Ingredients
1 1/2 cups finely diced fresh strawberries
1 teaspoon vanilla bean paste or vanilla extract
2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder (I always use aluminum-free)
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt (I prefer diamond brand)
6 tablespoons cold butter, cut into small pieces
2/3 cup cold heavy cream (you might need a tiny bit more depending on your flour and how humid it is)
Coarse sugar for sprinkling
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Line two 13 x 18 inch rimmed baking sheet with parchment or non stick liners. Set aside.
- Combine cream with vanilla in a spouted measuring cup. Set aside.
- Whisk flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt in a large mixing bowl.
- Add diced butter cubes and either with your fingers or a pastry cutter, cut the butter into the dry mixture until you have a coarse, crumby mixture with butter pieces no bigger than peas.
- While slowly stirring the dry ingredients, drizzle in the cream and vanilla mixture. When dough is almost coming together, stir in strawberries.
- You'll have a damp, clumpy dough. If you find you have a lot of dry flour left on the bottom of your bowl, add just a tiny bit more cream and gently toss and press the dough together. If you are a biscuit or scone maker, you're looking for a very similar dough to what you would want for homemade biscuits or scones.
- Using a 1 1/2 inch cookie scoop, scoop dough onto prepared sheets. I am able to get exactly 12 on each tray. They don't spread much at all.
- Sprinkle scooped cookies with sugar if desired.
- Bake one tray at a time for 24 minutes each. Cookies should just be getting golden around the edges and on the bottom.
- Remove trays from oven after 24 minutes. You can transfer cookies to cooling racks, but I usually just leave them on the trays and they very quickly disappear.
Notes
This recipe was adapted from Martha Stewart's recipe of the same name. I made some changes, but she certainly deserves the credit for this amazing recipe. The changes I made were omitting the extra sugar and lemon juice in the strawberries and adding vanilla as the flavoring. I also like to dice the strawberries a bit smaller.
These are best the first day you bake them, but they are still delicious the next day, you'll just lose a bit of the crunch around the edges.
Because of their biscuit-like texture, feel free to serve these for breakfast or brunch as well as dessert!
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 24 minutes
- Category: dessert, breakfast
- Method: baking