Strawberry Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting
Strawberry cookies with cream cheese frosting are sweet, fruity, and topped with rich, tangy icing that everyone loves. Perfect for parties or everyday treats, these colorful cookies are easy to make and impossible to resist!
Servings: 9
Calories: 538kcal
Ingredients
- Cookies
- 2 large eggs
- ¼ cup vegetable oil
- 1 box strawberry cake mix
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ cup strawberries chopped
- Cream Cheese Frosting
- 8 ounces cream cheese softened
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2½ cups powdered sugar
- Topping
- 6 strawberries sliced
Instructions
Cookies
- Preheat the oven to 325°F, and prepare 2 baking sheets with parchment paper. Set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine the eggs and vegetable oil. Whisk until combined.
- In a separate small mixing bowl, whisk together the strawberry cake mix and baking powder until completely combined.
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients. Mix with a spoon until completely combined, and a thick batter forms. Fold in the chopped strawberries. Using an ice cream scoop, scoop 6 dough balls onto each cookie sheet.
- Bake for 15 to 20 minutes. When the cookies begin to brown, remove immediately.
- Allow cookies to cool completely before frosting.
Cream Cheese Frosting
- In a large mixing bowl, beat the cream cheese, butter, and vanilla extract until smooth and creamy. Add the powdered sugar a little bit at a time and mix until completely combined.
- Transfer the frosting to a piping bag, and frost each cookie. Top with crumbs from a crushed cookie, and sliced strawberries.
Notes
- You are only adding the cake mix, not the ingredients called for on the box. You will replace those additions with the baking powder, oil, and eggs listed above.
- Oven temperatures vary and may need to be recalibrated periodically to ensure they are accurate. Make sure to check your cookies at the lower end of the recommended baking time.
- Make sure the cream cheese is at room temperature, so you don’t end up with lumps in your cream cheese mixture.
- You can also make these as sandwich cookies with the frosting on the inside.
Nutrition
Calories: 538kcal | Carbohydrates: 75g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 25g | Saturated Fat: 11g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 4g | Monounsaturated Fat: 5g | Trans Fat: 0.2g | Cholesterol: 75mg | Sodium: 419mg | Potassium: 164mg | Fiber: 0.3g | Sugar: 58g | Vitamin A: 549IU | Vitamin C: 9mg | Calcium: 162mg | Iron: 1mg