulated sugar for an even more scrumptious finish. The are cooled and then topped with frosting and fruit. I used a small cookie scoop, though a larger one would work too if you want oversized cookies. Just bake them 1-2 minutes longer, keeping an eye on them so they don’t burn.
The Frosting
The only possible way to improve upon a cookie is to frost it. True story. This cream cheese frosting in simple and amazing. It boasts only three ingredients, and is perfectly smooth and flavorful.
The Fruit
I love strawberries on these cookies, but you could absolutely substitute your favorite fruit! Blueberries, raspberries, sliced peaches, or sliced bananas would be so good as a topper.
The Dietary Substitutes
I love providing gluten and dairy free substitutions so that those with alternate dietary needs can enjoy my recipes to their fullest! These are subs that I have either use and continue to stock in my own home, or that have come highly recommended from others. I want your baking experience to be the best it can be, and avoiding gluten or dairy shouldn’t hinder that process in the slightest.
As always, here is a list of tried and true dietary substitutes, so that you can enjoy this recipe without the additions of gluten or dairy:
Bob’s Red Mill 1:1 Gluten Free Baking Flour is a wonderful all-purpose sub, and it’s cup for cup, so use the same measurements as you would all-purpose flour.
Miyokos Butter is a plant based brick that closely resembles dairy butter not only in its look, but it’s taste as well. It melts, browns, and spreads just like real butter, and truly is a fantastic substitute in this recipe. Use it as a 1:1 ratio sub, same as the flour, so the recipe measurements will not change. Miyokos also makes a wonderful cream cheese that would be an excellent in the frosting.
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You might also like my Brownie Pizza with Chocolate Buttercream!
Happy Baking!
XO,
Heather
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Soft and Chewy Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup, 2 sticks, salted butter, softened
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 ⅓ cup all purpose flour
- 4 oz cream cheese, softened
- ½ cup, 1 stick, salted butter, softened
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- Strawberries, sliced, for topping
- Granulated sugar, for rolling
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375° F.
- In a standing mixer or by hand, combine butter and sugar and cream until light and fluffy, about 30 seconds. Add both eggs and mix until throughly combined, another 30 seconds. Add baking soda, salt, vanilla, and flour. Mix until just combined. Dough should be soft but not sticky.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes, or until golden on the edges.
- While cookies cool, mix up the frosting. By standing mixer or hand mixer, combine ingredients and mix until smooth.
- Dice 2 cups strawberries into small pieces and toss in about 2 tablespoon of granulated sugar.
- Pipe or spread frosting onto cooled cookies. Spoon prepared strawberries onto each cookie, as much as you’d like! Only spoon fruit onto the cookies you will serve that day. Store leftover berries covered in the refrigerator. Store leftover frosted cookies in a covered container at room temperature. Enjoy!
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