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Soft and chewy, these Strawberry Sprinkle Cookies are made with just 8 ingredients. Each one is full of strawberry flavor and covered with sprinkles for a fun sweet treat for any occasion – not to mention they’re a quick & easy Valentine’s Day dessert!
If you’re looking for a sweet fix in the form of a cookie, these Strawberry Sprinkle Cookies are perfect. Seriously, I could not stop eating them!
Strawberry has always been a favorite flavor of mine – whether a natural strawberry flavor or flavored with extract or something. These cookies use strawberry extract to add flavor and they’re amazing.
Sprinkle cookies are usually made with a sugar cookie base and while I didn’t follow that exactly, these strawberry cookies do have a sweet, soft, and chewy base. And it doesn’t even need to chill! There are also just 8 ingredients. That’s how easy these strawberry cookies are to make!
Bake the cookies, let them cool, and dig in! They are SO good! SO soft and full of flavor – you seriously will eat so many before you even know it. I’m obsessed!
What You’ll Need
There are just 8 ingredients in this easy cookie recipe!
- All-purpose flour
- Sugar
- Baking powder – Helps achieve the soft, fluffy texture.
- Unsalted butter – It should be melted and then slightly cooled. Melted butter is key to these soft and chewy cookies.
- Eggs – Add structure to the cookies and help to keep them moist.
- Strawberry extract – Gives these cookies their strawberry flavor.
- Pink gel icing – Gives the cookies their pink color. You can also use red.
- Sprinkles – I used pink and white sprinkles for a festive touch.
There are just a few steps to making these soft strawberry cookies!
- Make the dough. Whisk the dry ingredients in bowl and set aside. Combine the melted butter, eggs, and strawberry extract. Add to the dry ingredients and beat until combined. Add the pink icing color.
- Coat in sprinkles. Roll tablespoon-sized balls of cookie dough into the sprinkles.
- Bake. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes. The cookies will look soft. Allow to cool on the baking sheets for 5 minutes then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
Tips for Success
For some perfectly soft strawberry cookies, keep these tips in mind.
- Do not overbake. The most important part of achieving soft strawberry cookies is removing them from the oven before they look completely baked. They’ll continue baking on the cookie sheet so it’s important to remove them before
- How to handle the sticky dough. This cookie dough is super sticky. I usually drop the dough into the sprinkles to coat it first, then shape it into a ball and roll it again in the sprinkles if necessary. You can also flour your hands.
- Make them seasonal. While the pink and white sprinkles make these perfect for Valentine’s Day, you can switch up the sprinkles to hearts to make them even more festive or even use red color instead of pink to make them perfect for Christmas.
Mix-Ins and Variations
Here are just a few ideas to make this easy Valentine’s Day cookie recipe your own.
- Add some vanilla or almond extract. For a flavor to complement the strawberry, add in a 1/2 teaspoon or 1 teaspoon of vanilla or almond extract.
- Add some chocolate chips. Mini chocolate chips and white chocolate chips both add a nice chocolatey touch to the dessert.
- Stir in some dried strawberries. For an extra strawberry twist, stir in some chopped pieces of dried strawberries.
Yes, these sprinkle cookies freeze well. Allow them to cool completely then transfer to an airtight container or ziploc bag. Thaw in the fridge. I love to just pull one or two out whenever I’m craving a sweet strawberry treat.
How to Store
You can enjoy these fluffy strawberry cookies for up to a week as long as you store them in an airtight container. Mine never last that long though. Oops!
More Strawberry Recipes:
- Strawberry Upside Down Cake
- Like Box Mix but Better Strawberry Cake
- Homemade Strawberry Frosting
- No Bake Strawberry Cheesecake
- Strawberry Shortcake Trifle
Watch How To Make Them
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- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 35-40 Cookies
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
Description
Soft and chewy, these Strawberry Sprinkle Cookies are made with just 8 ingredients. Each one is full of strawberry flavor and covered with sprinkles for a fun sweet treat for any occasion – not to mention a quick & easy Valentine’s Day dessert!
Ingredients
- 3 cups (390g) all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 cups (310g) sugar
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 6 tbsp (84g) unsalted butter, melted and slightly cooled
- 3 large eggs, room temperature
- 2 tsp strawberry extract
- Pink gel icing color
- Pink sprinkles
- White sprinkles
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C). Line baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats. Set aside.
- Whisk the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt together in a large bowl. Set aside.
- Combine the melted butter, eggs and strawberry extract.
- Pour into the dry ingredients and beat until combined on medium-high speed. The mixture may seem dry at first, but will come together as you continue to mix.
- Stir in the pink icing color to achieve your desired shade of pink.
