These bright pink cookies are made with REAL strawberries! They’re extra fluffy, super moist, and loaded with strawberry flavor. I don’t know if you noticed but…they’re PINK! These are the perfect treat for any pink occasion! 
So! Valentine’s Day is on Saturday! That’s exciting, right? Anybody else excited?
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Okay! Moving right along…
I figured since love is in the air this time of year I would post a recipe for something that you might love. It is safe to say that I love these cookies, so I hope you do too. They are bright pink, which is kind of a funny color for a cookie, but they taste really good! Let me describe how they taste: let’s say you had a moist, fluffy, frosted strawberry cupcake in your hands. If you took that cupcake and flattened it in between your hands and shaped it into a round cookie, you would have a….mashed up, sticky, not-so-pretty strawberry cupcake cookie. However, it would still taste good! If you love the taste of strawberry cupcakes, but you’d prefer a sophisticated cookie over a messy cupcake, you will love this recipe! 
I have a confession. The only reason I’m beyond excited for Valentine’s Day this year is because I’ve convinced myself that my boyfriend is going to propose. I really shouldn’t get my hopes up, though. Any time we go out somewhere, I start to think it is going to happen. So it probably won’t happen. But I think about it all the time. It’s BAD.
That is all I am going to say about that.
Cookies! 
Fresh Strawberry Cookies
Ingredients:
- 8 fresh strawberries, stems removed
- 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 2 eggs
- 3 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 3/4 cup chopped pecans (optional)
- red food coloring
For the frosting:
- 3 oz box strawberry jello
- block of cream cheese, softened
- powdered sugar
- water
What to do:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees (F).
- Place strawberries in a blender or food processor and pulse until pureed or liquefied. Set aside. (If you don’t have those things, mash strawberries with a fork until they are a pulp.)
- In a mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar with an electric mixer until fluffy.
- Beat in eggs, one at a time.
- Add in pureed strawberries and mix until evenly blended.
- In a small bowl, mix together flour, salt, and baking soda with a fork.
- Add flour mixture to creamed mixture one cup at a time and mix well. (Batter will be thick.)
- Stir in pecans and 5-10 drops of red food coloring to the dough if you’d like.
- Drop tablespoonfuls onto greased cookie sheets and bake for 12-15 minutes at 350(F) until edges are slightly brown.
**While cookies are cooling, you can make a simple frosting!
- In a small bowl, blend together a block of cream cheese and a package of strawberry jello using an electric mixer.
- Beat powdered sugar into mixture and add drops of water until you reach desired frosting consistency.
- Frost cookies with a spoon, or place frosting in Ziploc bag, cut the corner, and decorate!
- ENJOY!
NOTES** Frosting these cookies is the key to making them exceptionally moist! You can create just about any frosting you want. I frosted mine in several different ways and stored them in a sealed container and they stayed moist until they were all gone! I also tried rolling some dough up into plastic wrap (like a tube) and threw it into the freezer to bake later. This works just as well! It’s kind of like slice and bake cookies from there! If you tend to like a little less sweet, opt for no frosting, but keep these cookies sealed up in storage for moisture!
Karlie and Oats 
These sound amazing. Have a wonderful valentine’s day with that great guy of yours!
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