These Strawberry Crunch Cookies are a sweet trip down memory lane! Soft and buttery with a hint of vanilla, each cookie is topped with a strawberry crunch crumble. The coating on these cookies taste just like those classic ice cream bars. Made with freeze-dried strawberries and golden cookie crumbs, these nostalgic treats are a blend of fruity and creamy flavors in every bite.
Why I love these cookies
First they are easy to make and second, remind me of those strawberry crunch ice cream bars!
Other old-fashioned cookies you might enjoy are my small batch lemon crinkle cookies and classic peanut butter cookies. Oh and don’t forgot those butter cookies like Mom made from your childhood!
Ingredient and Tools You Need for Strawberry Crunch Cookies
Ingredients: You will need butter, brown and white sugar, egg , **freeze dried strawberries, flour, baking soda, salt, golden Oreo cookies, strawberry jello powder, and cream cheese.
**You can use strawberry extract in the cookies if you don’t have freeze dried strawberries.
Tools: You need a cookie sheet, parchment paper, measuring cups and spoons, mixing bowls of different sizes, large bag, mallet or rolling pin.
Recipe Tips
- Gather Ingredients: Gather all your ingredients at once and prepare equipment ahead of time. Make sure all your ingredients are at room temperature unless mentioned not to.
- Leave some pieces: When you put the freeze dried strawberries in the food processor, don’t over process them, leave a few larger pieces for taste.
- Press the crumbs: Really press a lot of the crumble mixture into the cookie. The dough ball should be about double with the crumble around it.
- More Cream Cheese taste: If you like more cream cheese taste to your topping, add less sugar.
Step-by-Step Photos: Strawberry Crunch Cookies
Below you’ll find a few photos for the Strawberry Crunch Cookies recipe to give you an idea of how things should look along the way.
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Strawberry Crunch Cookies
Ingredients
Recipe Directions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Line a quarter cookie sheet with parchment paper.
- In a medium bowl add butter and start to cream with a hand mixer. Add sugar and brown sugar and cream together for about 2 minutes. Add the egg and mix until well combined.
- Add the freeze dried strawberries to a small food processor and grind them to almost a powder, you can leave some small pieces. Set aside.
- In another medium bowl add flour, baking soda and salt and whisk together. Add freeze dried strawberry powder and whisk.
- Add flour mixture to the bowl with butter mixture and mix together with a wooden spoon just until the flour is mixed in.
- Put the golden oreos in a ziploc bag and crush with a mallet or rolling pin. Pour into a large shallow bowl or pie plate and sprinkle jello mix over cookies and stir in with a fork. Melt butter and pour over crushed cookies. Stir everything together.
- Scoop cookie dough with a cookie scoop and roll into a ball and roll through the strawberry crunch mixture, pressing the mixture into the cookie. Place on the cookie sheets, leaving space between each cookie. Bake cookies for 12-14 minutes. Remove cookies from the oven and let them cool.
- In a small bowl, add cream cheese, butter, sugar and vanilla and mix together until smooth. Put into a piping bag and top cookies. Enjoy!!