- Create tablespoon sized balls of the cookie dough. Gently roll into a ball, then roll each ball in sprinkles to coat. The dough will be sticky. You can flour your hands, or just drop the dough into the sprinkles and coat it, then shape into a ball.
- Bake cookies for 8-10 minutes. The cookies will slightly spread and the centers will look soft. Don’t overtake.
- Remove from the oven and allow to cool on baking sheets for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Cookies will stay fresh in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 1 week.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 Cookie
- Calories: 84
- Sugar: 7.7 g
- Sodium: 35.2 mg
- Fat: 2.3 g
- Carbohydrates: 15.1 g
- Protein: 1.5 g
- Cholesterol: 18.5 mg
Enjoy!
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Do these cookies freeze well?
I haven’t tried it. I would image the cookie itself would be fine. The sprinkles might bleed though. It’d probably be best to thaw them in the fridge, if you want to try it, to keep more condensation from forming.
Easy, delicious and cute
Can you reduce the sugar in this recipe? ( P.S. Love this recipeeeeeeee!!!! )
Lindsay, I’m wondering if you have any suggestions on an alternate flavoring source to the strawberry extract? Is there a strawberry blend puree that we could make or use instead of having to use the extract? My grandson loves strawberries and sprinkles! This is a cookie that I would love to make with him and he would enjoy for sure! I tried many of your recipes over the holidays to upgrade some of my previous Christmas cookie recipes and they were definite improvements! I’ll try to go to each cookie recipe specifically and leave comments as to what was better and which ones everyone loved. Thank you for your recipes and videos. I’ll continue to watch and be subscribed for a very long time thank youn
I’m so glad to hear you’ve enjoyed the recipes! As for an alternative for the strawberry extract in this recipe, it would be difficult to use a fruit purée of some kind. That would add a lot more moisture to the cookies so you’d have to balance it out with additional dry ingredients which is going to really affect the texture and flavor of the cookie.
Oh my Goodness! How did I not see this post until now?!
I am so sorry that you all had to go through that! I hope that Ashton is home now and all are doing well! I am so happy for you, that your dream of becoming a mother is a reality. I wish nothing but health and happiness to you and your family!
Hi Katrina! Thank you! 🙂 Ashton is home now and doing very well. We are all settling in. I hope you’re well!
Like other readers I have been checking frequently and praying for the whole family. So happy to read the news and join you in praising Him! Both my grandma and my son have Feb 2 birthdays; that’s good company! Such a special time! I will never stop being amazed how much one little person changed EVERYTHING. My heart changed the most and has never stopped giving thanks for the blessing!
Thank you! 🙂 It really has been amazing how literally EVERYTHING changes! It’s nutty but I’m so thankful for our little blessings.
Congratulations Mommy and Daddy! I have been out from having surgery Feb 2 and have been checking for updates since I got back…just saw this post….Feb 2 was also my grandma’s birthday (she would have been 95) so it’s a special day for sure! I love the names you picked and can’t wait to see pictures. Keeping all of you in my prayers.
Thanks so much Teija! I hope things went well with your surgery and recovery as well!
Congratulations! What a dream come true! I am so happy to see y’all receive these two beautiful blessings!
Thanks so much Emily!
Congratulations!!! Keeping all four of you in my prayers.
Thank you for sharing.
Thank you so much!
Congratulations Lindsay on your little bundles of joy. Hoping that by the time you read this, Ashton will be home. Lots of love and blessings to you all. xxx
Thanks Lynne! Ashton is home now and doing well. 🙂
Congratulations! My twin boys are almost 7 now, and it’s crazy how fast the time goes as you just try to survive those first few weeks and months. Both of mine were in the NICU for 2-3 weeks after being born early, but both are great now, and I’m sure yours will be too. Hang in there and try to enjoy them even through the exhaustion!
Thanks Jill! It’s definitely a bit of survival mode right now, but we are loving them. 🙂 So sweet.
God’s Blessings to you and your little family! You and the Hubs are going to nail this! And twins AND cookies?! You are Super Mom already!
Haha, thanks Vickie!
Congratulations!! And get some rest when you can! I look forward to seeing pictures of your sweet babies. God bless you and your family.
Thank you, Joanne!
CONGRATULATIONS !!!!
Thank you!
Congratulations! So happy for you and your family1 I will continue to pray for you all, especially little Ashton and his heart. Verna
Thank you Verna! Ashton is home now and doing well!
May God continue to bless your little family. I am so happy for all of you. I will be praying for little Ashton to be well and come home soon. I am so proud of you for this journey you have taken. You have such grace and love that comes through in your words and in your wonderful foods. Thank you for all you do. Congratulations and be well…all of you
Thanks so much Melissa! Ashton is home and doing well. 🙂