Strawberry Cookies
- Nutrition Facts
- Calories: 256
- Protein: 4
- Fats: 9
- Carbohydrates: 38
Can you imagine a summer without strawberry? You may be used to eat fresh strawberries with sour cream or usual one. The strawberry confiture, marmalade or jam are very popular. But we don't usually use strawberries in bakery! For example, the recipe of strawberry cookie which HozOboz has prepare for you today, can give you delicious soft cookies. Moreover, it’s easy to cook because the recipe is concise and clear, and the ingredients to prepare it are available in every supermarket. Now, some interesting facts and we’re ready to start cooking these beautiful cookies with scent of strawberries.
Some important facts from the history
Cookies are one of the most ancient desserts in the history of culinary arts. These small pieces of bakery is usually said to have a history of more than ten thousand years. It’s known that cookies were not even sweet at first. The obvious reason for this was that people began to use sugar much later. The Indians were first to learn how to extract it from the sugar cane. Since most of the Indian territory was under the British control, they were the first to discover sugar. Then britons brought it to Europe.
Most of the countries and regions have their own recipes of preparing cookies of any kind. They use various flour (wheat, maize, rice, etc.), shape them differently and cover it with diverse kinds of glaze. The only thing that unites the production of cookies around the world is the easiness of the instructions and recipes of these desserts. It’s no accident that every housewife can cook it at home and make her family happy. The cookies were fist mentioned in the ancient Persian writing of sixth century BC. Persia was well-known at that time for their delicious pastries made of rice flour. Especially popular were the solid cookies because it was very convenient to carry them in a bag while traveling.
The spread of different cookies, biscuits and waffle recipes was fostered by the trade relations of various countries, the wars, and traveling of particular merchants. The people got to know new recipes, changed something invented new names etc. The range of cookies today is enormous and impressive. Nobody knows for sure how many kinds of them exist. But you can have doubt that this [easy recipe for strawberry cookies] is definitely one of the best.
What advantages do you get from consuming cookies?
The first advantage is cookies always make you happy. At least it works with the cookies we’re going to make today. The scientists claim that you don't have to exclude pastries from your daily diet if you want to keep fit. However, you should remember that the best time to eat it is before noon. You should be careful with cookies and other pastries after lunch.
What ingredients do you need to cook it?
- 2 cups of heat flour -
- 2 cups of fresh strawberries
- A tablespoon of lemon juice
- 8 tablespoons of sugar
- 2 teaspoons of baking powder
- ½ teaspoon of salt
- 2/3 cup of cream
- 100 grams of butter
Follow this simple steps to make your strawberry cookies:
- To start with, control all the ingredients you need to have: flour, butter, cream, strawberries, sugar, baking powder, salt and lemon juice (you won’t see it on the picture now, but it will appear later).
Before starting just take a look if you’ve got everything you need for your cookies.
- Add sugar and baking powder to the flour and mix them all. By the way, you may use one teaspoon of baking soda instead of two teaspoons of baking powder, and you’ll get thicker dough.
Whip the following ingredients in the deep bowl: flour, sugar, salt and baking powder or soda.
- Add butter now. Of the butter is soft, the mixing process will go much faster and we will get the dough of necessary consistency. Just as you see on the picture.
Add some soft butter.
- Pour the cream in the bowl with dough. You may use 10% or 20% fat cream. In this case, we used 10% one.
Now add some cream and choose the fat percentage you like.
- Whip everything thoroughly. Now you have sticky and dense dough.
All the contents should be mixed well.
- Wash strawberries and cut it into small pieces. Then sprinkle them with lemon juice.
Cut fresh strawberries and sprinkle them with juice.
- Add strawberries to the dough and mix it carefully. As you see, the dough quickly turns rose.
Add the pieces of strawberry to the dough.
- Preheat the oven to 350F. Cover the over-tray with parchment and lay out the pieces of dough on it using tablespoon (better use spoon for ice cream).
Using the tablespoon, lay out the dough on the over-tray.
- Keep it in the oven for 25 minutes. You should always remember that one oven differs from another, so watch the cookies after nearly 20 minutes.
Bake the cookies for 20-25 minutes at 350F.
- Now we have beautiful, soft and yummy strawberry cookies. Bon Appetite!
As a result, you cookies will look like those on the picture.
So, here we got our strawberry cookies with photos attached. Do you agree that it doesn't take much time to cook it? And it’s very easy as well. This recipe is a perfect option when you have uninvited guests coming and you don’t know what to serve on your table. You should definitely cook this beautiful cookies - your loved ones and friends will enjoy it!
