"Chocolate Covered Strawberry" Cookies

Chocolate covered strawberries are my favorite. I love them. I make them all the time in the summer when strawberries are in season. It's really fun to play around with dark and white chocolate and make different designs, too. I made a huge platter of them for a graduation party last summer.

Anyway, right now we are nearing the end of the semester! I am on a mission to use up every ingredient in my pantry and as a result I have been baking lots of cookies. I made these delicious cookies last weekend for the Boston Marathon. They are chocolate drop cookies with white chocolate chips and dried strawberries. The result is the cookie version of a chocolate covered strawberry!

These are super easy to make. I made sure to get a lot of different sized bits of strawberries in the dough, including what was basically strawberry powder. This made sure the strawberry flavor was throughout the entire cookie.

Have fun with these cookies! I think they'd be fun with some semisweet chocolate chips mixed in as well :).

"Chocolate Covered Strawberry" Cookies

Ingredients

2 1/4 cup AP flour

1/2 cup cocoa powder

1 t baking soda

1/2 t salt

1 cup unsalted butter (room temperature)

1 cup brown sugar (packed)

3/4 cup sugar

1 t vanilla

2 eggs

1 cup white chocolate chips

1 cup freeze dried strawberries (broken into chocolate chip-sized pieces)

Instructions

1. Whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl.
2. Cream the butter and sugars together until smooth. Beat in eggs and vanilla until light and fluffy.
3. Gradually beat in flour mixture. Fold in white chocolate chips and strawberries
4. Form 2 tablespoons of dough into a ball and set on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Repeat with the rest of the dough, making sure they are at least 2 inches apart.
5. Bake for 8-10 minutes at 350 or until puffed. Cool on baking sheets for 5 minutes and then remove to wire racks.
6. Eat.