Strawberry Cheesecake Cookies - Butternut Bakery (2024)

These soft buttery cookies are baked with a puddle of strawberry preserves and topped with a dollop of cheesecake. They’re the ultimate strawberry cheesecake cookies that have all the taste of a strawberry cheesecake, just bite sized!

How to make strawberry jam cookies

The base of this recipe is a soft and buttery cookie topped with strawberry preserves. The two together create a delicious texture, with the sweetness of the cookie and slight tartness of the soft jam.

Better yet, making them is so easy! The cookie dough itself consists of pantry-staple ingredients:

• Unsalted butter
• Granulated and brown sugar
• Egg yolk
• Vanilla paste or extract
• All purpose flour
• Salt

All ingredients are combined to create a soft but moldable dough, perfect for creating jam filled cookies.

To prep them for baking, roll the dough into tablespoon-sized balls and place them about an inch apart on a cookie sheet. The cookies don’t grow too much once baked so they can be placed fairly close together.

The key here is to roll one cookie dough ball at a time, press, and scoop the next cookie dough ball. Working this way will prevent the cookie dough balls from drying out before you get the chance to press them.

To press, the best and easiest way is to use the back of a round teaspoon. If you don’t have one that’s perfectly round, you could use the end of a round wooden spoon, rubber spatula, or your thumb. Anything that will yield a look similar the picture below.

Gently press into the cookie, just before you reach the bottom of the pan. If the cookie starts to crack as you press, just use your fingers to mold it back together.

Add 1/2 tsp of preserves to the center of each cookie. Gently spread it so that it touches up against the inner rim of the indents.

Now they’re ready to bake! As they bake, both the cookies and them jam will spread. This allows the jam to thicken and releases an even deeper strawberry flavor.

How to make the silky cheesecake topping

To bring this cookie together, we need to add the delicious cheesecake dollop on top.

While the cookies cool, make the topping. This consists of a very short list of ingredients that you can mix by hand:

• Room temperature cream cheese
• Room temperature butter
• Powdered sugar
• Vanilla paste or extract

With the cream cheese and butter at room temperature, this makes it much easier to mix and ensures a really smooth texture. Mix all 4 ingredients together to create a thick glue-like consistency.

Before adding it on top of the cookies, it’s important that they are completely cooled. Otherwise the cheesecake will melt all over the cookie.

For best results, fill a piping bag with a round tip and squeeze little dollops on top of the cookies. If these tools aren’t available, you could also fill a ziplock bag with the cheesecake and snip off a corner to pipe it on top.

Cheesecake consistency

At room temperature, the cheesecake will hold its shape but it’s very soft and more like a frosting consistency.

If you prefer a thicker texture, pop the cookies in the fridge for about an hour to allow the topping to thicken and set.

Freeze dried strawberries

This is an optional topping and is really only there for aesthetic purposes. They do add a bit of extra strawberry flavor, but it won’t make or break the cookie!

If you do choose to add them, place the strawberries in a ziplock bag and use the bottom of your jam jar to crunch them into sprinkle-sized pieces. They’re super easy to break so it doesn’t take much effort.

They’re also fairly easy to find at your local grocery store, we just never really look for them! Trader Joe’s sells them, but you can also find freeze dried strawberries next to the nuts/seeds/trail mixes at most grocery stores. Even Target has them!

What is the best strawberry filling to use?

It’s important to use a strawberry filling that’s somewhat fluid. This helps to completely fill the cookie and they spread nice and even in the oven.

Try to use strawberry preserves over jams or jellies. Not only is it the perfect consistency, but it also has more chunks of actual strawberries giving you a stronger strawberry flavor. My go-to is always Bonne Maman.

How to store strawberry cheesecake cookies

Since both fruit and dairy are involved, these will need to be stored in the fridge in an air tight container. Since the topping is soft, try not to stack them on top of each other. The longer they chill, the thicker the cheesecake gets. They will last up to 5 days in the fridge.

For more strawberry desserts, check out my:

• Roasted Strawberry Cupcakes
• Fresh Strawberry Sheet Cake
• Chocolate Strawberry Hi-Hat Cupcakes
• Peanut Butter and Jelly Cheesecake Bars

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